Updates

Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2018

XBRL US Introduces Proposed API Standard, Streamlining Access to Structured Financial Data

Analysts, commercial providers & investors invited to December 12 webinar to learn more XBRL US announced today the launch of a free API (Application Program Interface) standard in a Proposed Release, to create, extract and analyze XBRL formatted, computer-readable data. The API is designed to work with any XBRL database or taxonomy. The XBRL API […more]

Posted Thursday, October 11, 2018

The Calcbench Insider: October 2018

In this issue:

• Our first webinar featured guest Marc Siegel, former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board
• Calcbench Cool Insights
  Unremitted foreign earnings, where are you?
  Exchange rate effects on cash.
• Geeking Out on the Filings
  Campbell Soup gets squeezed.
  Disclose your movie plans.
  Thoughts on structured data.

Posted Monday, September 17, 2018

CFA Institute Publishes Position Paper: Data and Technology

The CFA Institute publication Data and Technology: Transforming the Financial Information Landscape discusses the benefits of structured data to all parties in the financial reporting supply chain, including companies, auditors, regulators, and investors. This paper addresses the consumption of that structured data, including which data are available and how data are being consumed, and refutes the claim […more]

Posted Thursday, September 6, 2018

The Calcbench Insider: September 2018

In this issue:

• Leasing Costs Extravaganza
• Q&A on Financial Data Quality
• Geeking Out on the Filings
  Cost of revenue and SG&A update Q2
  Who is exposed to Turkey?

Posted Friday, August 31, 2018

July/August 2018 Newsletter

July/August 2018 Regulatory and Legislative News SEC EDGAR Upgraded to Release 18.2, Now Supports IFRS Taxonomy XBRL US News XBRL US Data Quality Committee Announces the Public Review of the 7th Ruleset XBRL US State & Local Govt Working Group Sends Letter to SEC Investor Advisory Committee AICPA Study Demonstrates that XBRL Costs Declined 45% […more]

Posted Sunday, July 1, 2018

XBRL Data Community

Join the growing number of professionals using the XBRL application programming interface (API) to get reported data and check reports before filing.

Check out our growing collection of free resources, including:

XBRL Filed Data extensions for Excel (365) and Google Sheets
and code samples in
Python –    and    R –

Posted Friday, June 29, 2018

May/June 2018 Newsletter

May/June 2018 Regulatory and Legislative News SEC Adopts Inline XBRL for Operating Companies and Mutual Funds SEC Publishes Draft Strategic Plan for 2018 – 2022 SEC Requests Comment on Fund Retail Investor Experience and Disclosure SEC Requests Comment on Proposal to Require Relationship Summary for Retail Investors SEC’s Baugess Speech at Financial Information Management Conference […more]

Posted Thursday, June 28, 2018

SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson to Keynote XBRL Investor Forum, November 8, 2018, in New York City

SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson to keynote XBRL Investor Forum 2018: Powering Fintech, November 8 in New York City. The event is hosted by Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, with sponsorship by CFA Institute and CFA Society New York.

Posted Friday, June 8, 2018

US Public Companies Need to Stay Relevant In a Digital Age

John Turner, CEO, XBRL International

US lawmakers should reject the suggestion that smaller listed companies’ Fintech-friendly data be replaced with paper. It would be like telling smaller film makers that they can’t use Netflix anymore, but instead need to market their work on VHS tape.

Posted Saturday, April 28, 2018

March/April 2018 Newsletter

March/April 2018 Regulatory and Legislative News Google’s BigQuery Now Hosting SEC Data SEC Proposal on Investment Company Liquidity Measures Out for Public Comment SEC Posts FAQ on the IFRS Notice SEC Updates Interactive Data Test Suite SEC Supports the 2018 XBRL Taxonomies XBRL US News XBRL US Domain Steering Committee Closes Public Review for Draft […more]