This week the XBRL Board of Directors has approved the progression to recommendation status of an important new specification: the Transformation Rules Registry (TRR4).
As part of a package of recommendations for improving audit trust, the Australian Parliament’s Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has recommended mandating machine-readable digital financial reporting.
XBRL’s new Open Information Model is a strategic initiative to simplify and modernise our standard. The OIM enables the free exchange of XBRL data across a range of different syntaxes. We are used to thinking of XBRL as an XML variant, but the OIM allows us to instead understand XBRL as a syntax-independent standard that […]
The Superintendencia de Sociedades in Colombia is holding a month of free training sessions to help financial report preparers navigate the XBRL EXPRESS online system. Circular 201-000008, which came into effect in November 2019, established requirements for monitored companies to report financial statements digitally, in XBRL format, in line with international standards. In addition to introducing country-wide […]
After ten successful years working to bring structured business reporting to the Netherlands, and beyond, Prof. Hans Verkruijsse’s retirement from his long-standing role as XBRL Netherlands Chair was marked this week at a meeting in Amsterdam. Throughout his career within the profession (as a Partner at EY and as an academic at the Tilburg University) […]
Recently Marc Joffe outlined the significant opportunities presented by the newly passed GREAT Act – and highlighted some steps already taken along the path to its realisation. At the start of 2020 the US Congress passed the “Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency”, or GREAT, Act. The GREAT Act presents a significant opportunity to increase […]
Congratulations to CA. Atul Kumar Gupta, Vice Chairman of the Board of XBRL India, who has been elected as President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). CA. Gupta is widely appreciated for his key contribution to the new Goods and Service Tax regime in India. He has also chaired the SAFA Committee on […]
At yesterday’s XBRL Europe meeting in Milan, ESMA foreshadowed a number of activities that it will be taking in concert with NCAs (i.e: national securities regulators) during 2020.
A new CFA Institute comment letter demonstrates the value of using structured data to inform debate and underpin policy decisions.
The XBRL Standards Board has voted to promote a number of additional data types to the Recommended status from their previous Candidate Recommendation state, following extensive testing from within the community, including by multiple vendors. These include data types that support Extensible Enumerations 2.0 and the OIM specifications, restricted monetary types, and physical measurements, amongst others. A complete […]
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