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As XBRL mandate looms, SEC seeks urgent help with software
AS THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers new rules to require companies to begin filing their documents in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), it has been having trouble finding software experts who can help make those filings usable to investors.
The commission put out a pressing call in June for contractors to help it [...]
SEC seeks to "blow up" forms-based system
THE US Securities and Exchange commission has launched a study that could lead to the scrapping of its 75-year-old system that requires companies to file disclosures on prescribed forms like 10Ks, Form 4s and DEF 14As.
SEC to rule soon on websites for Reg. FD
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to address within the next three months whether companies can meet their obligations under Regulation FD by posting information on their corporate websites and in RSS feeds, according SEC Chairman Chris Cox.
The issue is among three areas that the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial [...]
An analogy that's hard to miss
WHERE can you legally stuff the ballot boxes with votes from people who do not actually cast ballots? Where can you cling to your position by having those votes push you to a majority?
Why, in America, of course. This happens in elections of corporate directors under something called broker non-votes, which the New York Stock [...]
SEC delays meeting on XBRL rule – Updated
Updated: SEC spokesman John Nester told Financial Week that “the meeting was postponed because the commission needed time to prepare and approve testimony for tomorrow’s Senate Banking Committee hearing, at which SEC chairman Christopher Cox is scheduled to testify on the role of credit rating agencies in the current liquidity crisis.” Original [...]
SEC does first conference call with bloggers
IN A first for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a group of 13 bloggers were invited to a special conference call Friday to talk about XBRL ahead of the SEC’s meeting to consider making the financial tagging language mandatory.
I was one of the bloggers on the call with David Blaszkowsky, director of the [...]
SEC Chairman Wows Audience with XBRL Demonstration
By Dominic Jones
THE acronym itself is enough to make people’s eyes glaze over, but the power of XBRL data immediately makes sense when you see it in action.
Anyone who wants to get widespread support behind the XBRL movement would do best to stop talking about its revolutionary qualities and start showing it off in [...]
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