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MGT 239: Topics in Accounting - Financial Statement Analysis: Financials & SEC Filings

Here is the resource page for the comparative financial statement analysis project.

How do I find at least five years' worth of public company financials?

The Mgt 239 assignment specifies using the Investor Relations section of each company’s website to access its SEC filings (10-Ks).

How do I find the SEC filings for my companies?

These resources provide alternative ways to get the SEC filings, fyi.

You can go right to the SEC’s EDGAR database of public company filings, http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm.

Mergent Online,  houses links to the SEC filings via http://uclibs.org/PID/115823 . If you use the ‘Government Filings’ tab, you can download these filings easily into excel or to grab any graphics for your presentations

 

Which SEC filings give me the most relevant information for my analysis?

The 10-K is a good place to be thorough. Especially check out the footnotes to the financials and the Management Discussion.

ARS —the annual report; SC-13 changes in beneficial ownership, S-8 changes in employee benefit plans, DEF 14 proxy series. For a complete list of the forms and what they cover see http://www.sec.gov/about/forms/secforms.htm

 

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