By IR Web Report on December 11, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet on December 17 to decide whether to make eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) mandatory for public company financial statement information. The move has been widely anticipated following the publication of a rule proposal in May. It was thought by some in the XBRL community that the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, IFRS, interactive data, Investor Relations, SEC, securities and exchange commission, XBRL
By IR Web Report on September 11, 2008
UPDATE: SEC spokesman John Heine sent me three emails in response to this article along with additional materials related to the SEC’s own trademark application. A US Patent and Trademark Office document (PDF 228 KB, 12 pages) forwarded to me by Heine says: “The Office records have been searched and there are no similar registered [...]
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By IR Web Report on August 27, 2008
TWO influential US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alumni have raised concerns that broadening the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) to non-financial information will increase disclosure costs, raise difficult legal liability issues, and create burdens on companies that are “formidable in the extreme.” Former SEC commissioner and Stanford Law School professor Joseph Grundfest, [...]
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By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, Investor Relations, Officer Michael Davis, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 19, 2008
YESTERDAY afternoon, a number of bloggers got an email inviting them to a press conference webcast today with US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Chris Cox where he is supposed to unveil a “futuristic information disclosure system for investors and markets.” No further details on this new system were provided, but at least one [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, EDGAR, IDEA, interactive data, Investor Relations, SEC, XBRL
By IR Web Report on May 30, 2008
JUST in time for the weekend, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today posted the full text of the proposed rules for mandatory XBRL filings for domestic and foreign public companies. The proposed rules (embedded below) apply to domestic and foreign public companies that prepare their financial statements according to U.S. GAAP, and foreign [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, annual reports, financial information, financial statements, foreign private issuers, gaap, IASB, interactive data, law, liability regime, quarterly reports, rule proposal, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, us sec, usgaap, XBRL
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