Under the leadership of Scott Theis, the XBRL US Domain Steering Committee (DSC) published the first release of the XBRL Taxonomy Development Handbook (TDH). Developed over a two-year period, the TDH provides an in-depth roadmap to building effective structured data reporting systems. The handbook covers the fundamentals of the XBRL specification, data modeling and translating models to XBRL, assessing project scope, creating an appropriate data model to support reporting requirements, the mechanics of building the taxonomy, best practice in establishing a governance structure, and documenting the program to aid XBRL preparers and consumers.
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The SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) recently released its analysis of custom tag usage in financial filings submitted to the SEC using the US GAAP financial reporting taxonomy. This analysis focuses on XBRL exhibits submitted by issuers complying with the 2009 Interactive Data rules pertaining to financial statements. The study covered exhibits submitted as part of Forms 10-K and 10-K/A filings from January 2017 to December 2019.
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has released a written question-and-answer (Q&A) document discussing topics relevant to financial disclosure related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance and responses provided in the Q&A should not be extrapolated to other facts and circumstances not specifically discussed. Continue reading "FASB Releases Q&A on the Application of the..." »

Starting with their first 10-Q filed for a fiscal period ending on or after June 15, accelerated filers will be required to submit interactive data using Inline XBRL. Included in this transition are requirements, adopted by the SEC in March 2019 as part of the FAST Act Modernization and Simplification of Regulation S-K, to tag additional information that is visible on the cover page of Form 10-Q, Form 10-K and Form 8-K.

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has published Proposed Accounting Standards Update-Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) and Leases (Topic 842): Effective Dates for Certain Entities and the related release notes for public comment. The FASB has indicated that these changes to the accounting standards would not require any changes to the US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy.
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With the release of EDGAR 20.1.1, the Securities and Exchange Commission updated EDGAR to accept the US GAAP 2020 taxonomy among other new taxonomies. Even though previous taxonomies are still accepted by EDGAR, it’s always a good practice to transition your SEC filings as soon as possible after the SEC accepts the new taxonomy year.
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The SEC Office of Structured Disclosure has announced that the 2012 and 2013 INVEST taxonomies will no longer be supported by EDGAR as of the EDGAR release currently scheduled for March 9, 2020. These taxonomies were intended for use in the voluntary filing program. The voluntary filing program has ended, so support for these taxonomies will be removed.

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has published Proposed Improvements for Proposed Accounting Standards Update – Codification Improvements for public comment. The standard release notes are also included for review. The proposed improvement includes adding references for certain existing elements as well as adding elements for new accounting pronouncement disclosures.

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XBRL US seeks public review and comment on version 11 of the Data Quality Committee (DQC) rules. The DQC rules aim to help filers limit mistakes and avoid data inconsistencies that can adversely affect analysis of reported financial information. The eleventh set of rules includes guidance for issuers using either the US GAAP or IFRS taxonomies.

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On November 19th, XBRL US released the Taxonomy Development Handbook for public review. The handbook is a comprehensive guide that directs regulators, industry experts, and businesses through a practical roadmap to building high quality data standards with XBRL. This freely available, foundational document takes readers through the necessary stages of standards development, including: 1) building the appropriate transport data model, 2) assessing project scope, including use cases and requirements, 3) establishing a governance structure, 4) documenting the standards program, and 5) the step-by-step mechanics of building the taxonomy. The handbook also contains an introduction to the XBRL financial data standard, templates to guide developers in documenting the taxonomy, and case studies of XBRL as a method of improving data reporting in various industries.

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Staff at the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) at the SEC have released an announcement regarding the use of certain XBRL elements for revenue disclosures. Filers that have adopted Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) should be using the new elements related to this ASU to tag related revenue disclosures in their financial statements and notes. However, the staff has observed that filers instead are using outdated tags under the Accounting Standards Codification Topic 605, Revenue Recognition.

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The XBRL US Data Quality Committee (DQC US) has approved new validation rules to aid public companies in detecting inconsistencies and errors in their XBRL-formatted financial data. These rules identify potential problems, including incorrect negative values, improper relationships between elements, and incorrect data associated with certain data. The new rules, which are listed below, were approved after publication as a draft and with consideration of public comments.

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Both GoFiler Complete and GoXBRL have the tools necessary to create EDGAR filings in Inline XBRL. The process is the same in both applications and involves adding XBRL financial data to an HTML document using a patented technology called XDX. With XDX, you can add XBRL information to different types of HTML blocks which is then processed by the software to create EDGAR compliant XBRL.

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XBRL US has posted a helpful Q&A on the new Inline XBRL (iXBRL) Cover Page tagging requirements for SEC filings.

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is revising its electronic filing format for particular data collections to make it easier for filers to submit information and for data analyzers to use that information. This new rule, which was passed June 20, 2019, will modernize FERC’s data collection, which will in turn increase efficiency in regulatory filings and business information processing while furthering transparency and over time decreasing costs in preparing the data for submission.

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