Exchange Act Reports, Schedules, Statements, and Forms

What this video covers

• How the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 creates two parallel reporting tracks (registration track and public-offering track) and why both demand identical periodic forms
• What filer status means (large accelerated, accelerated, non-accelerated) and why public float, never revenue, drives your 10-K and 10-Q deadlines
• When Form 8-K is triggered, the 4-business-day rule, and the cybersecurity trap where the clock starts at materiality determination instead of discovery
• The 5% beneficial-ownership threshold for Schedule 13D (active) versus Schedule 13G (passive), including the 5-business-day initial filing and the 10-day cooling-off period when a 13-G filer converts to 13-D
• What Form 13-F reveals and hides: only long positions in reportable securities for managers with $100 million or more under investment discretion, measured on any month-end
• Why Schedule 14A (proxy) requires a PRE 14A waiting period and what must appear inside (background of the merger, fairness opinion filed as an exhibit)
• Insider reporting under Forms 3, 4, and 5 and the strict liability short-swing profit recovery rule that claws back every penny of profit within any six-month window