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Disclosure Dilemma: When more (data) leads to less (information)!

Musings on Markets

Almost in parallel, accounting as a profession found its footing and worked on creating rules that would apply to reporting, at least at publicly traded companies, with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) making its appearance in 1933. Why have 10-Ks become longer and less readable?

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