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IFRS Accounting Standard Will Support Better Investment Decisions

IFRS 18 responds to investors' concerns about challenges in comparing companies' financial performance.

The First Republic Takeover: What Happened?

First Republic’s investment of its significant uninsured deposits in jumbo loans left it illiquid in a rising interest rate environment.

Financial Reporting and Analysis Today: Using XBRL to Make the Process Faster and Easier

With over 150 million data points in this structured database, XBRL has the potential to increase the volume, speed, and access to corporate financial reporting and analysis.

Heads Up Investors! The Implications of Evolving Audit Services

Increasingly, auditors are expected to have a bigger and more effective role in ensuring the integrity of a wider array of company reported information that is material to investment decision making.

Automation of Financial Reporting: Greater Efficiencies, Lower Costs

Transforming regulatory reporting from documents into data can make markets more efficient, empower investors, and improve regulatory oversight while also reducing compliance costs.

Financial Reporting Needs to Embrace the Digital Revolution

Structured data, data analytics, and technology can bring greater efficiency for all parties in the financial reporting chain.

Early Adopters of IFRS Signal Commitment to Quality Financial Reporting

The benefits of adopting IFRS that firms enjoy depends on when they adopt, what reporting standards were like in their jurisdiction, and how well those standards are enforced.

Sliding Down the Slippery Slope: Simplified Standards for Small Public Companies?

The reasons behind possibly extending account alternatives to public companies are different from when those alternatives were extended to private companies, and they are not the right reasons.

Solving the Conundrum Presented by Non-GAAP Financial Measures

How companies present non-GAAP financial measures can be misleading and can undermine GAAP/IFRS performance measures.

DQC Continues Quest to Improve Data Quality: New Validation Rules Open for Comment

The second set of proposed XBRL guidance and validation rules from the US DQC are now open for public review and comment. We encourage you to participate. Deadline is 31 August.