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SEC and Small Reporting Companies

Entrepreneur's Playbook | Episode: 693 | Guests: Ryan Istre | 0
The SEC is expanding its definition of small reporting companies. Jen continues her discussion with Ryan Istre, an audit director and a member of the SEC Team at PKF Texas.

Jen:  This is the PKF Texas Entrepreneur’s Playbook.  I’m Jen Lemanski and I’m back with Ryan Istre, an Audit Director and a member of the PKF Texas SEC team.  Ryan, welcome back to the Playbook.

Ryan:  Thanks for having me Jen.

Jen:  So I’ve heard that the SEC has made some amendments about the definition of a smaller reporting company.  What do these companies need to know?

Ryan:  The SEC is in process of expanding the definition of what a small reporting company is.  The way a public company determines whether it’s a smaller reporting company is at June 30th of each year it has to calculate its public float.  Public float means how many common shares does the company have outstanding multiplied by the trading price of the shares on that date.  Historically $75 million was the cutoff, so if a company’s public float was less than $75 million it was considered a smaller reporting company.  So the changes that the SEC has made has increased the amount of public float to $250 million, so a lot more companies are going to fall under the definition of a smaller reporting company.

Jen:  So if they’re not actively traded what if there’s no public float?  How do they determine that?

Ryan:  That’s a good question.  The SEC has also included in the definition of a smaller company a smaller reporting company with no public float annual revenues less than $100 million.

Jen:  Okay.  Are there any benefits to this to smaller reporting companies?

Ryan:   Definitely.  In normal public company filings for accelerated filers you have to include 3 years of historical financial statement – 2 years of balance sheets, 3 years of income statements.  And in smaller reporting company rules you only have to include 2 years of historical income statements.  That doesn’t sound like a lot that they’re dropping off from the requirements, however in each of the financial statement footnotes and all of the sections of the NDNA for example, anything under 10 K, because of the amount of disclosures necessary for public companies, dropping off an entire year is actually…

Jen:  That’s huge.

Ryan:  Definitely, definitely it’s a big help.  The SEC staff actually assumed that about 960 filers will be able to benefit from these expanded rules of smaller reporting companies.

Jen:  That’s great.  We’ll get you back to talk about it a little bit more.

Ryan:  Sure.

Jen:  Thank you.  For more about this topic visit PKFTexas.com/SECdesk.  This has been another Thought Leader production brought to you by PKF Texas The Entrepreneur’s Playbook, tune in next week for another chapter.

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