Historical data is always useful to good financial analysis, so Calcbench has decided to serve up a bunch more of it to our customers. When researching a company (through the Company in Detail page), you can now use our Show All History feature to see all line items the company has disclosed—including line items a […more]
Spending on share-based compensation to employees is always an interesting item for financial analysts, so we recently did a study of how much the S&P 500 have been spending on line item over the last four years. Among the companies that do spend money on equity compensation (23 percent of the S&P 500 do not), […more]
Big changes are coming to how companies account for leasing activity. By 2019, the cost of operating leases will need to be moved from disclosure in the footnotes to disclosure on the balance sheet—with potentially big consequences for companies. Calcbench has taken a preliminary look at how large those new balance sheet disclosures might be […more]
Calcbench conducted a Q&A interview with Jack Ciesielski, head of the Analyst’s Accounting Observer, to get his thoughts on OCI and AOCI: how to understand its intended purpose, what should be reported there, and its potential to cause financial analysis headaches. Read below to see what else Calcbench is doing to provide sharper, more precise […more]
10-K Season is Here! The first few months of the calendar year are when most financial analysts prepare to start crunching data from companies filing their prior year’s statements. Through its Earnings Indicator, Calcbench is already tracking fourth-quarter results disclosed by 313 companies as of Feb. 1. So far that group has seen revenue up 1 […more]
Since early October, Calcbench has been incorporating non-interactive data in the form of ‘Earnings Press Releases’ into its platform. Calcbench maps the income statement and balance sheet items from the release into the financial statements for easy comparability. More on this and the full newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bH1ni1
Calcbench has entered into a relationship with the SEC that will provide a significant number of analysts access to its platform, normalized metrics, raw XBRL search tools, data about XBRL filing errors, and more. It’s a great step forward for the XBRL movement and finance professionals as a whole. More on this and the full newsletter: http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f573a7b42cdce2d803a4ecbcf&id=e17267cc23
Join this free webinar on September 3 at 3PM to hear from corporate data aggregators at Bloomberg and Calcbench, serving investors around the world about how XBRL has changed the landscape for financial fundamental data. Find out how errors in XBRL-formatted financials today make it difficult to leverage the greater timeliness and granularity that structured […more]
The Committee is responsible for developing guidance and validation rules that can prevent or detect inconsistencies or errors in XBRL data filed with the SEC. The Committee focuses on data quality issues that adversely affect data consumption and analysis and prioritizes issues based on input from users. The Committee provides an open collaborative process with stakeholders through exposure of its proposed guidance and validation rules for public comment. Members of the Committee include representatives from software providers, data aggregators, institutional investors, the accounting profession and academia.
The XBRL Challenge was a contest held in 2013 and 2012 to discover the top open source analytical tools that can mine XBRL-formatted corporate financial data from the SEC’s EDGAR database. The contest awarded $20,000 Grand Prizes in each year to the contestants submitting the most useful and user-friendly application conducting innovative analysis of public companies. What kind of […more]
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