Reference Library
SEC Data Glossary
Plain-English definitions of the systems, formats, and identifiers behind SEC financial data — from EDGAR and XBRL to the taxonomies and forms that make public-company filings machine-readable.
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Accession Number
An accession number is the unique identifier the SEC assigns to each individual submission made through EDGAR. While a Central Index Key (CIK)…
CIK (Central Index Key)
Central Index Key
The Central Index Key (CIK) is the unique number the SEC assigns to every filer in the EDGAR system — including public companies, mutual funds, and…
DEF 14A
Definitive Proxy Statement
DEF 14A is the SEC form code for a company's definitive proxy statement, the document filed ahead of its annual shareholder meeting whenever…
DEI (Document and Entity Information)
Document and Entity Information
DEI (Document and Entity Information) is the standardized XBRL taxonomy used to tag the metadata about a filing and the entity that submitted it.…
EDGAR
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's official electronic system for…
Form 10-K
Form 10-K is the comprehensive annual report that U.S. public companies file with the SEC. It is the most detailed periodic disclosure a company…
Form 10-Q
Form 10-Q is the quarterly report that U.S. public companies file with the SEC for each of the first three quarters of their fiscal year. It provides…
Form 13F
Form 13F is the quarterly report the SEC requires from institutional investment managers who exercise investment discretion over $100 million or more…
Form 4
Form 4 is the SEC disclosure that officers, directors, and beneficial owners of more than 10% of a company's registered equity must file whenever…
Form 8-K
Form 8-K is the "current report" that U.S. public companies file with the SEC to disclose material events as they happen, between the scheduled…
Form S-1
Registration Statement
Form S-1 is the registration statement a company files with the SEC before offering securities to the public for the first time, most commonly ahead…
Inline XBRL
iXBRL
Inline XBRL (iXBRL) is a format that embeds machine-readable XBRL tags directly inside the human-readable HTML document of an SEC filing. Rather than…
Schedule 13D
Schedule 13D is the SEC filing required of any investor — individual or institutional — who acquires beneficial ownership of more than 5% of a public…
Schedule 13G
Schedule 13G is the abbreviated beneficial ownership disclosure available to an investor who crosses 5% ownership of a public company's outstanding…
US-GAAP Taxonomy
The US-GAAP taxonomy is the standardized XBRL dictionary of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles reporting concepts that public companies…
XBRL
eXtensible Business Reporting Language
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an open, XML-based standard for tagging financial and business data so that it can be read and…
XBRL Taxonomy
An XBRL taxonomy is the standardized dictionary of reporting concepts that XBRL tags refer to. It defines each reportable element — such as…
From Filings to Analysis
Every metric traced back to its SEC filing
GeminIQ reads the XBRL data behind these terms directly from SEC EDGAR — no third-party aggregator, no normalization layer. See how the data turns into interactive analysis in the financial metrics library.