XBRL News about audits, LEIs and ESG

admin 23 December 2021 Technology & Digitalization 0

Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week.

1 Technology and the future of audits

Wes Bricker, Vice Chair and co-leader of Trust Solutions at PwC and Chair of XBRL International, joins this episode to explain how technology is changing the corporate audit, the bumps in the road with the adoption of machine readable reporting, and what to expect with emerging ESG standards.

We are referring you to spoken instead of written word for once, i.e. a podcast episode, which is nicely reflecting the status quo. However, Bricker was not offering real forward looking perspective in regards to technology’s impact on auditing (auditchain for example?), and he was responding evasively to the question about conflicts of interest handling in PwC’s merger of tax and audit departments.

2 EIOPA issues revised guidelines on Legal Entity Identifier

The objective of the revised Guidelines is to facilitate and further promote the use of LEI as unique identification code for legal entities. By harmonising the identification of legal entities ensuring high quality, reliable and comparable data, the Guidelines will continue to establish consistent, efficient and effective supervisory practices.

LEIs are an important part of the fully digitised reporting workflow transformation, but often poorly understood.

3 ESG reporting has joined the mainstream as standards setting begins

2021 has in many ways been the “year of ESG” – of environmental, social and governance issues – and has seen several crucially important developments, particularly in terms of sustainability reporting standards and requirements.

This is a nice summary of what probably amounts to the most consequential development of the year in reporting.

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Christian Dreyer CFA is well known in Swiss Fintech circles as an expert in XBRL and financial reporting for investors.

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XBRL News about audits, LEIs and ESG