EFRAG Call for ESG Task Force Members
Europe are seeking expert input as they take the next step in the all-important process of building data standards for non-financial reporting.
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IFAC calls for Non-Financial Reporting Standards
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has called on G20 leaders to strengthen commitments to transparent non-financial reporting in their long-term recovery from Covid-19.
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XBRL US Municipal Beat Podcast on Data Standards
The Covid-19 crisis has made it clear how important it is to be able to quickly access and interpret data in a rapidly moving market. While public companies in the US report XBRL-tagged financial information to the SEC quarterly, making up-to-date data relatively easy to analyse, municipal data is much harder to find.
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Strengthening Audit Standard-Setting
Since 2015 the international regulatory Monitoring Group has been looking into a range of aspects associated with independence and governance around international standards for auditing with a review of the audit standard setting process.
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Is Police data up to scratch?
With the criminal justice system and police reform in the spotlight recently, it would make sense to examine the data to make informed, effective changes. There’s one problem: the data itself.
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EFRAG tasked with proposing Non-financial Reporting Standards
The European Commission (EC) continued making headway on non-financial reporting this week with an announcement that the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) is to develop recommendations for non-financial reporting standards.
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Digital Health Data to supplant PDFs
The Covid-19 crisis has shown just how essential fast, easy, comprehensive access to health and safety data can be. Making sure that this data is in structured, digital format can help accelerate essential research – a lesson the FDA are putting into practice with their new strategy to modernise the submission of regulatory data and […]
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Standards for all creatures, great and small
Standardising and digitalising data doesn’t just make sense from a regulatory perspective; it also has inherent benefits for all sorts of industries and actors across the reporting supply chain.
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EBA and ESMA support EU Digital Finance Strategy
The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) have called for further standardisation of data and the use of digital entity identifiers in their responses to the European Commission’s consultation on a new EU Digital Finance Strategy.
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Accountancy Europe publishes findings from NFI Reporting Paper response
Non-financial (or environmental, social and governance – ESG) reporting is very much on the radar right now, especially in Europe. This week Accountancy Europe added to the debate with a number of new reports, including a follow up to their recent paper, Interconnected Standard Setting for Corporate Reporting.
