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Better ESG Data Already Exist

The burden is on the financial community. ESG assessments are being incorporated into the Due Diligence process, but it is painstaking and expensive. Transparency is sorely lacking, unintentional green-washing is likely rampant, and even when the data is there, the structure often is not.

ESG

Transparency in ESG Research

We need to go further to meet the needs of modern ESG stakeholders. What can you do with better research tools to further a more sustainable future?

Does “ESG” Investing Need Another “S”?

The Status Quo is UnstructuredStructuring data does not happen in a vacuum. Across a global landscape of competing reporting frameworks, unique localities exist with their history and norms. These overlapping frameworks are the

New ESG Data for the Principled Investors

Significant initiatives have been launched to establish international taxonomies for sustainability reporting. Still, the development and implementation of normative standards will take time on the global stage.

ESG

Connecting Financial and Sustainability Reporting Globally

idaciti is keeping up to date with significant developments in ESG data reporting to ensure that idaciti continues to lead the way in bringing XBRL-powered data to market participants.

ESG

Better Data May Be the Key to Unlocking Sustainable Investment

There is a big difference when companies report ESG data in a machine-readable, standardized format. The market needs the data in a structured form to use in trading algorithms. Investors need this data

Financial Analysis

SPACs: A View Under the Hood with idaciti

Popular but opaque, SPACs charge ahead in 2020. Trending this year, SPACs are receiving widespread media and investor interest. On any given day, you can turn on CNBC and hear that all star

ESG

Sustainability Reporting Standard - One Step Closer to Reality

With idaciti, we can show you how sustainability data can be mashed up with corporate financial data and clearly show the impact of environmental and governance issues on public company financial performance.

Disclosure Research

The Social Side of idaciti - A Human Approach to Financial Research and Analysis

Data alone can’t do anything. It’s up to us to ask questions, form hypotheses, connect the dots, make judgments, and collaborate. The human element plays a critical role in decision making, and only people can decide which intelligence to draw on and how to interpret the results.

Disclosure Research

Keeping Abreast with Recent SEC Regulation S-K Amendments - Human Capital Resources

Disclosing how your company treats its employees is becoming more critical as investors include these necessary signals into their investment decisions. You can see from the selected examples above the breadth of human capital-related topics being disclosed across companies.

XBRL + Technology = Powerful Insights

Financial statements tagged using XBRL opens up opportunities for data users to automatically access detailed, filer-supplied data. The machine-readable format creates efficiencies and cost-savings for users to use the data to gain better

Can Innovation and Creativity Solve the XBRL Data Quality Issue?

One of the hurdles for issuers to overcome when tagging or reviewing the XBRL tags (i.e., "elements") of their filings is to step back and: (1) compare the tags in the current

Choosing your Financial Data Source: Details Matter

XBRL instances include, as data fields, every fact reported in the face of financial statements and footnotes to the financials. When a data vendor adopts the XBRL-first process, it harvests every last one of these data points and serves them up ready to be used to its users.

XBRL: A Single Source of Truth

Every day, investment professionals parse through corporate financial reports, download selected numbers, plug those numbers into their calcu

Disclosure Research

Being Human: It's about Connection and Connecting the Dots

Our platform helps investors and analysts quickly discover patterns and anomalies in the data to generate new insights. We also marry textual and quantitative data so that users can quickly discover relationships and patterns never seen before.

Disclosure Research

COVID-19 and Debt Covenant Violations - Sign of what is to Come

At idaciti, our Disclosure Research application can provide you with up-to-the-minute alerts on debt covenant violations and renegotiations.

Financial Analysis

The Tsunami of Filings

Dealing with the financial data tsunami requires XBRL data and technology as complementary solutions. Trying to survive this onslaught with one solution but not the other is like swimming against the tide.

Why High-Quality XBRL Should Be on Everyone's Radar

Recently, we posted a blog about the importance of XBRL data quality. We noted with great interest the post last week by Wes Bricker (PwC Vice Chair, US and Mexico Assurance Leader and

Disclosure Research

Materiality is in the Eye of the Beholder

This notion of materiality leaves the judgment of whether to disclose or not disclose to management and the board of directors, who may not have the same perspective as investors who are managing a portfolio of investments.

iXBRL

How to Truly Democratize the Availability & Usability of Financial and ESG Data

Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is a success.” That quote rings so true when the end goal is to democratize the availability

Disclosure Research

Watch What They Do, Not What They Say - Executive Pay in the Pandemic

Many companies are faced with balancing competing responsibilities to various stakeholders. Has executive compensation escaped part of the swathe of corporate cuts?

ESG

E-S-G, as Easy as 1-2-3

Try idaciti applications for free and see for yourself how you can access audit fees and other corporate-governance related data points.

Work Smarter, not Harder. The New Game Plan for CFOs

In today’s challenging environment, companies and their employees are facing unprecedented obstacles. Employees are working remotely while juggling childcare and online classes for their children. Companies are actively managing risk from all

Accountability for Accounting

“Accounting is the language of business”, Warren Buffett once proclaimed. Being one of the most famous investors of all time, we are sure that all of us can learn from his great wisdom.

iXBRL

In Data We Trust.In High-Quality Data We Shine.

Paying close attention to your company’s XBRL filing quality is essential for your company to control the messaging to the investors, analysts, the public, and the SEC.