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Corporate insiders have long been required to publically report changes in their stockholdings. Such reports provide useful information and give signals to the market. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 reduced the maximum time allowed to file such reports to two business days. However, because of weekends and holidays, a reportable transaction could be arranged to extend the allowable time to file to as much as five calendar days. This paper looked at a sample of reportable transactions in a particular industry to see if the nature of the transaction affects how quickly the required form was filed with the SEC relative to the maximum allowable time. While some differences were noted, the paper did not find any particular relationship between the nature of the reportable transaction and how quickly the required form was actually filed. However, the study found that the majority of the reportable transactions occurred on Fridays.