An 8-K is a formal SEC complaint filing which shouts out major events inside of a company, like a CEO being caught on camera doin' the (very) nasty with a goat, or a company buying another, or being bought, or experiencing a meaningful quarterly earnings miss.
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Finance: What are a 10K and 10Q?57 Views
finance a la shmoop what are 10K and 10Q filings well as the pros say 10Q
very much yeah you know we had to go there sorry well they're just filings a [Girl filing her fingernails]
different kind of filings legal filings papers or data
well the 10K is the annual report and the 10Q is the quarterly report their
note the Q in there yeah very clever naming their people well we have no idea
why the K is there like shouldn't it have been a 10A fling equals annual
anyway the filings contain the key elements that report to shareholders the [Man giving presentation to shareholders]
progress or lack thereof that the company has made in the period it's
reporting and these apply to public companies people privates don't
necessarily file... well the K the Q have to contain an updated income statement [Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement appear]
balance sheet and cash flow statement along with tons of notes on whatever
business metrics the company regularly reports the number of people made sick
by the lemonade the number a coal miner Barbies sold the number of Disney cruise
passengers infected with Legionnaires disease and so on and if you're the CEO [Person puking off the edge of a cruise ship]
or CFO of the company and you don't get your filings in on time well you'll be
doing a different kind of filing so yeah 10K, 10Q they're really important
don't ignore them...
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