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Did you catch this piece in Accounting Today?

September 8, 2017

Just after we put the newsletter to bed for a few weeks, an interview with XBRL International CEO John Turner appeared. It’s an outline of a number of fields that have seen adoption around the world. You can find it here.

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The TODE conference

September 8, 2017

Trusted Open Data Ecosystems – will be held in Madrid at the end of this month, presented by Eurofiling. The goal of TODE’2017 is to look into the future of RegTech and discuss key developments within a 10+year time horizon. Participants will learn and discuss the requirements, challenges and solutions necessary to achieve transparent, efficient and […]

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While we are in Switzerland

September 8, 2017

Did you know that the Swiss Central Bank is a listed entity? Nope, it was new to us too. Over the northern hemisphere summer the price of that stock went through the roof. The reasons aren’t all that obvious. Anyone got a theory? Read more.

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IFRS Releases Updated Business Rules

July 28, 2017

An important part of high quality structured data is the application of business rules that uncover simple mistakes and business logic errors. XBRL International urges all regulators to use machine executable business rules in order to significantly enhance data quality. To help environments that report based on the IFRS accounting standards, the IFRS Taxonomy Formula Linkbase […]

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Unit Registry Updated

July 28, 2017

Ok… so this might seem mundane, but really, it isn’t. One of the many useful features of XBRL is the ability to enforce consistent measurement. One of the ways that the standard does that is through the Units Registry which is a set of authoritative definitions of units of measure that are machine readable. Many […]

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State of Indiana takes first steps towards SBR

July 28, 2017

SBR or Standardised Business Reporting is a proven way to reduce red tape cheaply and effectively. The strategy is a simple one: find all of the duplicative reporting requirements in government, analyse the definitions that are similar but not identical, and work to conform or harmonise those definitions. If a government has five different agencies that collect information […]

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Catching Out the Fraudsters

July 28, 2017

Over on the CFA Institute blog, there is a cautionary tale from Norb Vonnegut, parsing three key lessons from the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme. Useful for regulators (of all kinds) and investors alike, it’s worth a read. He points out that these kinds of financial frauds: provide what is really a sales pitch wrapped up as due […]

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EIOPA Publishes the Final Taxonomy version 2.2.0

July 28, 2017

Right on schedule, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published the final 2.2.0 version of the EIOPA XBRL taxonomy. The Taxonomy is here. The guide is here. For more general information, look here.

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XBRL securities filings means corporate narrative gets to investors faster, more accurately

July 21, 2017

An in depth interview with Bloomberg’s Global Regulatory Monitor, Mr Emil Efthimides in this week’s Dimensions report from Merrill Corporation (registration required)  should be of interest to regulators, companies and accountants alike. Bloomberg already pulls XBRL data directly from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Israel, Mexico and Brazil, but it has now been consuming the more complex […]

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Fishy Technology

July 21, 2017

At XBRL we have long advocated the advantages of using digital reporting technologies well beyond the financial world; switching from paper to data as a means to increasing revenue, reducing costs and increasing productivity. As a case in point,  the use of Blockchain is being pushed well and truly into new waters within the global fishing […]

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