Wednesday, April 28, 2010

IASB - Call for interest to Public Companies listed in the US who file in IFRS

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is rapidly becoming the global standard for electronic financial reporting. The IASC Foundation has played an important role in encouraging the development of online financial reporting using XBRL. In December 2008, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules that require all US-listed Foreign Private Issuers (FPIs) to submit their financial reports, including their periodic reports, in Interactive Data format, and specifically in XBRL. FPIs, which will be mandated to file with XBRL in IFRS from June 15, 2011, are invited to participate in a pilot initiative being coordinated by the IASC Foundation. The pilot will focus on FPI use of the IFRS Taxonomy 2010 to tag SEC filings in XBRL. (Read the Call for interest to Public Companies listed in the US who currently file financial reports with the US SEC in IFRS.)