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The Motley Fool August 20, 2008 Tim Beyers |
The SEC Has a New IDEA The Securities and Exchange Commission unveils IDEA, a successor to the EDGAR database that stores filings for thousands of U.S. companies and foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. |
CFO June 1, 2008 Alan Rappeport |
Suddenly, It's Here The SEC votes unanimously to soon require companies to file data-tagged financial statements. The move seems certain to breathe new life into XBRL (extensible business reporting language), the data-tagging scheme for financial reports. |
CFO March 1, 2009 Marie Leone |
It's Here (Seriously) The SEC mandates the use of data-tagging for public company financial results. |
Information Today August 21, 2008 |
SEC Announces a New IDEA--The Successor to EDGAR Based on a completely new architecture being built from the ground up, it will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system. |
CFO August 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart |
XBR-What? Even as SEC chairman Cox champions "interactive data," few CFOs seem impressed. Is that because too few of the benefits accrue to them? |
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Clint Boulton |
XBRL Chugs Along Despite Scant Users The eXtensible Business Reporting Language was created to promote the automated processing of business information by software on a computer. |
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
XBRL Gathers Momentum With SEC and EC Attention Financial-reporting protocol gains high-level attention on road to adoption. |
Information Today October 16, 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The SEC's Plans to Reinvent EDGAR In its ongoing quest to modernize its EDGAR system, the SEC has awarded three contracts worth a total of $54 million to upgrade the system into a dynamic real-time search tool with interactive capabilities. |
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Paul Allen |
Is EDGAR Headed for XBRL? The SEC released a draft request for proposals for a new contract to overhaul its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system and enable it to embrace interactive data formats such as eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). |
CFO November 1, 2010 David McCann |
18,000 Errors and Counting The number of mistakes in XBRL-tagged financial statements continues to pile up, but results are actually better than expected so far. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2008 Tim Beyers |
The Most Important Shareholder Initiative in a Decade The company doing more for shareholders than any other right now is Microsoft, by developing a standard called eXtensible Business Reporting Language on its investor website. |
CFO October 1, 2009 Alix Stuart |
X Marks the Spot, for Errors Early results indicate that filing financial statements to fulfill the Securities and Exchange Commission's new XBRL requirement is far from simple. |
Investment Advisor June 2007 Melanie Waddell |
SEC Furthers Tool for Investors, While Frank Plans Hearings The SEC is working on an interactive system using the computer language called XBRL that's designed to give investors the tools they need to more easily compare mutual funds. |
Bank Technology News December 2002 Melissa Solomon |
A Standard for All To Understand Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is progressing, but still needs work. XBRL is an XML-based standard for business reporting that would make everything from public companies' regulatory reports to borrowers' financial statements accessible from any type of software or technology. |
CFO November 17, 2003 John Goff |
XBRL The universal business language remains anything but universal. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 1, 2005 Ivy Schmerken |
Regulators to Launch Call Report Modernization Project The initiative revolves around a Central Data Repository containing the quarterly regulatory filings of more than 8,400 financial institutions. All of the information within the filings will be tagged using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), a cross-industry standard for representing financial data. |
Wall Street & Technology September 21, 2004 Beth Bacheldor |
Looking for Trouble Under new IT leadership, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is upgrading technology to become a better watchdog and maintain market confidence. |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2006 S.J. Caplan |
It's Your Turn to Manipulate Data! By obviating endless loops of frustration and inefficiency, interactive data empowers investors to conduct research. Although not heavily reported, the advent of interactive data could quietly revolutionize the financial world. |
InternetNews April 27, 2006 Roy Mark |
Ignoring Net Neutrality, Expanding USF House passes anti-pretexting bill... Cox touts XBRL... etc. |
The Motley Fool August 23, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Meet the SEC If you're an investor, you have a friend. His name is EDGAR (the acronym for the database hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission). |
Bank Technology News February 2002 John M. Covaleski |
XBRL Spurs Great Expectations Two front-running banks aim to streamline their lending and credit analysis operations with Extensible Business Reporting Language... |
The Motley Fool December 31, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
A Shiny New Year for CEO Pay Disclosure While the EDGAR database has gone a while without any major innovations, there's finally some good news to report. It has now upped its functionality by a long shot by offering a new XBRL enhancement. |
CFO January 1, 2009 Alix Stuart |
Which One When? A roundup of key accounting deadlines, developments, and detours to watch for in 2009. |
Information Today May 24, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest EDGAR Online Offers XBRL for Financial Information... Dialog Adds Aroq Market Research... LexisNexis Acquires Verilaw Technologies... |
Investment Advisor August 2007 |
Upgrades The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial have completed their merger, creating The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation... SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said June 14 that he expected the Commission expand an SEC pilot program... etc. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 |
Upgrades LaserFiche has rolled out Intuition... Several mutual funds have begun providing risk/return information using XBRL interactive data... etc. |
Information Today September 27, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Dialog Expands Dialog Choice Pricing Plan... Verity Introduces New Integrated Extractor... EDGAR Online to Offer Reports in XBRL... |
Bank Systems & Technology December 15, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz |
IBM Suggests Global Risk Reporting Standard The Data Governance Council at Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM is seeking to create a global standard for risk reporting |
CIO February 1, 2003 Megan Santosus |
Full Disclosure The electronic financial disclosure system known as Edgar streamlines regulatory compliance and information access for multiple constituencies. It transforms the interface among the investor, stock share issuer and the SEC. |
Wall Street & Technology February 27, 2005 Beth Bacheldor |
A Watchdog to Watch In his first CIO job, Corey Booth, just 34 years old, is leading the IT department of one of the country's most closely watched and influential government agencies: the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
Wired Daniel Roth |
Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now! Financial reporting has become so transparent as to be invisible. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
A Rescue Plan to Save the Beleaguered Accounting Industry A new book called Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting does not break much new ground, but it does an admirable job of tying together a number of topics that have challenged the accounting industry and providing a framework for financial reporting in the future. |
InternetNews July 30, 2004 Clint Boulton |
Standards Bodies to Give the Web Legs In a move to get more users to access the Web via mobile devices, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) have inked an agreement to collaborate on specifications. |
Wired February 2001 |
New Money The middlemen always get paid. But who gets the upper hand in this lucrative middle ground? The SEC will decide as Nasdaq squares off against ECNs... A new day in financial analysis has arrived in the form of the extensible business reporting language, or XBRL... etc. |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Mr. Softy Meets Edgar Microsoft strikes an online deal with financial filings specialist EDGAR Online. |