The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has published its 2021 Status Report. It finds that disclosure in line with the TCFD’s recommendations has accelerated significantly, growing by 9% in 2019–20.
We are absolutely delighted to announce that XBRL International’s suite of new specifications, among them xBRL-CSV and xBRL-JSON, has reached final Recommendation status.
A highly useful new report from the UK Financial Reporting Council’s Financial Reporting Lab aims to support companies in the move towards high-quality digital reporting.
We were interested this week to read reflections on the changeover to the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) and Inline XBRL for financial reporting in Europe, from members of the French Society of Financial Analysts (SFAF, La Société Française des Analystes Financiers) Evaluation Commission.
The XBRL US Data Quality Committee (DQC) recently approved nine new validation rules, following public review and comment. This latest instalment of the Committee’s valuable ongoing work takes the total number of freely available DQC-approved rules to 83, applying to many hundreds of reporting concepts.
For those interested in the development of the proposed International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), a webcast from the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation is important viewing.
Just last week we posted on rounding of figures in reports, and how it can cause validation processes to flag calculation inconsistencies that – while they should be checked – should not be a cause for concern, since there is (generally) no underlying error.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is likely to require mandatory climate disclosures as early as April next year, covering carbon emissions as well as other climate-related risks.
The International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board have published their sixth progress report on the G20 Data Gaps Initiative (DGI), counting down to its conclusion at the end of 2021.
The UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published its final suite of updated taxonomies for 2022, having released them for consultation in August. The most notable change is the integration of the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) taxonomy, used for mandatory emissions reporting.
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