Archive for April 20th, 2011

20 April 2011: SEC announces roundtable on IFRS

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will hold a roundtable on 7 July in Washington to discuss benefits and challenges in incorporating International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) into the financial reporting system for U.S. issuers.

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20 April 2011: Deloitte issues comment letter on offsetting exposure draft

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Deloitte’s IFRS Global Office has submitted a letter of comment on exposure draft ED/2011/01 Offsetting Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities. The comment letter expresses Deloitte’s views on the IASB and FASB’s efforts to converge presentation re…

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20 April 2011: The Bruce Column – Cluttering Up the Materiality Arguments

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The UK Accounting Standards Board has just released its latest effort
aimed at encouraging the removal of clutter from financial reporting disclosures, but will it change
the behaviours of those involved in producing the increasingly dense document…

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20 April 2011: Roundtables on offsetting proposals – Registration for London webcast now open

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As reported earlier, the IASB and FASB are holding several public roundtable
meetings in May 2011 to discuss the financial asset and financial liability offsetting project.
Registration for the webcast of the London roundtable on 3 May 2011 is now …

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20 April 2011: Updated Global Filing Manual for XBRL

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The Interoperable Taxonomy Architecture (ITA) Project has published an updated version of ‘The Global Filing Manual’.
The updates include new rules that relate specifically to iXBRL (Inline XBRL).

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