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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]
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.
XBRL US announced a free half-day FinTech Forum: Crowdfunding & Data Standards which will provide an introduction to crowdfunding, the practice of funding a company or initiative by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, through Internet-based funding portals. The event is hosted by Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business at their 151 E. 25th Street campus and sponsored by the CFA Institute and features speakers from SEC, FINRA and more.
Filers on alert as XBRL consumption soars and market adoption takes hold. XBRL submissions have quickly and quietly become a key source of data relied on by the SEC, and spawned many innovative products for use by financial analysts and individual investors. Major data providers, including Bloomberg and S&P Capital IQ, now incorporate XBRL disclosure […more]
XBRL US today announced that five companies have received certification that they have successfully incorporated the initial set of validation rules developed by its Data Quality Committee (DQC) in their software applications for preparing filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . XBRL US has tested these software applications to confirm that the […more]
Big changes are coming to how companies account for leasing activity. By 2019, the cost of operating leases will need to be moved from disclosure in the footnotes to disclosure on the balance sheet—with potentially big consequences for companies. Calcbench has taken a preliminary look at how large those new balance sheet disclosures might be […more]
As part of its ongoing process to monitor registrant compliance with the requirements to report their financial information in their eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) exhibits, staff in the SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis recently assessed the use of custom axis tags in XBRL exhibits that reporting companies submitted with their annual reports on […more]
The SEC announced that the EDGAR system was upgraded to Release 16.0.3 which now supports the 2016 US GAAP, 2016 COUNTRY, 2016 CURRENCY and 2016 EXCH taxonomies. The 2016 US GAAP Taxonomy is the same release that was posted by the FASB on their site on December 17, 2015. The staff noted that they encourage […more]
Calcbench conducted a Q&A interview with Jack Ciesielski, head of the Analyst’s Accounting Observer, to get his thoughts on OCI and AOCI: how to understand its intended purpose, what should be reported there, and its potential to cause financial analysis headaches. Read below to see what else Calcbench is doing to provide sharper, more precise […more]
Financial technologists, investors, analysts, regulators, investor relations professionals and data providers are invited to the free FinTech Forum: Smart Contracts, Blockchain & Data Standards. The blockchain is a distributed public ledger that describes confirmed transactions between counterparties, and that prevents tampering or revision. Best known as the enabling technology behind BitCoin, the blockchain promises significant new ways to transact a vast array of transactions that today rely on trusted intermediaries.
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