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.
Next Week the US SEC will hold a public meeting of the Commission that will focus on Inline XBRL. Yesterday the Securities and Exchange Commission announced an open meeting to be held on June 28, 2018, which will cover two rule proposals with an XBRL component: whether to adopt amendments to rules and forms to require the […]
XBRL Canada will be hosting a webinar on May 30, 2018 at 1:00 PM ET addressing their lessons learned from the first round of XBRL filings by Foreign Private Issuers (FPIs). Click here for more information on the event and registration details.
Michael Piwowar has announced his plans to leave the US Securities agency upon the official end of his term on July 7, 2018, or the swearing in of his successor – whichever comes first. Mr Piwowar highlighted his intentions to move on whilst also remarking “we accomplished a great deal for the ‘forgotten investor’ in […]
The massive EDGAR database serves up 1.5 billion copies of documents filed by public companies with the SEC each year, and these days 85% of those downloads are by ‘bots, not humans. That’s an important signal: regulatory data needs to be human and machine readable. Read more…
Did you miss the recent webinar on the new SEC Reporting Taxonomy? Not to worry! You can watch the recorded version of it here https://xbrl.us/events/20180501/. The webinar was hosted by both the SEC and FASB and addressed how issuers could take advantage of the guidance provided. The speakers were: • Louis Matherne, Chief of Taxonomy […]
Following recent changed to the IFRS Taxonomy and SEC Reporting Taxonomy, you can now find here the corresponding set of updated FAQs.
Inline XBRL, or iXBRL, brings together human-readable and computer-readable reports into a single document. Doing so sometimes highlights the conflict between the human need for readability, and a desire for consistent and complete structured data. A good example of this is reports that provide the same figure several times at differing precisions. For example, revenue […]
With so-called “FPIs”, or firms that raise money on US markets while domiciled elsewhere, now obliged to file IFRS financial statements with the SEC in XBRL or Inline XBRL format, the SEC has provided an updated set of (relatively technical) FAQs. Got questions? The FAQs are here.
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