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A securities class action ( SCA ), or securities fraud class action, is a lawsuit filed by investors who bought or sold a company's publicly traded securities within a specific period of time (known as a “class period”) and suffered economic injury as a result of violations of the securities laws . In cases involving misleading statements ...
t. e. Forensic accounting, forensic accountancy or financial forensics is the specialty practice area of accounting that investigates whether firms engage in financial reporting misconduct, [ 1] or financial misconduct within the workplace by employees, officers or directors of the organization. [ 2] Forensic accountants apply a range of skills ...
Regulation S-K is a prescribed regulation under the US Securities Act of 1933 that lays out reporting requirements for various SEC filings used by public companies. Companies are also often called issuers (issuing or contemplating issuing shares), filers (entities that must file reports with the SEC) or registrants (entities that must register (usually shares) with the SEC).
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The primary purpose of the SEC is to enforce the law against market manipulation. [ 5][ 6]: 2. In addition to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which ...
Depository Trust Company ( DTC ), founded in 1973, is a New York corporation that performs the functions of a central securities depository as part of the US National Market System. [ 3] DTC annually settles transactions worth hundreds of trillions of dollars, processes hundreds of millions of book-entry deliveries, and custodies millions of ...
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (also called the Exchange Act, ' 34 Act, or 1934 Act) ( Pub. L. 73–291, 48 Stat. 881, enacted June 6, 1934, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 78a et seq.) is a law governing the secondary trading of securities ( stocks, bonds, and debentures) in the United States of America. [ 1]
Wells notice. A Wells notice is a letter that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sends to people or firms at the conclusion of an SEC investigation that states the SEC is planning to bring an enforcement action against them. The notice informs the people or the firm in question that the SEC has concluded that they should be ...
A replication of Martineau (2022). The efficient-market hypothesis ( EMH) [ a] is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information. A direct implication is that it is impossible to "beat the market" consistently on a risk-adjusted basis since market prices should only react to new information.