Federal Computer Week published a great story on Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) confirmation hearings as the next OMB Director of the US Government. Congressman Mulvaney (Tea Party Leader in Congress) stressed the importance of getting accurate and useful data in order to inform his and...
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...
Interesting story in FCW about the current implementation by the DATA Act by the US Federal Government… The DATA Act requires the use of the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) data standard for the tagging of both business and financial data for better transparency and...
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Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) will be introducing the Financial Transparency Act of 2015 that will mandate standards like XBRL across the capital markets and possible link to the Global Legal Entity Initiative (LEI). This announcement today, follows the announcement last week from the...
Interesting debate yesterday before the US Senate Banking Committee on the topic of expanding disclosures of US companies to include environmental, social and governance data besides just financial disclosures
Dear TSP Committee Members: Below is a link to a US GAO Report to the US Senate Finance Committee earlier this month on the need to support better accountability and transparency through "data tagging" of financial information across government to better track billions of dollars of US taxpayer money distributed to government agencies to assist and protect the public
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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President Trump on January 14, 2019 signed into law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act ( H.R. 4174 , S. 2046 ), which includes the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (Title II). Strategic Finance Magazine published the following article...
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