Glossary · record convention
Filing date
Also: date filed
The filing date is the day a company filed a document with the SEC, as EDGAR records it. EDGAR's own indexes list, for each filing, the company name, the form type, the central index key and the date filed. CFO Tribune orders moves by filing date first, then by the announcement date, then by the effective date, and it counts a move in the week and the month it was filed: the weekly digests and the weekly and monthly reports all use that rule. A roster seat is shown as verified on the filing date of the Form 10-K that establishes it, never as a start date. This is the record's own convention, set out in the methodology.
Sources: the record's methodology
- CFO Tribune methodology: how the record uses this term
- SEC, Accessing EDGAR data · read October 23, 2026
Related terms
Guides that use this term
- First-time CFOs: what the filings say and do not say
- Form 8-K Item 5.02, explained: what a CFO change filing must say and when
- How to read a CFO departure filing, line by line
- How to track CFO changes: the record, the data, RSS and the roster
- Interim CFOs: what an interim appointment means in a filing
- Reading CFO succession in public filings: what the documents establish
- The four business days: how fast a company must disclose a CFO change, and what an amended 8-K is
- Who signs the 10-K, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 and Section 906 certifications