RR Donnelley offers a selection of reference publications to help make it easier for you to meet SEC filing requirements. Simply click on your selection in the list of publications below to view the PDF file.

2009 SEC Calendar 

The RR Donnelley Financial Services Group is pleased to provide our 2009 SEC Calendar to assist you in preparing for EDGAR filing deadlines, peak periods, and SEC and market holidays.

2009 SEC Calendar - Asia 

RR Donnelley Roman Financial is pleased to provide our 2009 SEC Calendar to assist your business in preparing for SEC filing deadlines and holidays in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.

2009 SEC Important Dates to Remember 

A single sheet reference for SEC filing dates to assist you in preparing for EDGAR filing deadlines.

Alcoa Case Study: Implementing a Process for XBRL Reporting

This case study reviews how one capital markets company, Alcoa, is implementing a process for XBRL reporting to comply with the SEC mandate.

Annual Meeting Handbook 

Every public corporation in the United States is required by its charter documents, the corporate law of its state of incorporation and the federal securities laws to hold a meeting of shareholders at least once each year. The Annual Meeting Handbook provides a general overview of the State and Federal Laws and Stock Exchange Rules related to these required annual meetings of shareholders.

Corporate Responsibilities of Public Companies 

This publication has been written to acquaint public companies in the United States about their obligations under the corporate governance regulatory scheme that exists after the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. It also informs companies and their officers, directors and shareholders about their SEC reporting obligations, the restrictions on trading in the companies' stock and the rules related to document retention. Finally, this publication seeks to familiarize companies with the process of going private or going dark in the event of a determination that the costs and burdens of being a reporting public company listed on an exchange outweigh the benefits of being a reporting company.

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted comprehensive amendments to its executive officer and director compensation disclosure rules. The substantial changes to the rules will likely increase the attention and scrutiny the SEC, investors and the public apply to proxy statements and annual reports during ongoing proxy and annual reporting seasons. This revised handbook provides an overview of the most significant changes and requirements through mid-February 2007 under the new rules and guidance and offers practical advice to help companies understand, and comply with, the new disclosure requirements.

Fiduciary Duties and Other Responsibilities of Corporate Directors and Officers 

This Handbook is designed to assist directors and officers of public and private corporations in fulfilling their duties to their corporate constituents. The Handbook is intended to provide both an authoritative resource and a practical hands-on tool for addressing various situations faced by directors and officers. To that end, the Handbook combines a discussion of the law and case studies and practice pointers that illustrate application of the law to the real world challenges faced each day by directors and officers of U.S. corporations.

This book prepared by Stradley Ronan and published by RR Donnelley provides the text of the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act and the rules adopted thereunder in convenient handbook form.

In this special report, produced in cooperation with the Wharton Private Equity Club, Knowledge@Wharton looks at how funds are adapting to changes in the credit environment, what opportunities exist in the developed markets of Europe and Japan, and the ways that proposed changes in taxation may affect the industry. RR Donnelley is a proud sponsor of the Wharton Private Equity Review.

This manual provides companies with a step-by-step guide to the process of becoming publicly held. It also details compliance obligations and strategic and management systems imperatives that are, among other things, required in order to reliably and repeatedly access public capital as a company progresses from newly public to a mature issuer. This manual can help companies, whether based in the United States or overseas, anticipate the substantially increased challenges of a more demanding investor community and rigorous regulatory environment and plan accordingly.

This book prepared by Stradley Ronan and published by RR Donnelley provides a comprehensive overview of the various registration forms and disclosure requirements for mutual funds. Extensive guidance is given as to the type and quality of disclosure necessary in a mutual fund's prospectus and registration statement. This book has been the standard industry text on fund disclosure for over 2 decades.

SEC Handbook

The SEC Handbook two volume set contains the basic federal securities laws, as well as the principal SEC rules and forms under those laws and other related laws and regulations, and are intended to serve as a basic reference source for lawyers, securities professionals, corporate officers, and others who have occasion to deal with questions of securities laws. This completely new and updated two-volume set, edited by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, includes the following:

• Securities Acts of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934
• Rules and regulations of general applicability and the principal forms under the 1933 and 1934 Acts
• SEC's Rules of Practice, Rules on Informal and Other Procedures and Rules Relating to Investigations
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

This book is only available in print. For a copy, please contact your sales representative.

SEC Proposes XBRL Mandate

This white paper on XBRL for capital markets examines the requirements of the SEC proposed rules, provides a brief overview of the XBRL technology, and reviews a comprehensive solution to comply with the new mandate.

What You Need to Know About XBRL for '40 Act Companies

This memorandum is intended to review SEC release 33-8929; IC-28298 regarding interactive data for mutual fund companies.

XBRL Reference Guide: 1940 Act Companies

This reference guide is intended to give you some background on XBRL for the investment markets and has been prepared to show you how you can implement XBRL in your company.

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