• << Member Website
IR Web Report
| Investor Relations Web Best Practices, Trends and News
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Member Site
  • Guidelines
  • Services
  • About Us
  • Contacts
Browse: Home / footnotes

footnotes

As XBRL mandate looms, SEC seeks urgent help with software

By Dominic Jones on August 25, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Chairman Chris Cox, chris cox, EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, Investor Relations, Officer Michael Davis, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL | Leave a response

XBRL group assesses SEC rule impact

By Dominic Jones on May 17, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s plan to make eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) mandatory starting next year will have few immediate benefits for companies and investors, the body charged with promoting the technology has said.
XBRL US says in a sobering white paper published on Friday that while companies won’t have much difficulty meeting the [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged EDGAR, financial management systems, financial reporting, financial statements, footnotes, management system software providers, mandate, quarterly filings, rule proposal, SEC, securities and exchange commission, us sec, usgaap, XBRL | Leave a response

SEC proposes rule to make XBRL mandatory

By Dominic Jones on May 15, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing a rule for all companies to file their annual and quarterly reports in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) on a staged basis over the next three years.
Under the proposal, the 500 largest companies — including foreign firms that use US GAAP — will begin filing XBRL [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual reports, business, disclosure, EDGAR, EDGAR Online, financial reporting, footnotes, ir magazine, IR websites, James Lopez, Morningstar, news releases, SEC, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, Standard & Poor's, technology, Thomson Reuters, WebCPA, XBRL | 3 Responses

Improving the usability of financial statements

By Dominic Jones on February 19, 2002

REVIEWING financial statements lies at the heart of investment research. It’s what investors do most often when keeping track of the companies they follow or own.
So when it comes to choosing places to invest your IR website dollars, annual and quarterly financial statements are a high value target.
Well designed, highly usable financial statements improve the [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged financial reporting, financial statements, footnotes, Investor Relations, online annual reports, poor usability, user experience | Leave a response

Search IR Web Report

Google
Custom Search

Connect With Us

Contact information

LinkedIn groupFacebook Fan Page Posterous Twitter Google ProfileSeeking Alpha ProfileSubscribe to feed

Get Updates via Email

Enter your email address:


Delivered by FeedBurner

Latest Posts

  • Automated traders eye social media sentiment
  • Turn your dull investor relations PDFs into branded embeds
  • Dear Moody’s Corp: Type this fast 3 times
  • Probing U.S. independent advisors, study finds foreign stocks and ETFs favored
  • Is Twitter secure enough for investor relations?

Recent Comments

  • Why online user experience matters | IR Web Report on Writing for IR websites
  • IR Web Report study finds online annual reports in bad shape | IR Web Report on 10 reasons to avoid image-based annual reports
  • Big companies snub small shareholders | IR Web Report on 10 reasons to avoid image-based annual reports
  • Big companies snub small shareholders | IR Web Report on PDF blobs on investor relations websites must die
  • AMH in Ohio on If tweets had disclaimers

Archives

  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001

Topics we cover most

awards blogs Bloomberg business business wire communications disclosure e-proxy earnings EDGAR feeds finance Google Investor Relations IR websites law management microsoft nasdaq news releases NIRI notice-and-access privacy rss SEC securities securities and exchange commission shareholder.com stocks strategy technology U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission usability XBRL yahoo

Site Map

  • home
  • Blog
  • Member Site
  • Guidelines
  • Services
  • About Us
    • Dominic Jones
    • Pam Agnew
  • Contacts

About IR Web Report

Founded in 2001, we are the world's leading independent online investor relations consultants. Our clients include global industry leaders. Our core philosophy is that investors' needs must come first or IR websites will fail to be effective. More about us

Copyright © 2010 IR Web Reporting International Inc. By using this site you agree to the Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.