An article by Robin Wigglesworth in the Financial Times this week calls out the fact that if governments don’t ensure they have access to new, useful sources of alternative data, policymakers risk being left in the dark in an increasingly data-rich world.
The Bank of England (BoE) is leading by example and disclosing its own assessment of how it is managing climate-related financial risk in its 2019/20 annual report. The BoE have been pushing for stronger climate-change related risk disclosure with a number of actions in the last year, including a recent consultation on previous climate-related risk […]
Harvard Law School’s Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation have published a deep dive into the SEC’s most recent disclosure amendments as part of their series on disclosure simplification.
Why do companies disclose “Non-GAAP” or “Proforma” earnings and performance measures? Is it because accounting standards don’t provide a suitable way to measure and understand corporate business models? Is it because Non-GAAP measures better reflect economic reality, or, at least, the factors under the control of management? Perhaps not.
For audit and accounting to build truly useful advisory services, they need to focus on more than just financial data, suggests a blogpost on the Accountancy Europe site. Wesley Shulte, from Finext, argues that moving beyond financial data will allow auditors and accountants to create valuable assessments for companies – for example, by auditing human […]
Fujitsu, a Direct Member and Sustaining Partner of XBRL International, ran its 4th Annual European Interstage XWand Users’ Meeting on 12 April in Malaga, Spain. The meeting was attended by representatives of European National Competent Authorities (NCAs), Officially Appointed Mechanism (OAMs), filers/issuers, software vendors, and software integrators from over 20 countries.
Europe’s Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – have advised against introducing a “one size fits all”, Europe-wide cybersecurity policy. In the short term, the ESAs say that while there are clear benefits to having a coherent cyber resilience framework across Europe’s financial sectors, this approach is difficult in the short term as […]
We are delighted to announce that Data Amplified, our annual conference that brings together the key players involved in the future of business reporting, will this year be held 22-24 October in Shanghai, with an extra Members day on 21 October.
Great news from the US as contractors and bond agents can now submit data in XBRL format, automating what was a laborious manual process and freeing up valuable time for small businesses.
As mentioned above, the US Surety Working Group have been developing the XBRL US WIP Taxonomy to be used by contractors filing to the SBA. This week the Working Group, which is comprised of surety carriers, bond agents, and software companies, also published a draft release of the Contractors Financial Taxonomy. The Contractors Financial Taxonomy […]
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