The article by Ruth Simon of the WSJ provides great background and specifics about the rule and how small companies and investors can utilize crowdfunding to obtain capital directly from Main Street, USA. FYI. Liv Watson , Senior Director Strategic Customer Initiatives at Workiva and member of the IMA Technology Solutions Practices Committee gave us an alert yesterday from the International Organization of Securities Commissioners IOSCO Annual Conference in Lima, Peru that this SME Crowdfunding Rule would be finalized when Mary Jo White, Chair of the US Securities & Exchange Commission addressed delegates attending the global securities regulator/ stock exchange conference and spoke of the significance to the SME capital markets place and crowdfunding
The IMA supports the use of the XBRL data standard for both public company financial statement and government financial statement disclosures and is one of the original members of the XBRL Consortium through the leadership of Ms. Liv Watson (at that time – an IMA Board Member) and early evangelist of the XBRL data standard for the IMA
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The European Parliament has voted in favor of new rules that will strengthen shareholder rights and facilitate cross-border voting under the Shareholders Rights Directive as the new Trump Presidential administration moves in the complete opposite direction related to enhanced corporate...
Great article in Accounting Today by Daniel Hood (Editor) today about the accounting profession and its relationship to technology… From Accounting Today: T homson Reuters’ Jon Baron … roughly a third of them (accountants) are dooming themselves to extinction by not embracing change and...
ATTENTION: IMA MEMBERS -- Its not too late to register for the DATA AMPLIFIED GLOBAL CONFERENCE IN PARIS The IMA is an ASSOCIATION PARTNER and Strategic Finance Magazine is a Media Partner for the Conference 15% DISCOUNT IS AVAILABLE FOR IMA MEMBERS AROUND THE WORLD USING IMA15 DISCOUNT CODE WHEN REGISTERING FOR THE CONFERENCE European Securities & Markets Authority (ESMA), European Central Bank (EBA) and other European Regulators will be discussing mandates requiring the use of XBRL for business reporting data format including updates related to the US Securities & Exchange Commission (US SEC) regarding the mandate using Inline XBRL and the opportunity for foreign filers to use the IFRS accounting standard if using the XBRL data standard Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, Smart Contract, Sustainability Reporting/Accounting and the use of LEI to be some of the additional topics to be discussed at the global conference. IMA Members; Liv Watson (FOUNDER OF XBRL), Brad Monterio and Kris Brands among the speakers At DATA AMPLIFIED CONFERENCE See MEDIA ADVISORY BELOW for DETAILS: DATA AMPLIFIED CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN PARIS, FRANCE ON NOVEMBER 6-8, 2017 Data Amplified 2017 Conference entitled: “Amplify your Business
IMA is one of the original founders of the XBRL global data standard ( Ms. Liv Watson , IMA member and Mother of XBRL) for structured data used by the accounting profession for public disclosure, business and financial reporting so data can be in a machine-readable format
The IMA supports the build-out of XBRL because it allows management accountants to move away from keying data into Excel spreadsheets and move to data analytics – predictive analytics for companies they serve. Ms. Liv Watson, IMA member and senior executive at Workiva is known as the “Mother of XBRL”. She has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to gain support and adoption of XBRL global data standard by the accounting profession to support the management accountant. Ms. Watson serves on the IMA’s Technology Solutions Practices Committee and has been an IMA for more than 25 years. Ms. Watson has written a book about XBRL called, “XBRL for Dummies ” with Charles Hoffman the “Father of XBRL" that discusses the history and use of the data standard in the United States and abroad
Great article in CFO Magazine by Russ Banham on the quickly expanding role CFOs and their finance teams are now assuming beyond the management of financial information critical to the operation of the enterprise they pilot. The Finance team is quickly becoming the “de facto”...
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...