10 Years of Historical Machine-Readable FERC Data Now Available

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) migrated data downloads are now available. The Forms’ data available for download  results from converting the data in historical filings originally submitted in Visual FoxPro (VFP), prior to October 1, 2021, to XBRL by applying the first XBRL taxonomy. The downloaded data is FERC staff’s best estimation of what the […more]


XBRL Updates for FERC Filers – Get Ready Now

11:00 AM ET Wednesday, October 20, 2021
XBRL US Webinar
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FERC filers should attend this free session for updates on the FERC Taxonomy and upcoming deadlines. Get up to speed now on how to render and validate your XBRL filing, and how to access historical FERC data in XBRL format.

Learn about the full complement of tools and services available from XBRL US, and browse our Member Tools and Services to help with filing.


FERC Notifies Filers that XBRL Submissions Can Begin Oct 1

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) notified filers that XBRL submissions can begin October 1, 2021, to meet the first FERC XBRL deadline of December 31 for Q3-2021 submissions. They also noted that starting October 1, issuers will no longer be able to submit a Visual FoxPro filing because only the XBRL submission platform will […more]


FASB Call for Comment – the 2022 SRT and Technical Guide

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 - Thursday, September 23, 2021
Proposed Taxonomy Improvements Comment Period hosted by FASB
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) staff recently issued for comment the following: Proposed technical and other conforming improvements for the 2022 SEC Reporting Taxonomy (SRT)(File Reference No. 2022-1100) Proposed SEC Reporting Taxonomy Technical Guide (Technical Guide) (File Reference No. 2022-1150) The comment period on the proposed DQCRT and the proposed accompanying Technical Guide ends […more]


Grants Reporting Case Study: College of DuPage

Executive Summary Reporting, collecting, and analyzing data about individual grants, and the grantees themselves, is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly. Grantees prepare multiple forms, and duplicate data reported. Federal awarding agencies and other users of grantee information manually extract data from inconsistently prepared PDF forms or text files. The GREAT (Grants Reporting Efficiency and Transparency) Act […more]


XBRL US Comments on SEC Regulatory Agenda

XBRL US commented on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulatory Flexibility Agenda. The XBRL US letter addressed specific items on the agenda including the Commission’s proposals on: Pay versus Performance, which calls for XBRL text-block and detailed tagging for certain executive compensation-related data, Filing Fee Disclosure and Payment Methods Modernization, which would require XBRL […more]


SEC Publishes Draft EDGAR Filer Manual

On Friday, August 20, the Securities and Exchange Commission published the draft EDGAR Filer Manual, Volumes I and II, with a deployment date of September 20, 2021. EDGAR Release 21.3 contains a number of changes related to XBRL and XML structured data, including the planned pilot for Form 24F-2. Read the announcement.


SEC Announced Open Data Access Enhancements

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made an announcement today concerning enhancements to open data access including a new API that allows users to aggregate XBRL financial data. Read the release. Access the documentation.


FERC Adopts Identifier Requirement, Does Not Mandate Single Identifier

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) adopted final revisions to their proposal, Data Collection for Analytics and Surveillance and Market-Based Rate Purposes to collect additional data from certain market-based sellers with ultimate upstream affiliates that have been granted blanket authorization to acquire the securities of those sellers or those sellers’ upstream affiliates. XBRL US submitted […more]


SEC Request for Comment on S-1 Data Collection

On August 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published to the Federal Register, a request to continue the current process for data collection of the Form S-1. Per the original 2009 SEC rule mandating XBRL for public companies: Interactive data will be required as an exhibit to a Securities Act registration statement that contains […more]