Form 10-K (Part One): Business, Risk Factors & Part I Disclosures Essentials Workshop 2026

In this virtual Workshop for SEC reporting professionals, using the SEC’s guidance discussed in our SEC 101 Reporting Essentials for Financial Professionals Workshop: Legal Foundations & SEC Research Tools or the SEC 101 Reporting Essentials for Lawyers Workshop: Legal Foundations & SEC Research Tools, you will build the practical knowledge base, skills and tools needed to draft and review the business, risk factors and related company background sections in Part I of the Form 10-K annual report. [Please note that the rest of the Form 10-K Items are addressed in the Form 10-K (Part Two) Essentials Workshop and that MD&A is addressed in a separate Essentials Workshop. Discussion will include requirements from Regulation S-K for non-financial statement disclosures as well as requirements from the Staff Accounting Bulletins, Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations, and other SEC reporting sources. Discussion will include new Item 1. Cybersecurity disclosures and other evolving disclosure areas. Frequent SEC comment areas for Part I will also be reviewed. This is an interactive Workshop (via Zoom), and open discussion is encouraged to enhance and deepen the learning process.

The Workshop includes online access to PLI’s SEC Reporting Handbook.

After completing this Workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify key disclosure issues in Part I of Form 10-K

• Understand, draft and review human capital resources and risk factor disclosures

• Discuss the latest developments from the SEC, including evolving cybersecurity disclosures

• Apply the definition of Accelerated Filer and related SOX implications 

• Enumerate the SEC staff’s “hot buttons,” including frequent comment areas on Part I of Form 10-K