SEC Urges Inflation Risk Disclosures as Price Increases Persist

It’s on the minds of everyone from central bankers to shoppers paying bigger grocery bills. Inflation now needs to be top of mind for companies as they draw up their financial statements, US regulators are telling them.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is reminding companies as diverse as childcare provider Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc., chip maker Nvidia Corp., tobacco company Philip Morris International Inc., and others that they need to spell out to investors and analysts how inflation affects their bottom lines. The SEC wrote to companies, telling them to reveal in future filings how inflationary ...