NIEM is to XBRL as United States customary units are to the Metric System.

In addition to improving asset-backed securities disclosure (using XBRL perhaps?), SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro called for substantive ABS regulation in a speech Tuesday to SIFMA, the parent organization…

My blogging pace has slowed because I’ve been able to Tweet most urgent matters and have been spending time away from ranch work on phone calls, most of which are related to business process technology and, potentially, XBRL. This new…

Charlie Hoffman just made the most enlightening post I’ve read in a long time. It’s no accident that the best journalism is the most direct: subject, verb, object. Similarly, clarity is essential to…

CHICAGO — Introducing myself to participants at the 16th National Conference on Managing Electronic Records Conference the past two days, I explained my recent work not as managing electronic records…

Update: CBO has published its cost estimate for H.R. 2392.

Bipartisan legislation to make XBRL the standard for disclosure to the U.S. government has been approved in committee and…

Hernando de Soto’s brilliant Wall Street Journal op-ed today, “Toxic Assets Were Hidden Assets,” contains a wealth of common sense.

A Boston Globe story today, Shedding Light on ‘Dark Pools’, includes this from the head of equities at Fidelity’s brokerage arm:

“I don’t mind if the best price is on an exchange or in my own dark pool,” [Michael]…