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Regulatory & Legislative News
ESMA Announces Inline XBRL Requirement
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU agency responsible for the rules that govern EU securities regulation and the conduct of EU public markets, announced yesterday that starting in 2020, public companies that prepare consolidated IFRS financial statements will provide them in Inline XBRL. Read more from XBRL International: https://www.xbrl.org/news/esma-announces-inline-xbrl-requirement/
Securities and Exchange Commission Publishes Updated EDGAR Filer Manual
The new EDGAR filer manual draft was published with an effective date of December 12, 2016. Read more: https://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/edmanuals.htm
Securities and Exchange Commission Updates Inline XBRL Viewer
The SEC has updated its Inline XBRL viewer with these changes:
Read more on inline XBRL: https://www.sec.gov/structureddata/osd-inline-xbrl.html
XBRL US News
3rd Set of Approved Data Quality Committee Rules Published Covering Over 3,300 US GAAP Concepts
The XBRL US Data Quality Committee announced that it had published the third set of approved rules and guidance developed by the Data Quality Committee (DQC), which are now freely available for issuers to use to identify and correct errors in their filings. Read the release: https://xbrl.us/news/dqc-20160126
XBRL US and Consensys Form Working Group to Develop Tokenization Standards for Blockchain
The goal of the working group is to establish a standardized method to represent a token, a digital representation of an asset, which could be debt, equity, cash or a physical asset, across all blockchain networks. Standards would be used to eliminate transactional friction and reduce processing costs; enable automation and provenance tracking; and allow interoperability of transactions on a global scale. Read the release: https://xbrl.us/news/20161214/
XBRL US Submits Comment Letter to Dept of Labor on Standards in Pension Data
On December 5, 2016, XBRL US submitted a comment letter responding to the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) proposal to modernize Form 5500 Annual Return/Report filed by employee benefit plans. Global pension assets were estimated at $35.4 trillion at the end of 2015. The EBSA makes this data available to the public in CSV files today and the DOL proposal seeks to make this information more data mineable and accessible for research, policy analysis, and enforcement purposes. The XBRL US letter recommends creating a single agreed-upon financial data standard for investors and regulators to provide automated, understandable and more easily useable data for all data users. Read the blog and letter: https://xbrl.us/dol5500/
Data Quality Committee Comments on Proposed FASB Taxonomy Changes
The XBRL US Data Quality Committee responded to FASB’s request for comment on significant proposed changes to be made to the 2017 Taxonomy. Read the letter: https://xbrl.us/news/dqc-20161223/
XBRL US Publishes Position Paper on Reducing Business Burden and Cutting Government Spending
The paper addresses the significant challenges in data submission and collection today between business and government, including inconsistent data standards required from agency to agency and even within a single agency, lack of standard identifiers and duplication of data reported. The paper recommends establishing consistent standards to be used by all agencies and all reporting entities for reported facts and identifiers; and the establishment of a single master taxonomy and data collection system with oversight from a single government agency. Read the paper: https://xbrl.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Financial-Data-Standards-to-Reduce-Cost-Reduce-Burden.pdf
XBRL US Introduces Point of View blog
A new blog called Point of View (PoV) has been introduced to express the vision of XBRL US and its members. New posts include:
Read the latest PoV topics: https://xbrl.us/xusnews/pov
Case Studies Demonstrate Benefit of Standards for Data Users
Several recently published case studies demonstrate how XBRL helps user audiences reduce costs and increase timeliness:
Got research or an idea to explore? Send an email to info@xbrl.us to let us know about it.
Dept of Energy Orange Button: Data Standards in Solar Financing – Webinar Replay Now Available
Daniel Boff of the U.S. Department of Energy; Tom Tansy of the Sunspec Alliance and Campbell Pryde of XBRL US discussed the DOE’s Orange Button program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative. Orange Button seeks to make solar energy cost-competitive with other forms of electricity by funding cooperative research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects by private companies, universities, state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, and national laboratories to drive down the cost of solar electricity to $0.06 per kilowatt-hour. Read about the DOE Orange Button program: http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/orange-button-solar-bankability-data-advance-transactions-and-access-sb-data
Upcoming XBRL US Steering Committee Meetings
XBRL US Members are invited to attend and get involved. Email membership@xbrl.us for details.
XBRL US Members
Welcome to our newest member – Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology and human expertise they need to find trusted answers. https://xbrl.us/member/thomson-reuters Find out more about the benefits of membership and how to become involved by visiting http://xbrl.us/membership.
About Data Quality
SEC filers should all use freely available, Data Quality Committee rules to identify and resolve errors in XBRL-formatted financials for more consistent, better quality data.
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