Corporate Disclosure Management

The Challenge: Balancing Compliance with Investor Expectations

Today’s strict regulatory environment and the escalating demands of capital markets make managing compliance an onerous task. While meeting investors’ expectations for real-time information is important, speeding up the disclosure process increases the risk of disclosing incomplete or inaccurate information. Compliance with rigorous disclosure standards also requires timely upward flow of information to C-level executives and detailed record keeping.

When they perform these tasks manually, publicly-traded companies are vulnerable to human error. They need solutions that help them meet investors’ demand for real-time disclosure and maintain control of their compliance risk. 

Solution – Q4 Corporate Disclosure Management Software

Q4 on-demand software solutions were designed to specifically address capital market disclosure requirements. They do so by managing, tracking and distributing disclosure.

Q4 systems integrate IR best practices, securities legislation, automated workflow and a comprehensive understanding of the disclosure process to give you end-to-end disclosure management. Our solutions map to your controls and procedures and blend with the way you do things.

Q4 solutions increase efficiency, reduce compliance risk and deliver complete in-house control over corporate disclosure.

Q4 Solutions 

• Reduce Risk -- Our solutions reduce risk by automating your disclosure controls and procedures and by automatically capturing time-stamped, auditable records throughout the process, including records of all content, comments, edits and associated approvals.
• Increase Efficiency – Q4 products accelerate the delivery of your material information to the market and save you time and money by automating manual tasks related to disclosure. Our integrated data feeds also increase your efficiency by automatically posting disclosure to your web site and triggering email alerts that simultaneously send information to your subscribers.
• Gain Complete Control – Q4 solutions simplify complex technology and enable non-technical users to easily accomplish tasks in-house that would normally require external technical services. This gives you greater control over the timeliness of your disclosure.

HOW Q4 PRODUCTS HELP YOU

Q4 products strengthen due diligence defense by integrating controls and procedures with your web site and by increasing your control over the development and timing of disclosure.

SOX 302, CEO/CFO Certification & MI 52-109 Canadian CEO/CFO Certification

Q4 solutions help CEOs and CFOs comply with these regulations by automatically funneling information up the approval chain in a timely manner, and by capturing detailed records of your entire disclosure process that demonstrate the effectiveness of your controls. Read more.

Bill 198

Q4 solutions help protect you from civil liability legislation by providing automatic, comprehensive and searchable records of disclosure and associated approvals that aid your due diligence defense. Read more.

Investor Relations

Q4 solutions embed IR best practices and ease the burden of complying with legislation by automating many of the manual tasks related to disclosure. Q4 products accelerate the delivery of your material information to the market. Read more.

Web Content Management

Unlike generic, content-management systems that deal with a wide range of requirements, Q4 WEB is a complete, multi-lingual, corporate web site and disclosure management system designed specifically for capital markets. Read more.

Sarbanes-Oxley

Q4 products effectively address Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) 302, CEO/CFO Certification, SOX 409 and RegFD and help issuers reduce compliance risk in a cost-effective manner. Read more.

Disclosure Risk

How vulnerable is your company? Under Sarbanes Oxley and similar legislation, companies and their officers must ensure the timeliness and universality of their disclosure. While many companies conscientiously make certain their core documents and filings are compliant with disclosure legislation, few mind the store when it comes to controlling the timing and content of information on their corporate web sites. This leaves them at risk. Read more.