Interesting debate yesterday before the US Senate Banking Committee on the topic of expanding disclosures of US companies to include environmental, social and governance data besides just financial disclosures. The US House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing on the same topic last week
At an April 19 hearing of two subcommittees of the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, members wanted to know if the government would hit the deadline." Based on the US House hearing and testimony by government officials – the answer is “YES”
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Importance of Diversity and Inclusion Having an active diversity and inclusion strategy and disclosing these metrics included in the financial report also builds the business case to attract an increasing number of investors looking for this additional data disclosure. The US House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee just created a Diversity and Inclusion subcommittee (the first in the nation’s history) to examine this important human capital topic and to understand what companies are disclosing this data, why and how the capital markets and government can support better disclosure
On the same day - February 6, 2019 -- companion bills were introduced into both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate that would require every public company to disclose in proxy statements: (i) data regarding the racial, ethnic and gender composition of its board of directors, director nominees, and executive officers, as well as the status of any such person as a veteran, in each case, based on voluntary self-identification; and (ii) whether the board has a policy or strategy to promote racial, ethnic and gender diversity among directors, nominees or executive officers
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President Trump on January 14, 2019 signed into law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act ( H.R. 4174 , S. 2046 ), which includes the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (Title II). Strategic Finance Magazine published the following article...
Great tech news article in Federal Computer Week on June 17, 2016 about the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) moving forward with an XML data format for machine-reading of tax forms starting with the non-profit sector for better transparency and data analytics. The announcement...
A similar bill, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013 (H.R. 2061; 113th Congress) , was introduced at the same time in the United States House of Representatives . There was also a previous version of the bill ( H.R. 2146 ) that passed in the House during the 112th United States Congress , but did not become law
” Additionally, Mulvaney suggested in his testimony that OMB could help clarify the White House budget by publishing it using the same standards laid out in the Data Act
We're pleased to announce that Treasury & OMB have selected XBRL late last week as the common data standard that will be used to exchange government financial information as described in this news article . On March 7, 2015 – We posted that in early May the US Treasury and the Office...
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