| business | A description of the company’s business, including its main products and services, what subsidiaries it owns, and what markets it operates in. This section may also include information about recent events, competition the company faces, regulations that apply to it, labor issues, special operating costs, or seasonal factors. This is a good place to start to understand how the company operates. | Text (String) | Original |
| properties | Includes information about the company’s significant properties, such as principal plants, mines and other materially important physical properties. | Text (String) | Original |
| legal_proceedings | Requires the company to include information about significant pending lawsuits or other legal proceedings, other than ordinary litigation. | Text (String) | Original |
| vote_security_holders | Details about any matter submitted to a vote of shareholders during the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, including meeting results. | Text (String) | Original |
| market_equity_stockholder_matters | Requires information about the company’s equity securities, including market information, the number of holders of the shares, dividends, stock repurchases by the company, and similar information. | Text (String), Numeric(Tabular), Graphical(Visualization) | Original |
| selected_financial_data | Provides certain financial information about the company for the last five years. You can find much more detailed financial information on the past three years in a separate section – Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. | None | Original |
| management_discussion_analysis | Gives the company’s perspective on the business results of the past financial year. This section, known as the MD&A for short, allows company management to tell its story in its own words | Text (String), Numeric(Tabular) | Original |
| market_risk_disclosures | Requires information about the company’s exposure to market risk, such as interest rate risk, foreign currency exchange risk, commodity price risk or equity price risk. The company may discuss how it manages its market risk exposures | Text (String), Numeric(Tabular) | Original |
| financial_statements_data | Requires the company’s audited financial statements. This includes the company’s income statement (which is sometimes called the statement of earnings or the statement of operations), balance sheets, statement of cash flows and statement of stockholders’ equity. The financial statements are accompanied by notes that explain the information presented in the financial statements | Text (String), Numeric(Tabular) | Original |
| accounting_disagreements_changes | Requires a company, if there has been a change in its accountants, to discuss any disagreements it had with those accountants. Many investors view this disclosure as a red flag | Text (String) | Original |
| controls_and_procedures | Includes information about the company’s disclosure controls and procedures and its internal control over financial reporting | Text (String) | Original |
| directors_and_executive_officers | Requires information about the background and experience of the company’s directors and executive officers, the company’s code of ethics, and certain qualifications for directors and committees of the board of directors. | Text (String) | Original |
| executive_compensation | Includes detailed disclosure about the company’s compensation policies and programs and how much compensation was paid to the top executive officers of the company in the past year. | Text (String) | Original |
| security_ownership_management | Requires information about the shares owned by the company’s directors, officers and certain large shareholders, and about shares covered by equity compensation plans. | Text (String), Numeric(Tabular) | Original |
| related_party_transactions | Includes information about relationships and transactions between the company and its directors, officers and their family members. It also includes information about whether each director of the company is independent. | Text (String) | Original |
| quarterly_financial_info_unaudited | Requires companies to disclose the fees they paid to their accounting firm for various types of services during the year. | Text (String) | Original |
| exhibits_and_reports | Requires a list of the financial statements and exhibits included as part of the Form 10-K. Many exhibits are required, including documents such as the company’s bylaws, copies of its material contracts, and a list of the company’s subsidiaries. | Text, Tabular(External Links) | Original |
