Government agency representatives, municipal analysts and investors, software providers, and other users of state and local government data are invited to review and comment on the data standards developed to represent Fire, Hospital, Metropolitan and School Districts for the State of Colorado. The Special District Taxonomies are part of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) […more]
By Marc Joffe, Senior Policy Analyst, The Cato Institute The Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA) promises to provide municipal bond investors with standardized financial data for counties, cities, and special districts that issue debt securities. Rather than work through voluminous PDF financial statements, investors would be able to quickly access standardized data facilitating peer comparison […more]
August 2023 Mark Funkhouser to Keynote GovFin 2023: Empowering Governments, Modernizing Reporting, to be held in Washington, DC on November 9, 2023. The former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and internationally recognized auditing and municipal finance expert, author, and teacher in public administration, will share his insights at GovFin 2023. In a recent article, Mark […more]
The XBRL US Regulatory Modernization Working Group (RMWG) submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting additional information about the upcoming EDGAR BETA Test which is being established to support the Filing Fee Disclosure and Payment Methods Modernization final rule. The letter notes that the working group greatly appreciates the plan to […more]
July 2023 XBRL US announced GovFin 2023: Empowering Governments, Modernizing Reporting, to be held in Washington, DC on November 9, 2023. This one-day conference features speakers from the Data Foundation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF), the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), The Cato […more]
June 2023 SEC report on public and internal use of machine-readable data published to support FDTA implementation. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published their first Semi-Annual Report to Congress: Regarding Public and Internal Use of Machine-Readable Data for Corporate Disclosures, June 2023. This report is required under the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA), Section […more]
May 2023 XBRL US publishes white paper, “Data Standards and the FDTA”, sponsored by Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN). The paper explores the current state of data management among agencies and provides a roadmap to meet the achievable goals laid out in the FDTA. It describes the current state of 400+ data sets collected by covered […more]
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]
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