October 9, 2012—Footnoted's Red Flag Alerts, including this alert about H&R Block, Inc. are available exclusively to Footnoted *PRO subscribers. To subscribe, click here.

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March 2, 2012—One of the things that we love to look for as we're reading as many filings as we do are common themes or memes, which as Wikipedia notes are regarded as "cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and ...

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September 16, 2011—Earlier this week, there was one of those big financial conferences in Manhattan that we weren't invited to, but which we learned about (as we do most things) via an SEC filing, specifically this 8-K filed by JP Morgan Chase (JPM). ...

July 15, 2010—The long-anticipated Wall Street reform bill just passed the U.S. Senate and is heading for President Obama's desk. It still has a number of the investor-protection and corporate-governance provisions we mentioned before, but we were recently reminded that even some of ...

July 2, 2010—The slow season for filings is a mixed blessing: It lets us spend a little more time with the filings that do come in. But at the same time, there's less in the way of clear-cut, compelling material for FootnotedPro, our subscription service for professional investors. So we took the opportunity to go back and [...]

March 31, 2010—In all the hue and cry over executive compensation, one refrain is constant: Without good pay packages, companies won't get the best and brightest men and women for the job. And heck, you never know what it'll take to keep them coming in to work. ...

December 1, 2009—Given the paucity of filings on Friday, we couldn't help but pay attention to the 10-K that TFS Financial Corp. (TFSL) filed. The company actually tried to sneak it in late Wednesday -- around 6:30 pm. But the SEC was closed for Thanksgiving by ...

March 4, 2009—We hate to pick on Bank of America (BAC). Really we do. But we couldn't help it after noticing something new and interesting buried deep in this amended 8K filed late yesterday. We'll skip right to the good part: Adjustments to ...