Update: The November 2 XBRL US SEC Filer Workshop has been cancelled.

XBRL US is hosting a one-day workshop for SEC filers on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at the AICPA offices in New York City. Topics covered by the workshop will include the changes to financial reporting that regulators are proposing, including the permitted use of Inline XBRL and revisions to disclosure requirements.

As per law, the SEC has made their annual review of the fee rates and changed the filing fee rate that public companies and other issuers must pay to register their securities with the Commission. Effective 10/01/2016 to 9/30/2017, the fee rate is $115.90 per $1,000,000. Filing fees are required for filings made pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 13(e) and 14(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This is an increase from last year’s rate of $100.70 per $1,000,000.

On September 19, 2016, EDGAR 16.3 was released by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release contained changes to Form ABS-EE and filing changes for Forms N-CR, 13H-I and 13H-T.

Welcome to the Legato Developers Corner! This is a weekly blog designed to help developers use Legato to customize GoFiler to their specific needs. Legato is a structured, comprehensive programming interface that can wrap around GoFiler and interact with numerous document sources and destinations, including the internet, cloud storage systems, and databases. Legato can automate tasks, like different aspects of a document’s edit cycle, as well as offer enhanced document control, data loading procedures and validation, and project process control. With Legato, you as a programmer have the ability to adjust, customize, and interface GoFiler with other applications and programming languages, access the EDGAR System, and the capacity to adapt GoFiler to function exactly how you want is virtually endless.

On August 31, the SEC proposed amendments to require registrants to include a hyperlink to each exhibit listed in the exhibit index of registration statements and periodic and current reports. This proposed rule would also require such forms to be filed in HTML because ASCII does not support hyperlinking.