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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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

FinTech Forum Announced: Crowdfunding & Data Standards, June 28, NYC

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.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Merrill’s Dimensions Newsletter – April 2016

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]


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