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SEC Publishes Draft 2021 SEC Taxonomies for Public Review

The Securities and Exchange Commission published the draft 2021 SEC Taxonomies. The draft taxonomies are out for a public review and comment period to end November 2, 2020.

SASB Publishes Governance Documents for Public Review

The Sustainability Accountability Standards Board (SASB) published two governance documents: Conceptual Framework and Rules of Procedure, for a public review and comment period set to end November 30, 2020. The Conceptual Framework sets out the basic concepts, principles, definitions, and objectives that guide the Standards Board and technical staff in the SASB’s approach to setting sustainability disclosure […more]

XBRL US Comment on SEC Draft Closed-End Fund Taxonomy

XBRL US  submitted a comment letter in response to the SEC’s draft Closed-End Fund (CEF) Taxonomy which has been prepared to support the SEC rule for Securities Offering Reform for Closed-End Investment Companies. We recommended that the Commission: Rely on the XBRL International Data Type Registry in determining data types. Consider structuring the DEI Taxonomy, […more]

XBRL US Comment on Data Collection of Form 6-K

XBRL US submitted a comment letter in response to the SEC’s Extension of Data Collection of Form 6-K. We recommended that Form 6-K filers be required to prepare cover pages for 6-Ks using Inline XBRL, in the same way that Form 8-K cover pages must be prepared with the passage of the FAST Act. Investors […more]

FASB Publishes Extensible Enumerations 2.0 Impact on Providers & Software

To aid service providers and XBRL software providers, the FASB published Extensible Enumerations 2.0 Implementation Impact on Service Providers and XBRL Creation Software – Are You Ready? which addresses the implementation of Extensible Enumerations 2.0 in the 2021 US GAAP Taxonomy. Read the impact study.  

SEC Rule Proposal Administration of the EDGAR System

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a rule proposal, Administration of the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System, which is out for a 30 day public review period which ends on October 17, 2020. The proposal would add new Rule 15 which would allow the Commission to take certain actions in administering the […more]

XBRL US Comments on SEC Form N-CEN Data Collection

XBRL US submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission commenting on their request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend their current data collection process for Form N-CEN. Form N-CEN is required to be reported by investment companies using a custom XML schema. Form N-CEN contains a limited amount of […more]

The Calcbench Insider: August 2020

In this issue:

• Delta’s bad luck on investments
• Egg prices cracked, and Cal-Maine got fried
• On the rise: loan loss provisions
• Rolling up on toilet paper sales
• Looking at Q2 coronavirus disclosures

SEC Proposes Disclosure Modernization for Open-End Investment Management Companies

The proposal on Tailored Shareholder Reports, Treatment of Annual Prospectus Updates for Existing Investors, and Improved Fee and Risk Disclosure for Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds; Fee Information in Investment Company Advertisements  addresses rule and form amendments to modernize the disclosure framework for open-end management investment companies. While this rule does not call for XBRL […more]

SEC Proposes Reporting Threshold for Investment Managers

The Securities and Exchange Commission published a rule proposal, Reporting Threshold for Investment Managers, which seeks comment on revising the disclosure requirement thresholds for investment managers filing form 13F data, which today is submitted in structured format, using a custom XML schema. This data would be more usable if it was prepared or converted to […more]