Biography
Mohini Singh is director of financial reporting policy at CFA Institute. She represents membership interests regarding financial reporting and disclosure proposals issued by the FASB, the IASB, and others. Singh holds the Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) designation.
For regulators to efficiently handle extremely large data sets, it will be easier with the imminent release of xBRL-CSV. An example from Spanish bank BBVA shows the value of this approach.
The PCAOB would like to hear from investors and is conducting an investor-specific survey in addition to their general request for comment. The deadline to complete the survey is May 29th.
Electronic signatures on audit reports should not just be permitted but, indeed, be required. Introducing e-signatures is a useful step toward increasing the digital usability and security of reports.
The XBRL webinar Data Analytics to Set Policy, Evaluate Investments, and More explains how access to better data is generating new ideas and enabling better decisions for everyone from standard setters and government policy makers to hedge funds, other buy-side firms, corporations.
reating the data using Inline XBRL would make it much easier for various parties to access, analyze, and reuse such information to improve pandemic management — just as it improves financial reporting.
Given the increased importance of company ESG disclosures, ESMA increased their enforcement activities on nonfinancial information in 2019.
CFA Institute supports preserving the previous accelerated filer definition. The new one weakens investor protections.
A new comment letter from CFA Institute to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) demonstrates the value of using structured data to inform debate and support policy decisions.
Recent business failures in the United Kingdom and the related media attention again have raised the question of audit quality.
CFA Institute has long supported and advocated for one set of high-quality financial reporting standards for both public and private companies.
CFA Institute has supported the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) efforts to establish a European Single Electronic Format (ESEF).
XBRL US held Investor Forum 2019: Driving Actionable Analytics in New York on 4 November.
According to the October 2019 report Climate-Related Corporate Reporting from the UK Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Financial Reporting Lab,
Beginning in 2019, certain public companies’ audit reports will begin to contain new information
When it comes to ESG reporting, survey respondents and roundtable participants say that they incorporate governance factors into their investment analysis to a greater extent than they incorporate environmental and social factors.