Regulation S-X
 
Rule 4-01
Form, Order, and Terminology
a. Financial statements
should be filed in such form and order. and should use such generally
accepted terminology, as will best indicate their significance and character
in the light of the provisions applicable thereto. The information required
with respect to any statement shall be furnished as a minimum requirement
to which shall be added such further material information as is necessary
to make the required statements, in the light of the circumstances under
which they are made, not misleading.
1. Financial statements filed
with the Commission which are not prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles will be presumed to be misleading or inaccurate,
despite footnote of other disclosures, unless the Commission has otherwise
provided. This article and other articles of Regulation
S-X provide clarification of certain disclosures which must be included
in any event, in financial statements filed with the Commission.
2. In all filings of foreign private issuers (see
Rule
405), except as stated otherwise in the applicable form, the financial
statements may be prepared according to a comprehensive body of accounting
principles other than those generally accepted in the United States if
a reconciliation to United States generally accepted accounting principles
and the provisions of Regulation S-X of the
type specified in Item 18 of Form 20-F is also filed as part of the financial
statements. Alternatively, the financial statements may be prepared according
to United States generally accepted accounting principles.
3.
i. Notwithstanding the effective dates set forth in Statement
of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based
Payment (''Statement No. 123R''), financial statements shall be
prepared in accordance with Statement No. 123R beginning with:
A. The first interim or annual reporting period of the
registrant's first fiscal year beginning on or after June 15, 2005,
provided the registrant does not file as a small business issuer; and
B. The first interim or annual reporting period of the
registrant's first fiscal year beginning on or after December 15, 2005,
provided the registrant files as a small business issuer.
ii. For periods prior to the effective dates set forth in this
paragraph, both Statement No. 123R and Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation
(October 1995), shall be considered to be generally accepted accounting
principles.
b. All money amounts
required to be shown in financial statements may be expressed in whole
dollars or multiples thereof, as appropriate:
Provided,
1.
That, when stated in other than whole dollars, an indication to that
effect is inserted immediately beneath the caption of the statement or
schedule, at the top of the money columns, or at an appropriate point
in narrative material.
c.
Negative amounts (red figures) shall be shown in
a manner which clearly distinguishes the negative attribute. When determining
methods of display, consideration should be given to the limitations of
reproduction and microfilming processes.
Regulatory History |
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45 FR 63669, Sept. 25, 1980 47 FR 54767, Dec. 6, 1982
SEC Release 33-8565: 14 FR 26833, Apr. 21, 2005 |
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