Financial Statements of Significant Foreign Equity Investees and Acquired Foreign Businesses of Domestic Issuers and Financial Schedules

The Commission is announcing the adoption of amendments to Regulation S-X, which governs the form and content of financial statements and schedules furnished by public companies in filings with the Commission, and Form 20-F, which is applicable to foreign private issuers. The amendments extend accommodations adopted recently with respect to financial statements of foreign issuers to filings by domestic issuers that are required to include financial statements of foreign equity investees or acquired foreign businesses. The accommodations relate to the age of financial statements and the reconciliation of financial statements to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. In addition, the amendments revise the tests for determining whether financial statements of an equity investee must be provided, and they eliminate the requirement to furnish certain supplemental financial schedules.