Great news yesterday regarding the expanded use of XBRL across the capital markets by the Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC). The US SEC Commission voted to propose rules to require public companies (+14,500) to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the financial...
Great article today in the Wall Street Journal CFO Blog on the use of the open, freely available, global XBRL data standard by the US SEC for more transparent and accountability in the capital markets. XBRL protects investors and helps companies tell their story to Wall Street by making their financials available in a machine-readable format for consumption by data aggregators
Great article in NEXTGOV regarding the status of the DATA ACT. According to today’s article -- late last week - US Treasury issued a final version of the "schema," outlining definitions, time frames and standards for data sharing across government agencies. The DATA ACT requires the use of...
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Just came back from an accounting conference in London about the United Nation’s Sustainability Development Goals. Management accountants are going to hear more about this global effort and their involvement as this moves toward global adoption in the capital markets and by governments...
Background on the US SEC Report Issued to American Corporations for Disclosure: Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act mandated the creation of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion in all agencies covered by the act and requires that each OMWI develop standards for assessing the diversity policies and practices of entities regulated by those agencies
According to CERES - while almost half of the 600 largest U.S. public companies communicate with investors about environmental, social and governance issues, they could be doing a much better job of it. One “constant refrain” heard from investors is that “if a company is not talking about its...
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