XBRL Canada is a non-profit consortium formed to foster and encourage the use of XBRL in Canada. XBRL is an internationally recognized standard for electronic business and financial reporting.
Various webinars and other web based events are taking place over coming months sponsored by XBRL.US. Of particular interest to many, in view of the CSA Voluntary Program is the forthcoming webinar on the SEC Voluntary Program, scheduled for June 12. The Website of XBRL.US, listing the various events, is at the linked page: http://www.xbrl.org/us/events/.
posted by Gerald Trites @ 7:15 am
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In March, 2007, a taxonomy for sustainable reporting under the GRI G3 guidelines was released for public comment. To obtain a copy of the taxonomy and comment on it, it can be downloaded from the following site: GRI Portal - XBRL
posted by Gerald Trites @ 10:52 am
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A Seminar was held yesterday at the CICA offices in Toronto on the CSA voluntary filing program. Speakers were Andrew Lowe of the OSC, Eric Cohen of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Gerald Trites of XBRL Canada, with an introduction by Bob Cuthbertson of Caseware. The presentations that were made can be downloaded from the XBRL Canada Website at: Welcome to XBRL Canada
posted by Gerald Trites @ 2:21 pm
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The XBRL Canada domain Group has added to it's website at the link below a concise little guide on how to get started on the CSA Voluntary Filing Program, scheduled to start this month. The program, which is similar to that of the SEC, involves filing XBRL instance documents with the commissions and on SEDAR. With the recent announcements by Chairman COX that they will be requiring the filing of XBRL statements, Canadian crosslisted companies will be required to file XBRL statements. Also, there is the possibility that the CSA will follow the SEC and make it mandatory, although this is speculative at this point. Welcome to XBRL Canada
posted by Gerald Trites @ 10:15 am
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There is another report out that the SEC is planning to make XBRL mandatory. This time it's from the Financial Times reporting on a speech by Chairman Cox yesterday in Washington. FT.com / World - SEC aims to improve financial data
posted by Gerald Trites @ 2:16 pm
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The reporting of executive compensation has been an issue for sme time, and soon the SEC will be including it in their XBRL voluntary filing Program. In this article, John Gray of Canada Business Online outlines the issue and mentions how XBRL can help. Plain English, please Columnists John Gray Canadian Business Online
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