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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Gartner Names Workiva a Leader in 2016 Magic Quadrant for Financial Corporate Performance Management Solutions

Workiva, creator of the Wdesk cloud-based productivity platform for enterprises, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Workiva as a Leader in its May 31, 2016 Magic Quadrant* for Financial Corporate Performance Management Solutions (FCPM). Gartner’s FCPM market includes solutions in financial consolidation, financial reporting, management reporting, costing and forecasting, reconciliations/close management, intercompany transactions and […more]

Press Release
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

SEC Filers Decreased Errors by 64 Percent by Using Data Quality Committee Validation Rules

The XBRL US Data Quality Committee reports that by using its first set of validation rules, filers reduced the number of errors in their filings for the data covered by those rules by 64%, Q1 2016 versus Q1 2015.

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Monday, May 16, 2016

SEC Looking More Closely at XBRL Filings

Lou Rohman, vice president of XBRL services at Merrill Corporation, a member of XBRL US’s Data Quality Committee, recommends that financial statement preparers take a closer look at the guidance being issued by his committee. Documents on the committee’s website provide guidance and validation rules that should be used for the filings. “The SEC gets […more]

From the SEC
Friday, May 13, 2016

SEC Publishes Crowdfunding Regulation

Under the Securities Act of 1933, the offer and sale of securities must be registered unless an exemption from registration is available.  Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 added Securities Act Section 4(a)(6) that provides an exemption from registration for certain crowdfunding transactions. In 2015, the Commission adopted Regulation […more]

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Altova Introduces Work in Process (WIP) XBRL Add-In for Excel

The Altova Work in Process (WIP) XBRL add-in for Excel makes it easy for contractors to submit WIP reports to sureties in a valid XBRL format – simply by entering the information into a spreadsheet in Excel. Learn more.

From the SEC
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

The SEC Comments on Crowdfunding Challenges

SEC Chair Mary Jo White spoke on the importance of capital raising programs for small businesses including two recent rulings that came out of the JOBS Act, Regulation A+ and Crowdfunding. In her talk, Chair White emphasized the importance of balancing the streamlining of capital formation for smaller issuers while still maintaining strong investor protection […more]

From the SEC
Friday, May 6, 2016

SEC Commissioner Stein Calls for Data Disclosure Task Force

In a speech at the 48th Annual Rocky Mountain Securities Conference in Denver, CO, SEC Commissioner Kara Stein called for the creation of a digital disclosure task force made up of investors, analysts, academics, companies, and technology experts. “We need to be thoughtful in our vision, and analytical in our implementation. Let’s make sure that […more]

Member News
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Calcbench Newsletter (May 2016)

Spending on share-based compensation to employees is always an interesting item for financial analysts, so we recently did a study of how much the S&P 500 have been spending on line item over the last four years. Among the companies that do spend money on equity compensation (23 percent of the S&P 500 do not), […more]

Press Release
Monday, May 2, 2016

XBRL US Surety Working Group Publishes WIP Taxonomy Release and Business Case

Data standards in surety underwriting will improve efficiencies, accuracy and timeliness The Surety Working Group formed under XBRL US announced today the completion of the Proposed Recommendation of the Work-in-Process Taxonomy, a digital dictionary of terms to describe reported values for costs, revenues and gross profit used to identify risks and determine eligibility for surety […more]

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

FASB Publishes Video on Importance of GAAP Taxonomy

On April 27, the FASB published a new video on the US GAAP Taxonomy: Why It’s Important. Members of the FASB XBRL Team provide context around key aspects of the GAAP Taxonomy.



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