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Friday, September 28, 2018

House Passes Grants Reporting Efficiency & Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Grants Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act (H.R. 4887). A Senate version (S. 3834), introduced by Senators James Lankford (OK) and Michael Enzi (WY), was passed by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

SEC Commissioner Stein on Data & Technology

On September 27, 2018, SEC Commissioner Kara Stein gave a speech at Georgia State University School of Law titled “From the Data Rush to the Data Wars: A Data Revolution in Financial Markets” which focused on the importance of data and technology. Below is an excerpt from the speech. “Slowly but surely, the Commission is […more]

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Friday, September 21, 2018

XBRL US Comments on Financial Stability Board Thematic Peer Review on the LEI

XBRL US submitted a comment letter to the Financial Stability Board, in response to their Thematic Peer Review on Implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Feedback from stakeholders was invited to gauge awareness and implementation, as well as challenges and impediments to adoption of the LEI around the world. According to the Global LEI […more]

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Monday, September 17, 2018

CFA Institute Publishes Position Paper: Data and Technology

The CFA Institute publication Data and Technology: Transforming the Financial Information Landscape discusses the benefits of structured data to all parties in the financial reporting supply chain, including companies, auditors, regulators, and investors. This paper addresses the consumption of that structured data, including which data are available and how data are being consumed, and refutes the claim […more]

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

XBRL US Comments on Government Effectiveness Advanced Research (GEAR) Center

XBRL US comments on Government Effectiveness Advanced Research (GEAR) Center, a proposed public/private partnership, “re-imagining possibilities for how citizens interact with the Government; rethinking the delivery of citizen services and data; reforming core processes.”

Thursday, September 6, 2018

The Calcbench Insider: September 2018

In this issue:

  • Leasing Costs Extravaganza
  • Q&A on Financial Data Quality
  • Geeking Out on the Filings
    Cost of revenue and SG&A update Q2
    Who is exposed to Turkey?
Friday, August 31, 2018

SEC Emphasizes Data Quality in EDGAR Release 18.3

The SEC has released a draft of the EDGAR Filer Manual (EFM) to reflect changes in the new EDGAR Release 18.3 which is scheduled to be published October 1, 2018. An update to the EFM test suite will be published soon with new test cases. While a number of changes have been made to the […more]

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Monday, August 20, 2018

Financial Stability Board Peer Review on LEI Solicits Marketplace Feedback

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is conducting a review on implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). The objective of the review is to evaluate the progress made by FSB members – both national authorities and international bodies – in response to the G20 Leaders’ 2012 call for “global adoption of the LEI to support […more]

XBRL US Data Quality Committee Solicits Input on 7th Ruleset and Guidance for SEC Filers

The Data Quality Committee is soliciting input on the 7th Data Quality Ruleset during a public review and comment period that will end on September 10, 2018.

Friday, August 17, 2018

Reason Foundation Article on XBRL US State & Local Govt Initiative

On August 17, Marc Joffe of the Reason Foundation published an article on Making Government Documents Searchable and Machine-Readable to Improve Transparency and Accountability which states: “In Florida, and nationally, Reason Foundation is working to improve the accounting transparency of state and local governments by seeking the mandatory disclosure of government financial documents in a machine-readable […more]


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