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Topic: Earnings Releases

SEC Emphasizes Meaningful Disclosure Amid COVID-19 Uncertainties

In a Statement (available here) on April 8, 2020, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and Corporation Finance Division Director Bill Hinman supplemented earlier SEC guidance (discussed here) to emphasize the importance of disclosures by public companies about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their operations, financial condition and liquidity and their plans for handling those effects.

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SEC Provides COVID-19 Disclosure Guidance

The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued new COVID-19 disclosure guidance on March 25, 2020. This follows earlier guidance and relief offered by the Staff. (See the links here, here and here, for example.) The SEC is encouraging thoughtful, tailored and widely disseminated disclosure by affected companies, even in the absence of a specific line item requirement.

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Earnings Releases, Non-GAAP Financial Measures and SEC Enforcement: Pay Attention to Your Headings and Bullet Points

On December 26, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) entered a Cease-and-Desist Order (see here) against ADT Inc. (“ADT”) pursuant to Section 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) based on ADT’s failure to give equal or greater prominence to comparable GAAP financial measures in two of its earnings releases containing non-GAAP financial measures.

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