6 Quotes by John Heine

Usually a lawyer looks at the narrative portion of the registration. An accountant looks at the financial statements. As they're reviewing the documents, they make notes about areas where they have questions or concerns about the adequacy or quality of disclosure, holding it up to the rules we have in place. On the basis of those notes, the staff composes something called a comment letter, which is sent to the filer.

We don't have any plans at the moment to do a wholesale removal of numbers on old forms.

We are going to do it as quickly as we can.

Any person who meets requirements and certifies that they are who they say they are can file. Of course there are all sorts of possible consequences if someone is abusing the system.

There is two alternatives, basically. They are either pending or declared effective. This one is still pending.

It was initially offered so that people could be identified as the Bill Gates in Seattle, Wash., as opposed to the Bill Gates from down the street.