{"id":837,"date":"2017-02-08T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seci.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2017-02-08T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:34:07","slug":"things-are-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/things-are-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Are Changing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: George M. Wilson &amp; Carol A. Stacey<\/p>\n<p>Two of the provisions of the Dodd Frank Act relating to disclosures by public companies are being considered for change in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Conflict Minerals Disclosures<\/strong><br \/>\nActing Chairman Piwowar has directed the Staff to reconsider whether the 2014 guidance on the conflict minerals rule is\u00a0still appropriate and whether any additional relief is appropriate. You can read his announcement including his formal statement and information he gathered on a trip to Africa<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/statement\/reconsideration-of-conflict-minerals-rule-implementation.html\"><u> here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Resource Extraction Payment Rule<\/strong><br \/>\nCongress has begun the process of revoking the Resource Extraction Payments provisions of the Act. The House passed this provision earlier and the Senate voted to revoke the provision Friday, February 3, 2017. You can read about the Senate vote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-us-senate-kills-sec-resource-extraction-rule-2017-2\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As always your thoughts and comments are welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: George M. Wilson &amp; Carol A. Stacey Two of the provisions of the Dodd Frank Act relating to disclosures by public companies are being considered for change in Washington, DC. &nbsp; Conflict Minerals Disclosures Acting Chairman Piwowar has directed the Staff to reconsider whether the 2014 guidance on the conflict minerals rule is\u00a0still appropriate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/things-are-changing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things Are Changing!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[143],"tags":[101,111,129,63,19,107,42,85,121,204,6,99],"coauthors":[163],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-topic","tag-aicpa","tag-am-law","tag-conflict-minerals","tag-dodd-frank","tag-fasb","tag-financial-accounting","tag-financial-reporting","tag-pcaob","tag-pli-free-fridays","tag-resource-extraction","tag-sec-professionals","tag-seci"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}