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by andreabee 1793 days ago
Congratulations! I played with that database in 2017 when they opened up the text. I'm so happy to see it's finally been picked up.

I built a thing which recreated the Income statements and then flagged for non-conformance. I found Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises "Good will impairment charges" as an anomalous line in their Nov 8, 2017 filing just prior to when their CEO resigned in 2018 and they had to make so many adjustments. Unfortunately, I'm just a data geek. I did have a financial advisor friend who was VERY interested, but we couldn't get enough interest to validate development, so I moved onto other projects.

I'm no finance whiz, but that database is a trove. So happy to see a company develop around giving it a go!

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Thanks for the wishes. That's really cool that you were able to do that!
Seconding Suhas here. Super rad
Which database?
I assume they are talking about EDGAR - https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search-and-access