The SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program distributed $500 billion to nearly 4.9 million businesses. This funding was critical to helping small business. But it could have been more effective if loan and grants data was collected in structured, machine-readable format.
Formed as a subcommittee of the Communication Steering Committee and the Domain Steering Committee, Regulatory Modernization Working Group is tasked with establishing a dialogue with regulators to ensure the efficient implementation of structured data standards programs.
The Taxonomy Development Handbook is a comprehensive guide for regulators, industry experts, and businesses to build consistent, high quality data standards that are easy to implement and that produce data that is easy to consume. Attend a free webinar about the resource on Wednesday, August 12 at 3 PM EDT.
Regulators and businesses should attend this webinar for a roadmap to building effective data standards programs that produce machine-readable data that is easy to consume.
XBRL US submitted a comment letter responding to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) request concerning proposed changes to Form 730, the Report of Electric Transmission of Investment Activity, and their proposal that the revised content be prepared in XBRL format. We agree with the FERC proposal as written, because much of the data required […more]
The success of the GREAT Act depends on the data standards, and the implementation. That’s why it’s important to have all the facts on how grantees report today, and on how the right standard can be applied to not only meet the “letter of the law” but fulfill the promise of this important legislation.
Data from U.S. public companies has been produced in machine-readable format for over ten years. But data from U.S. federal, state and local governments is still posted in paper-based documents. Governments should be as accountable to taxpayers as corporations are to shareholders.
Thousands of small businesses seek funding to protect workers and livelihoods. What’s needed now is a single set of standards to collect, process, and analyze loan data. Follow these 5 steps to build a system that can execute cost-effectively, efficiently, rapidly.
The FERC rule proposal noted “The XBRL standard also offers flexible benefits, including the ability to support simple formulas such as addition and subtraction and allow more complex formulas to be defined with a set of guidelines… requiring XBRL-based data would also lead to greater data quality through easier validation checks.”
The national consortium for
the business reporting standard
