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Anytime, Anywhere, ..

Rajendra P. SrivastavaPhD (Physics) & PhD (Accounting)

EY Professor of Accounting and Information SystemsSchool of Business, The University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS 66045

Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]

Cell Phone: 785-218-4409

SeekEdgar website: https://www.seekedgar.com:8443/

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Introduces

Anytime, Anywhere, …SEC Filings and PCAOB

Reports at your finger tips in seconds

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“I’ve really appreciated working with SeekEdgar.

The flexibility and speed of both the search engine and customer service has made data collection easier and more thorough.

Finding examples for my financial statement analysis class is also a pleasure.

I recommend trying SeekEdgar for anybody looking for data from SEC filings.”

Professor Michael MinnisUniversity of Chicago

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Some of our customers• McMaster University• Rutgers University – Newark• University of Arizona• University of Chicago• University of Illinois-Chicago• University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign• University of Kansas• University of South Florida• University of Sydney, Sydney• University of Texas-Dallas• Yale University

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Four Dimensions1. Search: Specific Issues/Concerns

2. Obtain: Data not available

3. Perform: Textual Analyses

4. Download: All Searched Data


• Good news to share: one of my colleagues, Tom Kubick, had his paper “The Effects of Regulatory Scrutiny on Tax Avoidance: An Examination of SEC Comment Letters”, co-authored with Dan Lynch, Mike Mayberry, and Tom Omer, accepted in The Accounting Review (forthcoming), using 100% data from SeekEdgar.

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1. Search SEC Filings and PCAOB Reports

in Seconds

For issues and concerns(e.g., litigation, patent infringement, wrongful termination, we may never be profitable, etc.)

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2. ObtainInformation/Data

not available from any sourceExamples: Executives bios, Business address, fiscal year end, Chief Executive officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Executive compensation,, unique balance sheet items, who signed 10Ks and 10Qs, etc.

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3. Performtextual analyses

Word counter, Sentence counter,

Proximity Counter with order,

Word distribution,

and six readability indices

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4. DownloadAll the searched datain HTML and Excel Files

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Power Features

1. Boolean Logic with multiple phrases

(words like ‘a’, ‘in’, ‘if’, ‘no’, ‘of’, etc.)

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Power Features

2. Proximity Searchtwo words within any number of words

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Power Features

3. DisplayFew words before

&Few words after a Phrase/word

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Power Features

4. CountersMultiple phrases, words, and sentences

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Power Features

5. Proximity Counter with Order

Two words within few words with order

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Power Features

6. Built in Readability Metrics

(Six readability indices)

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Database Consists of

14 Million

SEC Filings & PCAOB Reports

(1994-2016, daily updated)

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20 Million DocumentsSearch Separately• Annual Report, Quarterly Report,• Various Exibits & Items,• Disclosures Reports,• Press Releases & Conference Calls, • PCAOB Reports, etc.

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Cloud TechnologyUse your iPad or iPhone

to query the system

Get results in seconds

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No software

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No programming

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Don’t waste your time

Learning programming!

Use that time to be creative!


Searchby

Paragraph

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Searchby

Table

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Searchby

Footnote

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Searchby

MD&A

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Searchby

Audit Report

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Searchby

SOX 404 Reports

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Unique Data Sets

1. Subsidiaries database (Who owns who)

by year, by country, along with their addresses

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Unique Data Sets

2. Conference calls transcripts

who said what?

(22 years with daily updates)

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Unique Data Sets3. Specifics from 10K

• Business Address & Tax ID• Fiscal Year End

• Word & Sentence counts,• Readability Indices, etc.

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Unique Data Sets4. Many more in Progress

(Keep in Touch)

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This is better

than

anything

You have ever seen!


It is truly Incredible!


Knowledge, Imagination, and Creativity

will drive the future research,

not the canned data


Please send me a note at [email protected] for

ID and Password if you don’t have one already



Some Examples

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Example: “We may never become profitable” with GC Opinions by Year


Example: – Graph of Going ConcernOpinions by Year

Anytime, Anywhere, ..Example 7a – Graph of Going Concern

Opinions by Year

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Power FeaturesSearch with few words before

&

few words after

a phrase/word

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Obtain Specific Information

Business Address

Fiscal Yearend

Etc.

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Power FeaturesProximity Search

Two words within any number of words

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Executive Compensation

Executives Bios

Any Specific Data

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Executive Compensation Tables from DEF 14A


Executive Bios


Count multiple phrases/words in a documentfor multiple companies for multiple years


Competition Metric for Five companies for 10 years


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MSFT Smog Index

Enron Smog Index


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MSFT Gunning-Fog Index

Enron Gunning-Fog Index


Download output

in

Excel Spreadsheet

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Thanks!

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