On August 24, 2017, the SEC announced a fee rate of $124.50 per million dollars for the 2018 fiscal year. This is the fee public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities with the Commission.

Starting as early as next month, accelerated filers will need to comply with new hyperlinking rules adopted by the SEC earlier this year. These form amendments now require companies who file registration statements or reports subject to the exhibit requirements under Item 601 of Regulation S-K or who file Forms F-10 or F-20 to include a hyperlink to each exhibit listed in the filing’s exhibit index. This is intended to make it simpler for investors and other interested parties to locate the exhibits included or referenced in a filing.

The SEC recently released draft technical specifications for two new forms: Form N-CEN and Form N-PORT. With the upcoming release of EDGAR 17.3 (scheduled to be released September 11), these new forms will be implemented for testing.

The SEC has issued two releases regarding revenue recognition with an additional Staff Accounting Bulletin released by the SEC staff to update interpretive guidance regarding revenue recognition.

XBRL US will be offering a second IFRS Taxonomy Deep Dive Webinar on August 23rd at 3:00 PM EST. This webinar will cover the IFRS Taxonomy and SEC rules requiring foreign private issuers to file their financials in XBRL format.

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has published their Proposed Update 1 to the IFRS taxonomy. These updates pertain to IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts. A public comment period has begun and will end on September 18th, 2017.

The XBRL US Center for Data Quality has begun a public review period on July 19th, 2017, for the fifth set of proposed rules to provide guidance and aid for issuers in identifying errors in their XBRL SEC filings. The Data Quality Committee rules aim to help filers limit mistakes and avoid data inconsistencies that can adversely affect analysis of reported financial information.

On July 17, 2017, EDGAR 17.2 was released by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release contained changes that added new fields to a number of forms that designate whether a registrant is an Emerging Growth Company and to inform the SEC as to whether the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards. Other changes affect a number of forms, including Form D, Form CFPortal, Form 17HACON, and the exhibit document for Form ABS-EE.

On August 1, 2017, new rules that require funds to describe their securities lending activities will go into effect.

On June 29, 2017, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance announced that it will permit all companies to submit draft registration statements relating to initial public offerings for review on a non-public basis. In addition to IPOs, this process will be available to most other offerings made during a company’s first year after entering the public reporting system.

On June 20th, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission named Robert Evans III as the Deputy Director in the Division of Corporation Finance.

Through Novaworks Submission Service (NSS), it’s possible to automatically schedule filings. This is an extremely handy tool to help streamline your submission process, as not only can you prepare your filing in advance, you can also have GoFiler send it to the SEC for you and notify you and your production team of the filing’s status.

In March, the SEC introduced proposed changes to include Inline XBRL Tagging in financial filings. We covered these proposed amendments in this blog post. The public comment period recently ended on May 16th, and the comments are available to read here. XBRL US offered one such comment on the proposed requirements to include Inline XBRL in financial filings, and in it expressed agreement that inclusion on Inline XBRL will help to improve the quality of reported structured financial data while reducing the burden on filers.

On Thursday, June 8th, the House of Representatives passed the Financial Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers, and Entrepreneurs Act (the Financial CHOICE Act) along mostly partisan lines. This act would reverse or change many of the reforms of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was passed into law in 2010 in response to the financial issues seen in the Great Recession.

Filers must comply with the amendments to the registration form used by open-end funds (Form N-1A) that require funds to describe their procedures for redeeming fund shares starting today, June 1, 2017.