The IPO process for going public includes corporate preparation and team selection, legal and accounting audits, selecting a lead underwriter, performing due diligence, filing a registration statement with the SEC, applying to list on a stock exchange like Nasdaq or NYSE, holding road shows, setting IPO price, issuance and allocation of shares, and stabilization of stock market prices. Road shows are repeated pre-IPO presentations, by the company’s top management team and its underwriters, to institutional investors, brokerage firms, and money managers, generally held over two weeks. These brokerage firms may be interested in buying a maximum number of IPO shares at an acceptable price when the company goes public.  The public company is subject to applicable SEC financial statement issuance, reporting, and disclosures through required deadlines using standard forms. These filed SEC forms are accessible to the public through The Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database of company filings.