Category Archives: Vintage Filings

XBRL Webinar: Preparing for the 2013 XBRL Taxonomy ~ Advice from Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

Vintage Filings is pleased to announce that they are hosting a free educational webcast to help public companies understand the new complexities of the 2013 XBRL US-GAAP Taxonomy. This engaging discussion will cover many points essential for the 2013 SEC filing process including changes from the 2012 to the 2013 taxonomy, insight on avoiding filing errors and understanding Detailed Footnote tagging.

Pre-register now!

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SPECIAL PRESENTATION FROM:

VF_MatherneJ. Louis Matherne, Chief of Taxonomy Development
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

J. Louis Matherne was named Chief of Taxonomy Development for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in April 2010. In this role, Mr. Matherne leads the FASB team responsible for maintaining and updating the U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy as required for use by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) public company registrants.

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VF_RON2YOUR HOST:

Host: Ronald Schechter, Manager XBRL
Vintage Filings

Ronald Schechter is Manager of XBRL for Vintage Filings since May 2011. Ron is the in-house subject matter expert for XBRL at Vintage. Ron previously consulted at the SEC on the XBRL project prior to the mandate in 2009. Subsequently Ron served as a project analyst at FASB during the first wave of XBRL filings in 2010. Ron currently serves on the XBRL.US Domain Steering Committee. Ron is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in New York State.

Please join us for this free educational event!

Vintage Filings Celebrates 10th Anniversary at National Investor Relations Institute Annual Conference

#1 EDGAR and XBRL filing newswire solution for integrated SEC compliance: eases workflow for public companies

NEW YORK, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Vintage Filings, the financial printing, EDGAR and XBRL filing division of PR Newswire, today announced they will be presenting their solutions with their parent company at the National Investor Relations Institute Annual Conference, June 9 – 12 in Hollywood, FL.

Scott Mozarsky, PR Newswire’s Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer commented, “PR Newswire acquired Vintage Filings over 5 years ago, and the purchase has been terrific for our clients and prospects. For Vintage Filings’ clients, PR Newswire added a complete, new layer of professional support including expanded offices for IPO drafting sessions, deeper technical resources and richer industry knowledge,” continued Mozarsky.

“For PR Newswire clients, Vintage Filings dramatically simplified their regulatory filing workflow. Saving the CFO and IRO time is the most valuable benefit of all.”

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A VIDEO TOUR OF VINTAGE FILINGS

Initially, Vintage Filings began as a straight-forward EDGAR filing service. However, in reaction to the scathing reports of the egregious billing practices of many financial printers that went public in the mid-2000s, Vintage Filings executives realized that their core values of accurate work with a predictable fee structure was needed for registrations’ drafting and transactions filing work and XBRL as well.

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Their SEC filing business model broke the stranglehold that many clients felt the legacy brick-and-mortar financial printers held on them. Importantly, with Vintage Filings, companies and law firms can predict and exactly budget their transactions’ costs.

“Over the past 10 years, the financial printing industry has undergone an incredible transformation, driven by many factors including SEC regulations and of course the internet,” said Liam Power , the firm’s Senior Vice President. “Proudly, within those 10 years, Vintage Filings has revolutionized the industry – growing to become one of the top three SEC filing solutions in North America making PR Newswire the number one SEC filing newswire solution. As one measure of how far we have grown, last year we processed over 250 S-1s, S-11s, S-4s and other transactions.”

The company now has sales and service office is New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Chicago. Click here to request more information about any of their services.

About Vintage Filings
PR Newswire’s Vintage Filings division is a full-service financial filing and printing firm and a leading partner for all your XBRL filing needs. With more than 4,500 public company clients, Vintage is one of the fastest growing compliance firms nationwide. Vintage partners with its clients to provide the knowledge and service necessary to meet the SEC’s ever-changing filing regulations. Vintage Filings provides high-quality, cost-effective compliance filings and production services, including EDGAR Filings, typesetting, XBRL tagging, section 16 filings, investment management services, drafting sessions, virtual data rooms (VDR) and more.

About PR Newswire
PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 59 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content — from rich media to online video to multimedia — and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.

CONTACT
Bradley H. Smith
Director of Marketing, Investor Relations and SEC Compliance Solutions
201 942 7157
Bradley.smith@prnewswire.com

For IPOs and mergers, Rich Unger is far more fastidious than Felix

Ok. Felix Unger is a fictional character, but Rich’s pedigree for transactions is pure fact and the level of expertise and urgency he brings to executing a transaction is the stuff of legend.

Vintage Filings’ new offices, now within our NYC PR Newswire office – provides law firms and their corporate clients the physical space needed for an in-house drafting session… or as Rich discusses, we can host a drafting session from any office. Whatever works best for the client. 

Please click here to hear more of Rich’s views on our business.

Please click here to request details about our transaction services – including our “no surprises” fee structure. (that’s always a crowd pleaser).

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There’s nothing old about being Vintage – Scott Mozarsky, EVP & CCO, PR Newswire

I am paraphrasing in the title a bit ( we’re allowed to do that in marketing ) but in this 24 second snippet, you will see how much Vintage Filings has grown due to the extra oomph of being a PR Newswire division.

We’ve moved the Vintage Filings’ offices completely within our NYC PR Newswire office – providing law firms and their corporate clients the physical space needed for an in-house drafting session. Last year, we executed 250 transactions – that’s an average of one each business day.

Please click here to hear more of Scott’s views on our business.

Please click here to request details about our transaction services – including our “no surprises” fee structure. (that’s always a crowd pleaser)

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Meet our SVP Liam Power (for 38 powerful seconds)

Curious to know why law firms and corporations are switching their transactions and IPO registration work to Vintage Filings? Our SVP Liam Power explains why in just 38 seconds. SPOILER ALERT: he has an engaging Irish lilt guaranteed to woo your business.

.Listen to more from Liam on our new video highlighting Vintage Filings’ in-house drafting workspace and team.

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Vintage Filings Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Video Showcasing SEC Transaction Services for IPO and M&A Drafting Sessions

Company executives attribute “one transaction per business day” growth to document accuracy and transparent billing practices

NEW YORK, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Vintage Filings, the financial printing, EDGAR, and XBRL filing division of PR Newswire, today announced their 10th Anniversary of providing SEC compliance solutions to law firms and public companies. In celebration of the anniversary and to showcase Vintage Filings’ new in-house drafting workspace, the company released a brief video.

WATCH VIDEO HERE

“Over the past 10 years, the financial printing industry has undergone an incredible transformation, driven by many factors including SEC regulations and of course the internet,” said Liam Power , the firm’s Senior Vice President. “Proudly, within those 10 years, Vintage Filings has revolutionized the industry – growing to become one of the top three SEC filing solutions in North America.

As one measure of how much we have grown, last year we processed over 250 S-1s, S-11s, S-4s and other transactions. That’s one each business day.”

VIDEO_liam_large

Initially, Vintage Filings began as a straightforward EDGAR filing service. However, in reaction to the scathing reports of the egregious billing practices of many financial printers that went public in the mid-2000s, Vintage Filings executives realized that their core values of accurate work with a predictable fee structure was needed for registrations’ drafting and transactions filing work as well. Their business model for S-1, S-3, S-11 and other corporate transactions broke the stranglehold that many clients felt the legacy brick-and-mortar financial printers held on them. Importantly, with Vintage Filings, companies and law firms can predict and exactly budget their transactions’ costs.

Scott Mozarsky, PR Newswire’s Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer commented, “PR Newswire acquired Vintage Filings over 5 years ago, and the purchase has been terrific for our clients and prospects. For Vintage Filings’ clients, PR Newswire added a complete, new layer of professional support including expanded offices for IPO drafting sessions, deeper technical resources and richer industry knowledge. For example, moving beyond their initial S-1 filing, IPOs will have the full strength of our investor relations services to guide all their shareholder communications and disclosures,” continued Mozarsky.

“For PR Newswire clients, Vintage Filings dramatically simplified their regulatory filing workflow. Saving the CFO and IRO time is the most valuable benefit of all.”

The company now has sales and service offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Chicago. Click hereto request more information about any of their services.

About Vintage Filings
PR Newswire’s Vintage Filings division is a full-service financial filing and printing firm and a leading partner for all your XBRL filing needs. With more than 4,500 public company clients, Vintage is one of the fastest growing compliance firms nationwide. Vintage partners with its clients to provide the knowledge and service necessary to meet the SEC’s ever-changing filing regulations. Vintage Filings provides high-quality, cost-effective compliance filings and production services, including EDGAR Filings, typesetting, XBRL tagging, section 16 filings, investment management services, drafting sessions, virtual data rooms (VDR) and more.

About PR Newswire
PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 59 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content — from rich media to online video to multimedia — and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.

CONTACT and MEDIA INTERVIEWS

Bradley H. Smith
Director of Marketing, Investor Relations and SEC Compliance Solutions
201 942 7157
Bradley.smith@prnewswire.com

SOURCE Vintage Filings

XBRL 2011 U.S. GAAP Taxonomy to retire on April 29th

Beginning April 29, 2013, the EDGAR system will begin accepting submissions with XBRL exhibits based on the 2013 U.S. GAAP taxonomy. You can read the entire 2013 taxonomy here. NOTE: scroll to the bottom of the welcome page and accept the FASB policy.

On that date, the EDGAR system will no longer accept submissions with XBRL exhibits based on the 2011 U.S. GAAP taxonomy. It will continue to accept 2012 U.S. GAAP taxonomy.

PASTURE

In addition to the new taxonomy, this is a fine time to have a conversation with your internal and external XBRL teams about quality. As posted prior…XBRL quality is critical: errors inhibit investor adoption of your data ( your investment in XBRL) and you will be legally liable for errors in your filing.

KPMG sums up the most common errors.  Remember, these are NOT errors in “your numbers.” These are back-room XBRL faults. The most common mistake across all filing is the mis-tagging of negative values. Basically, this is a typo. Be watchful as its a little counter-intuitive for accounting.

Are you satisfied with your XBRL process and workflow? Our fleXBRL program balances costs and process (without sacrificing quality) to match your budget.

What is your XBRL workflow wish? Tell us here.

Have a great day.

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Happy Birthday JOBS Act “Confidential” IPO

S1CAKEThanks to an article today by Emily Chasan, Senior Editor at the WSJ’s CFO Journal, I was reminded that the Confidential Registration provision of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) is one year old.

This JOBS provision created a confidential SEC review procedure for IPO registration statements of “emerging growth companies” prior to their first registered sale of common equity. Generally, an emerging growth company is an issuer that has less than $1 billion in total annual gross revenues.

Emily reports that since the provision went into effect, 63% of the IPOs were confidential.

The phrase “confidential” is misleading, particularly in an industry that is dedicated to transparency. “Confidential” tends to bring up imagery of James Bond, insider whispers, dark pool trading and pump-n-dump ninjas.

Nothing of the sort. With a confidential IPO registration, all draft IPO registration statements and subsequent amendments are filed with the SEC for nonpublic review. Like all S-1s we submit for clients, the SEC is carefully reviewing the filing.

We’ve helped several companies with their in-house drafting session and confidential S-1 transaction. From our side of the discussion, “confidential” simply means “the elimination of the media frenzy and market speculation.” This has given all the parties involved the breathing room and focus they need to execute this intense, company altering step.

I assume most of you have never participated or seen an IPO drafting session take place. We held a very large one last week for a new Nasdaq issuer. Twelve+ lawyers, investment bankers and company executives sequestered in our conference room for two+ days laboriously dotting every “i” and crossing every “t” on the most important document a company will ever make. Making this process and filing nonpublic allows the all parties involved to be 100% on point, not distracted by market or pundit speculation.

The charts below compare a much hyped IPO with a confidential filed IPO. Both Nasdaq listed. The company on the left had to manage expectations even before they were a public issuer.  

IPOCHART .

As you see, there is nothing confidential about the success of the company on the right.

Have a great day.

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Webcast today: the changing of US GAAP Taxonomy guard for XBRL

Once the 2013 US GAAP is finalized, you cannot file in 2011 GAAP. You can still file with 2012 GAAP and of course the new 2013 GAAP. This has impact on your XBRL taxonomy tags.

To help with this, there is an important webcast today that will provide an overview of changes in the 2013 US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy with expanded coverage of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) new series of XBRL Implementation Guides. In addition, the SEC staff will discuss current XBRL filing issues.

1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time

CLICK HERE to read the official description and register. It is free and offers CPE credit if you are eligible.

CLICK HERE to learn about our XBRL solutions.

FASB

Have a great day.

March’s recap: Investor relations and SEC compliance posts

IR blog review

Below are the March stories from this blog. Have you downloaded our new white paper report “How Investors Consume Investor Relations Content?” The survey is comprised of over 8,700 responses. Click here to download the report.

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Sector3 – XBRL in the 3rd Dimension wins 2013 XBRL Challenge

A quick Twitter refresh for investor relations

If you (can’t) make it here, you’ll make it anywhere (free, via the XBRL Challenge webcast)

Infographic & question #17: Where do you regularly view SEC files?

Last week’s IPOs and Transactions

IR Awards honor Mary Beth Kissane with Lifetime Achievement in investor relations, corporations rewarded for best practices

Winner of XBRL Challenge contest to be announced 3/27

Last week’s IPOs and Transactions

The FASB 2013 US GAAP Taxonomy (UGT) is almost upon us for XBRL

Deutsche Bank Depositary Receipts to hold its 2nd virtual investor conference (via our RetailInvestorConference.com engine)

Je pense que c’est merveilleux que l’App Chambre IR est désormais disponible en plusieurs langues

Experts discuss the Practical v. Perfect Worlds of RegFD and mobile app(lications)

Free webinar: Regulating Mobile- Reg FD and Disclosure in the age of the app

Infographic & question #16: Do you receive corporate news releases directly from the company via IR email alerts?

Last week’s IPOs and Transactions

Goldilocks and the Three XBRLs

Video: How OTC Markets issuers can send news and target investors directly from their OTC Markets desktop

I asked what time it was, not how the damn watch works: an XBRL metaphor

Last week’s IPOs and Transactions

REIT Companies Join to Webcast Live for Special March 7th RetailInvestorConferences.com Event

Have a great day.