SEC Enhances Program to Facilitate Analysis of Financial Data

January 8, 2015, New York (HedgeCo.Net)— The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced the launch of a pilot program to facilitate investor analysis and comparisons of public company financial statement data. Under the new program, data that companies provide in structured formats will be combined and organized into structured data sets and posted for bulk downloads on the SEC’s website for use by investors and academics.  The data sets initially will contain financial statement data from eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) exhibits as filed with the SEC.  They plan to further expand this program this year to include data in footnotes to the financial statements.

The SEC requires U.S. public companies to structure the data in their quarterly and annual financial reports using XBRL, which is machine-readable.  The structured data files are available in the SEC’s EDGAR database as exhibits to company filings.  To facilitate the use of this information, the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis will organize it into combined data sets on the SEC’s website in formats other than XBRL.  The data posted will be as reported by filers; no changes will be made to the information.  Each data set posted will include all of the relevant filings submitted for the particular quarter or year.

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