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. Public companies that perform these tasks manually are vulnerable to human error. They need solutions that help them meet the market’s demand for real-time disclosure while controlling their compliance risk.
Solution – Q4 Corporate Disclosure Management Software
Q4 on-demand software solutions were designed to specifically address capital market disclosure requirements more efficiently, more effectively and with less compliance risk than ever before. Whether you're managing your corporate/investor web site or drafting and approving your press releases and regulatory documents, our systems automate your process and track everything, including the necessary compliance records.
Q4 systems integrate IR best practices, securities legislation requirements, automated workflow and a comprehensive understanding of the disclosure process. The end result is software that makes it as easy as possible for you to effectively meet the needs of your investor audiences while automatically minimizing your compliance risk.
Q4 Solutions:
Reduce Regulatory and Market Risks
Q4 solutions help you protect shareholder value. Our systems automate disclosure processes and record capture – from content creation right through to distribution – greatly reducing the potential for human error. Q4 solutions provide complete visibility into disclosure processes, helping you ensure that the right people view and approve material information in a timely manner. The comprehensive records created by our systems aid CEO/CFO Certification and evidence due diligence.
Increase Disclosure Productivity
Q4 solutions accelerate the distribution of your material information to regulatory agencies and the marketplace, saving you time and overhead costs. For a fixed and low monthly fee, and with no IT involvement, our solutions seamlessly integrate with existing operations, automating what were previously labor-intensive tasks.
Gain control over disclosure processes
Q4 solutions simplify and streamline complex processes and deliver the full visibility and accountability you need. As a result, the solutions put you in the driver’s seat, giving you control over every step of your disclosure process to ensure the delivery of accurate, timely and universal information to the market.
HOW Q4 PRODUCTS HELP YOU:
Investor Relations
IROs often coordinate the bulk of the disclosure process. Q4 solutions embed IR best practices and ease the burden of complying with legislation by automating many of the manual tasks related to disclosure – freeing you to focus more on content and less on process administration. Q4 products accelerate the delivery of your material information to the market. Read more .
Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD)
Q4 solutions can help you better leverage your site as a key disclosure channel, while also moving you closer to the compliance requirements under the new Reg. FD. Our products give you greater internal control of web disclosure, email alerts and RSS feeds to disseminate your information in a more timely and universal manner. Q4 systems integrate documented controls and comprehensive, searchable records to help you address compliance requirements. Read More.
SOX 302, CEO/CFO Certification & MI 52-109 Canadian CEO/CFO Certification
Q4 solutions help CEOs and CFOs comply with these regulations by automatically funnelling 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 demonstrate the effectiveness of your controls and aid your due diligence defence. 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 Reg. FD 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 .