October 2017 Newsletter

The Securities and Exchange Commission published a rule proposal on FAST Act Modernization and Simplification of Regulation S-K, including an amendment that would require that the information on the cover pages of Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 20-F, and 40-F be tagged using Inline XBRL.The proposal is out for a 60 day review and comment period.

Read the proposal: https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2017/33-10425.pdf

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The SEC test suite consists of many small Interactive Data instances, schemas and linkbases. The suite has been updated to provide new test cases for the 2017 IFRS taxonomy.

Read more: https://www.sec.gov/structureddata/announcement/osd-announcement-091517-interactive-data-test-suite-update

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The SEC posted a public test suite to assist developers of software that must validate Interactive Data prior to its submission to EDGAR.

Access the test suite: https://www.sec.gov/page/osdinteractivedatatestsuite

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XBRL US and SunSpec Alliance conducted a 30 day public review for the draft Orange Button solar taxonomy to solicit input on solar financing data fields. The launch was initiated at Solar Power International (SPI) in Las Vegas on September 12. Comments received will be incorporated and a second public review will be conducted in early 2018 to solicit further input.

Read the release: https://xbrl.us/news/solar-20170912
Learn more about Orange Button: http://xbrl.us/solar

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SFAA (Surety & Fidelity Association of America) and NASBP (National Association of Surety Bond Producers) jointly announced the creation of a Surety Standards Toolkit to help surety companies incorporate standards, including XBRL and ACORD, for insurance, into their financial systems. The toolkit includes a business case, detailed user examples and a calculation spreadsheet that allows sureties to determine the savings they can expect with the implementation of standards.

Read the release: https://xbrl.us/news/nasbp-sfaa-surety-standards-toolkit
View the toolkit: https://xbrl.us/surety-toolkit
Watch replay of webinar on how to use the toolkit: https://xbrl.us/events/20170919/

Register for this free, half-day, in-person forum, "Smart Data, Better Results", hosted by Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, with sponsorship by CFA Institute and CFA Society New York. Speakers include representatives from CFA Institute, Morgan Stanley, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Thomson Reuters, and XBRL US, in addition to various XBRL startup analytical tool providers. Investors, analysts, and regulators, as well as data and analytical tool providers are encouraged to attend.

Learn more and register: https://xbrl.us/forum

The DQC published comprehensive Cash Flow Guidance for issuers, along with a new ruleset version 4.0.0. Separately, the committee published four guiding principles, designed to improve the usability of XBRL data by ensuring the consistency of element selection and data modeling, allowing the comparison of XBRL data for analysis purposes.

Access the new ruleset and Cash Flow Guidance: https://xbrl.us/data-quality/rules-guidance
Read the principles: https://xbrl.us/data-quality/principles

Starting in December 2017, foreign private issuers must begin filing their financials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in XBRL format. The US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy and the IFRS Taxonomy have certain key differences that XBRL tool and service providers, filers and data aggregators need to understand. This webinar covers those differences and addresses questions on tagging.

Watch the replay & browse related resources: https://xbrl.us/faq-ifrs

David Tauriello, VP of Operations at XBRL US, outlines a new XBRL Data category that's been added to XBRL Achievements, with badges related to raising the quality of, and using, standardized data. XBRL Achievements is XBRL US' micro-credential program recognizing knowledge and skills developed for the changed digital financial reporting paradigm with categories for specification development, professional education, committee involvement, and now, data.

Read the post: https://xbrl.us/xusnews/pov
View XBRL Achievement Leaders: https://xbrl.us/leaders

Michelle Savage, VP Communications at XBRL US, weighs in on the importance of adopting a free, open, non-proprietary, financial data standard, developed and maintained by a global, not-for-profit standards body like XBRL.

Read the post: https://xbrl.us/free-open-reporting-standard

• Styles Come and Go. Consistency is Timeless.
  Scott Theis, CEO, Novaworks, LLC - https://xbrl.us/styles-come-and-go-consistency-is-timeless
• Have You Found the Right Team to Build Successful Standards?
  Campbell Pryde, President and CEO, XBRL US - https://xbrl.us/right-team-successful-standards

• Capture Conference on XBRL standards for capture software - October 5, New York
• Solar Power International on Solar Taxonomy - September 10-13, Las Vegas
• Intersolar Finance Symposium II on "Orange Button: Attacking Costs and Increasing Transparency via (Portable) Finance Data Standards" - July 10, San Francisco, CA

• The Domain Steering Committee meeting will be Thursday, November 9 at 3 PM EDT.
• The Communications Steering Committee meeting will be Wednesday, October 25 at 10 AM EDT.

XBRL US Members are invited to attend and get involved. Email membership@xbrl.us for details.

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