XBRL US Data Quality Committee Announces Public Review of Second Set of Guidance and Rules for SEC Filers

NEW YORK, June 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- XBRL US announced the start of its second public exposure period for guidance and rules developed by the Data Quality Committee (DQC), which is funded through the Center for Data Quality. The Committee is responsible for developing guidance and validation rules that can prevent or detect inconsistencies or errors in XBRL data filed with the SEC and focuses on data quality issues that adversely affect data analysis.

The public review that launched today contains guidance and five new proposed rules, as well as proposed additions to the DQC's previously issued rule to detect inappropriate negative values. The proposed guidance and rules will help filers identify errors in the XBRL data due to inappropriate combinations of concepts, concepts that are no longer supported by the US GAAP Taxonomy and inappropriate positive or negative values. The DQC's analysis shows that the use of these proposed rules would have identified potential errors in over 800,000 data points submitted to the SEC in the last year. 

Comments received during the 60-day public review period will be evaluated for incorporation into final rules that will be made freely available and will be contributed to the open source Arelle XBRL platform. The public will be able to review a plain English description of the rules and guidance and be able to submit comments. Developers can download the open source code to incorporate into their own software, to use as a reference implementation against their software and to provide feedback.

To participate in the public review, go to:http://publicreview.xbrl.us. 

Members of the XBRL US Center for Data Quality include Altova, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), Certent, DataTracks, DisclosureNet, Merrill Corporation, P3 Data Systems, Vintage, a division of PR Newswire, and Workiva. For more information on the XBRL US Data Quality Committee and the Center for Data Quality, go to:  http://xbrl.us/data-quality

About XBRL US
XBRL US is the non-profit consortium for XBRL business reporting standards in the U.S. and it represents the business information supply chain. Its mission is to support the implementation of XBRL business reporting standards through the development of taxonomies for use by U.S. public and private sectors, with a goal of interoperability between sectors, and by promoting XBRL adoption through marketplace collaboration. XBRL US has developed taxonomies for U.S. GAAP, credit rating and mutual fund reporting under contract with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and has developed a taxonomy for corporate actions.

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