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For IROs, XBRL errors a wake-up call

For IROs, XBRL errors a wake-up call

By Anne Leslie-Bini on September 12, 2011

WITH financial data providers increasingly using XBRL filings in the numbers they deliver to Wall Street, poor corporate reporting controls are threatening company reputations and raising the specter of investors making trading decisions based on faulty figures.

Posted in Investor Relations, IR News | Tagged financial reporting, interactive data, XBRL

SEC calls meeting for final XBRL rule

By Dominic Jones 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 IR News, Online IR | Tagged interactive data, SEC, securities and exchange commission, XBRL

Software firm "dumbfounded" by SEC's use of its IDEA trademark

Software firm "dumbfounded" by SEC's use of its IDEA trademark

By Dominic Jones 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 [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged interactive data, securities and exchange commission, XBRL

Ex-SEC leaders challenge Cox's interactive data initiative

By Dominic Jones 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, [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged financial reporting, interactive data, Internet, XBRL

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 [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL

Cox to announce IDEA will replace EDGAR

By Dominic Jones 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, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged EDGAR, IDEA, interactive data, SEC, XBRL

SEC posts text of proposed XBRL rule

By Dominic Jones 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 Annual Reports, Articles | Tagged annual report, financial information, financial statements, gaap, interactive data, law, Quarterly Reporting, rule proposal, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, us sec, usgaap, XBRL

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