A BRIEF TOUR OF EDGAR & SEC.GOV

How to Find:

Company Filings

Filing Forms

Rules & Comments

Abigail H. Tilden • GSLIS 786 • October 17, 2007

About the SEC and EDGAR

Securities and Exchange Commission: The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange

Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.1

Collects, records, and disseminates information on publicly traded companies in the United States

EDGAR: Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval

system Allows free searching and retrieval of all SEC filings

1. http://www.sec.gov/about/whatwedo.shtml

Searching companies on EDGAR

http://www.sec.gov/index.htm

Searching Companies on EDGAR

Searching Companies on EDGAR

Searching Companies on EDGAR

Searching Companies on EDGAR

EDGAR results for Nextel

EDGAR results for Nextel

Finding Filing Forms

Finding Filing Forms Also available in PDF form at:

http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/forms/edgform.pdf

Finding Filing Forms

Rules and Comments (And why we care)

Proposed Rules

Sample Proposed Rule

http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2007/ia-2652.pdf

Proposed Rules

Proposed Rules - Comments

Final Rule Releases

Final Rules

Questions?

SEC website:

www.sec.gov

Contact me at: ahtilden@gmail.com