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The Readability of Company Responses to SEC Comment Letters
The Securities and Exchange Commission published its Plain English Handbook in 1998 with a goal of promoting “clearer and more informative disclosure documents” (SEC 1998). Warren Buffet authored the preface, where he states, in part:
For more than forty years, …