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Monday, March 16, 2020

XBRL US Comments on SEC Resource Extraction Payments Proposal

Cites goal of providing more information to global markets, and holding governments accountable for management of oil, gas, and mineral resources.

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

SEC Adopts iXBRL for Variable Annuity & Life Insurance, Publishes Draft Taxonomy

Amendments require the use of Inline XBRL for certain required disclosures in the variable contract statutory prospectus. In addition, the SEC published a draft Variable Insurance Product (VIP) Taxonomy which has been posted for a 90-day public review.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

XBRL US Comments Prior to SEC Muni Conference “Spotlight on Transparency”

XBRL US submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Municipal Disclosures in advance of their scheduled conference “Spotlight on Transparency: A Discussion of Secondary Market Municipal Securities Disclosure Practices”. The XBRL US letter advocated for the use of data standards for state and local government reporting and asked that the […more]

Monday, March 9, 2020

XBRL US CAFR Taxonomy Released with New Statements, Schedules and Footnotes

Now includes Single Audit Report schedules for municipalities and other federal grantees XBRL US announced today the public review of the third version of the demonstration Comprehensive Annual Financial Reporting (CAFR) Taxonomy, which now includes seven financial statements, two footnotes, and two schedules from the Single Audit Report. The taxonomy will be published for a […more]

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

XBRL US Comments on SEC Proposal: Filing Fee Disclosure & Payment Methods Modernization

XBRL US submitted a comment letter weighing in on the SEC proposal that fees and calculation tables in fee-based tables be prepared in Inline XBRL format. XBRL US supports the proposal and agrees with the Commission that structuring fee data will improve the efficiencies of the fee validation process for SEC staff, and will increase […more]

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BEA Proposes Amendments to International Services Surveys Including Use of LEI

On February 25, 2020, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) proposed a number of amendments to the mandatory BE-180 Benchmark Survey of Financial Services Transactions between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign Persons. This survey will apply to the 2019 fiscal reporting year. This mandatory benchmark survey, conducted under the authority of the International Investment […more]

Monday, February 24, 2020

SEC Announces EDGAR Update for 2020 Taxonomies

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the EDGAR system would be updated to handle the following taxonomies on March 9, 2020: US GAAP 2020 Taxonomy SEC Reporting 2020 Taxonomy COUNTRY 2020 Taxonomy CURRENCY 2020 Taxonomy EXCH 2020 Taxonomy SIC 2020 Taxonomy In addition, the Commission will remove the 2012 and 2013 INVEST Taxonomies from […more]

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

XBRL Data Quality Checks Available in FASB US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy

XBRL US announced today that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has incorporated freely available validation rules into the 2020 release of the US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy. The rules, developed by the XBRL US Data Quality Committee (DQC) are used by public company filers to identify and resolve errors in their XBRL financials prior […more]

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

SEC Updates Interactive Data Test Suite

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has updated their Interactive Data Test Suite, which is located at https://www.sec.gov/structureddata/osdinteractivedatatestsuite. The test suite is designed to assist filers using software to validate their XBRL filing prior to EDGAR submission. For a summary of changes, see the change log on the last page of the summary file (https://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/ednews/efmtest/efm-53.1d-200210.zip). Comments […more]

Monday, February 10, 2020

SEC Fixed Income Markets Advisory Committee (FIMSAC) Addresses Muni Transparency

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fixed Income Markets Advisory Committee held a meeting on February 10, 2020 including a panel on “Draft Municipal Securities Transparency Recommendation Regarding Timeliness of Municipal Issuer Disclosures”. Speakers on the panel were: Geidre Ball, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Emily Brock, Government Finance Officers Association Akiko Mitsui, Vanguard Hannah Sullivan, Fidelity […more]


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