Announcement: FREE Aussie Investor’s SEC Filing Cheat Sheet
ASX Announcements Trained You For a Different Kind of Disclosure — Here’s the US Version, Decoded
We’ve just released our third free subscriber resource: The Aussie Investor’s SEC Filing Cheat Sheet — a two-page guide to reading a US 10-K or 10-Q without drowning in 100+ pages of disclosure you were never trained to navigate.
It’s free. No paywall — simply subscribe to claim it.
What’s inside
The cheat sheet is structured across four sections, built specifically for investors used to the ASX’s short, event-driven disclosure style:
- Know Your Document — what a 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and proxy statement actually are, and their closest ASX equivalents
- The Sections That Actually Matter — a working order for a 100+ page filing, covering the five sections where the real information lives
- Red Flags to Scan For — the patterns experienced filing-readers check for before anything else
- US Line Items, Translated — how revenue recognition, share buyback disclosures, non-GAAP reconciliations, and other US-specific line items read differently to what you’re used to on an ASX report
Why we built this
An ASX announcement is short and event-driven. A US 10-K is neither — it’s a 100+ page annual disclosure document with a rigid, standardised structure that no one explains to you before you open one for the first time.
Most Aussie investors either skip straight to the financial statements (missing the context that explains them) or try to read the whole thing cover to cover (missing the forest for the trees). Neither approach tells you where the real information — or the real warning signs — actually sit.
This cheat sheet exists so you know exactly where to look, in what order, and what to be suspicious of, before you ever open your first 10-K.
Pair it with last month’s free guide, The Aussie’s Glossary of US Investing Terms, if you want the terminology sorted too — the two are built to work together.
How to claim your copy
The cheat sheet is free for all WSDU subscribers.
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If you’re not yet subscribed, enter your email below and you’ll receive the glossary immediately, plus weekly US market analysis built specifically for Australian investors.
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