Open data standards support many kinds of reporting organizations, and many kinds of data, from statutory financial statements to greenhouse gas emissions to descriptive narratives.
Because XBRL is a semantic data model that describes the structure of whatever data is reported, it is technology-agnostic and can be transported by commonly used technical formats, including XML, CSV, JSON, and XHTML. While these are today’s widely used formatting technologies, tomorrow new technologies may be introduced. The XBRL standard is designed to adapt to changes in technologies as well as industry and regulatory need.
Explore the many ways XBRL is used through papers, blog posts and infographics.
September, 2026 Federal Reserve Board seeks comment on two GENIUS Act proposals for Board-supervised entities with comments due by November 30, 2026. The first proposal, Implementing the Federal Reserve Board’s Responsibilities under the...
v30 The Data Quality Committee approves rules 3-4 times per year, and XBRL US Members who participate in the Center for Data Quality and provide filing software to clients must be certified...
By Campbell Pryde, President and CEO, XBRL US Summary: Agencies and market participants spend significant time actively reviewing a high volume of rulemaking comment letters. Current agency comment letters are unstructured and require manual...
August, 2026 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published the June 2026 Semi-Annual Report to Congress on July 1, 2026. The report notes that key benefits of XBRL tagging for data consumers include...
The US SEC knows a good thing when it sees it. They support the Data Quality Committee rules in the 2026 US GAAP Taxonomy. Are you using a tool or service that checks...
July, 2026 Joe Ferguson, President, The Civic Federation, to keynote GovFin 2026, a virtual conference for government finance officers. Before joining The Civic Federation in 2023, Joe Ferguson was inspector general for the...
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