Business Wire Hosts Expert Panel For Discussion on XBRL
Representatives from the SEC, XBRL U.S. and Comcast Will Discuss SEC’s Proposed Mandate Requiring XBRL Filing
LOS ANGELES (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 17, 2008 -- Business Wire this week will present a distinguished panel of XBRL experts discussing eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) and the proposed mandate by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would require publicly traded U.S. companies to adopt XBRL-based financial reporting. The live webinar, titled “Understanding XBRL and the SEC’s Proposed Rule,” will take place on Thursday, November 20 at 1 p.m. EST at BusinessWire.com.
Michael Becker, Business Wire’s Vice President, Global Disclosure and Financial Reporting Services, will moderate the panel. The featured panelists are:
- Michelle Savage, Vice President, Communication, XBRL U.S.
- David Blaszkowsky, Director, Office of Interactive Disclosure, U.S. SEC, and
- Phillip Gaudreau, Manager, Accounting Projects, Comcast Corporation.
XBRL-formatted financial documents are tagged to uniquely identify individual items within the filing, allowing the data to be easily searched for online, downloaded into spreadsheets, reorganized in databases and easily compared and analyzed. Earlier this year, the SEC officially proposed a mandate which would require publicly traded U.S. companies to use XBRL to file their financial reports.
A September national survey of 688 chief financial officers and senior comptrollers conducted by Grant Thornton found that, while more than half of CFOs were familiar with XBRL, only two percent of respondents currently use tagged data in their company’s financial filings. Under the SEC’s proposed mandate, Fortune 500 companies would be expected to adopt the format as early as next spring, with other companies phased in over the next two years.
Business Wire, a longstanding member of the XBRL International Consortium, provides its clients with value-added XBRL services to facilitate a seamless transition to the new business reporting standard.
Business Wire’s free XBRL webinar, “Understanding XBRL and the SEC’s Proposed Rule” is open to the public:
- Thursday, November 20 beginning at 1 p.m. EST
- Register today at www.BusinessWire.com/cnn/XBRL.
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