The Business Learning Institute runs a terrific podcast for accounting and business professionals, and recently interviewed XBRL International CEO John Turner. Spend a few minutes to hear how the XBRL standard is being used around the world, some upcoming trends and some food for thought. Listen in from around the 5 min 30 second mark […]
Using defined terms helps with clarity – even more so when you are dealing with complex issues. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a draft Cyber Lexicon for public consultation. The draft comprises a set of 50 core terms related to cybersecurity and cyber resilience in the financial sector. The Lexicon is intended to […]
The German financial analysts’ society, the DVFA, has launched training and certification for finance professionals in data science. Teaching analysts, bankers, accountants and other finance professionals how to access, collate, query and create value from traditional and alternative data sources, especially using machine learning. Using Python libraries and other open source resources, students are taught […]
Regulator moves to require use of the Inline XBRL standard for all public companies and investment funds listed on US markets. Move will enhance flow of decision-useful information to investors of all kinds, will lower costs and simplify external reporting over time.
Here’s some of the details from the recent SEC decision to move to Inline XBRL for US market participants.
Enhancing the quality and accessibility of financial reporting is a core objective of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council, the UK’s audit regulator and financial standards setter. The FRC also has a full time taxonomy team, who look after the UK taxonomies for filing to that country’s tax authority, companies registrar and charities commission. (Public company […]
Thank you! To Canada, where Jerry Trites, long time advocate for digital reporting in Canada, and stalwart of XBRL Canada is retiring at the end of June. Over a long career, including 22 years as a KPMG partner, as a staff member, consultant and frequent volunteer for CPA Canada and its predecessor body, the Canadian […]
When people talk of how technology is likely to impact the future, the discussion goes one of two ways. Either down a road of fear that technology will bring with it an end to our freedoms and a loss of our jobs. Or that technology will pave the way for a new world where value […]
In a recent bid to bring about a new digital agenda for the Eastern European bloc, the European Commission has committed to supporting the transition of the region into a digital economy. It is hoped through these changes that faster economic growth, increased jobs and better services will manifest. The EC has made five main […]
Still in the US… after pulling together a remarkable coalition of companies, public sector leaders and elected officials, Hudson Hollister, the founder and Executive Director of the Data Coalition and more recently the Data Foundation, announced this week his plans to step down from day-to-day leadership of the US effort to study and advocate for open, structured data […]
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