Financial restatements
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The Ideagen Audit Analytics restatement database covers all SEC registrants who have disclosed a financial statement restatement in electronic filings since January 1, 2000.
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We helped establish the industry standard of categorizing restatements as either Reissuance (“Big R”) or Revision (“Little r”) restatements. Big R restatements address a material error that calls for the complete withdrawal and republishing of past financial statements. Little r restatements deal with errors that aren’t so material as to completely undermine previous financial restatements, but are material enough to be corrected in historical accounts in current financial statements.
Find financial restatements filed in accordance with rules ASC 250 and SAB 99.