September 15, 2010—We know Farmer Brothers (FARM) peddles coffee to the restaurant and cafeteria set, but it may be time to lay off the joe over there -- at least while preparing the corporate filings. Yesterday, the Torrance, California, purveyor of coffee (and related products) ...

August 30, 2010—Tuck into that buttery pound cake and those Jimmy Dean sausages while you can. Because in addition to rising sea levels and disappearing species, global climate change -- or at the very least, governmental efforts to mitigate ...

August 23, 2010—Corporate lawyers aren't known for being early adopters, whether of cutting-edge technology or zippy new buzzwords. As a result, company filings may be one of the last places to spot new trends. So we're assuming ...

June 25, 2010—Stark reminders of the reach of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continue to surface in the filings, sometimes in unlikely places. The most recent: The J.M. Smucker Co. (SJM) -- purveyor of jellies, Crisco, and Jif peanut butter -- warned in the

June 4, 2010—Back when we took basic algebra, we always found those "story problems" a little labored, what with trains leaving separate stations simultaneously all the time. Little did we know that, a few decades later, we'd be applying those same principles to deciphering multimillion-dollar pay ...

April 8, 2010—It's becoming clear that Massey Energy (MEE), which owns the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 25 miners died after an explosion this week, has had a spotty regulatory history. By one count, the Upper Big Branch alone had 3,007 violations ...

March 17, 2010—At the beginning of February, CIT Group, Inc. (CIT) announced that its president and Chief Operating Officer, Alexander Mason, would leave the company on February 26th. Mason joined the company June 16, 2008, putting his tenure there at just over ...

March 8, 2010—One of the challenges of reading annual reports is sifting through the massive dump of exhibits and figuring out what has been filed previously and what hasn—t. And despite what you're probably thinking, that work isn—t always as glamorous as it sounds. Occasionally, ...

March 4, 2010—A lot of us like a good mystery, but most of us probably prefer the ones in a book to those in an SEC filing. When we looked at the 10-K that Forestar Group Inc. (FOR) filed yesterday, we noticed an interesting example that ...

March 3, 2010—In addition to the exciting news reported yesterday about Dominos Pizza, Inc.—s (DPZ) impressive profits, the company also released information about deals with two top executives. On March 8th, J. Patrick Doyle will replace David Brandon as President and CEO. And as Doyle's ...