Implementing the right data standard, as called for in the FDTA, will enable economies of scale, reduce the cost of reporting, data collection and analysis, and generate good quality, actionable data for policy-setters, regulators, and the public, including investors, and researchers.
April 2023 SEC to host Municipal Securities Disclosure Conference on May 10, 2023. The program agenda will cover the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA), voluntary disclosures, risks, and current disclosure topics. Members are encouraged to attend and registration is required (deadline to register May 5, 2023). SEC announced that they had reopened the comment period […more]
Since the establishment of the XBRL US Standard Government Reporting Working Group, 4 releases of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Reporting (ACFR) Taxonomy have been published for public comment with sample XBRL reports. Comments received have been incorporated into the subsequent release of the Taxonomy. Below are the various sample XBRL reports (instance documents) that have […more]
By Campbell Pryde, President and CEO, XBRL US
Loopholes in regulatory disclosure requirements allow certain banks to opt out of filing to the SEC, including the recently failed Signature Bank (which also happens to be big enough to be part of the S&P 500). Equity investors need consistent disclosures across all banks. The FDTA could help resolve this kind of regulatory fragmentation.
March 2023 Online training programs from XBRL US are now freely available for regulators, developers and businesses. Three programs covering XBRL Fundamentals, Understanding the US GAAP Taxonomy, and Introduction to XULE (an open source processing language) have been developed to educate stakeholders in the reporting ecosystem. The first two programs include short videos and quizzes […more]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that the EDGAR System has been upgraded to Release 23.1 and now supports 2023 taxonomies. The newly released Executive Compensation Disclosure (ECD) taxonomy now includes the elements needed for tagging disclosures required by the Commission’s final rule on Insider Trading Arrangements and Related Disclosures. The 2023 U.S. Generally Accepted […more]
January/February 2023 SEC final rule calls for Inline XBRL for disclosures on policies to facilitate straight-through-processing. The final rule, Shortening the Securities Transaction Settlement Cycle is effective 60 days after the 3/6/2023 publication to the Federal Register. The rule adopts amendments to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer transactions from two business days […more]
The highly granular nature of XBRL allows all kinds of content from facts to XBRL reports to taxonomies, to be broken down to their atomic level, and aggregated back up into the structure you choose. To harness these capabilities, XBRL US created the open-source processing language – XULE – that allows users to efficiently manage […more]
Happy New Year! 2023 will be an especially important year for data standards and XBRL. The Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA) was just signed into law. The rapid expansion of XBRL requirements for SEC corporate and investment management companies is placing greater demands on our members and on the Commission itself. And there’s a groundswell […more]
November, 2022 XBRL US Data Quality Committee (DQC) 20th Rule Set includes rules for Business Development Companies (BDC) and public companies. BDCs have just begun reporting financials in XBRL format for the first time this year, and the DQC is now preparing rules to help these new filers identify potential issues before their financials are […more]
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