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Comment on Quick Quiz: Which company gives executives up to $15,000 for tax return preparations? by James Gibbons

James Gibbons — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:12:30 +0000

Good quiz

Comment on Should there be an XBRL professional certification? by Hendrika Tibbits

Hendrika Tibbits — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:09:53 +0000

Hi Liv,

I agree that there should be a minimum level of certification but would you also include extensions designed by the in-house financial staff? There has been research on the use of extensions and this would suggest that there is quite a view adaptations which could have been ommitted if the user had used the appicable taxonomy correctly. But….perhaps that is emphasizing the need for certification? Perhaps this could be a certification like the financial advisors do?

Assurance services could be extended to certify that the correct Taxonomy has been used but perhaps this will increase the cost for the preparer?

The tertiary educators in Australia have little interest for coverage of this topic into their curriculum (I tried!)

Cheers
Hendrika

Comment on Hot job market predicted for compliance officers and examiners by Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:25:02 +0000

I have been a compliance officer for 11 years. To become a compliance officer would depend first on what field you were entering. I am a healthcare compliance officer and what employers would typically be looking for is either a JD, MBA, CPA, RN degree with experience in hospital administration with working knowledge of Medicare & Medicaid laws and regulations as well as federal laws related to healthcare.

Comment on Should there be an XBRL professional certification? by Liv Watson

Liv Watson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:51:42 +0000

XBRL Certification Program:

I think there are different level of Certification that needs to be in place. On the taxonomy level the XBRL jurisdcitons that have an ifrastructure could give taxonomy and instance document and even assurance certifications (several of jurisdcition do not have that in place today) but on a global level for the specification that impact technology vendors I think there must be an intertional certification as a vendor does not want the associate cost and confusion with certification in each jurisdiction. That said, the accounting institutes should also have a say in the certification as some taxonomies are GAAP related. So the question is, will their be specific taxonomy certifications? at the end of the day we need to look a the market place and not make this to complecated and some sort of Intertional blessing must be in place or we risk many certifications that will couse confusiion in the market place. Does XBRL intertional have the infrastuture to do so at the moment.I would say no.. but XBRL International have dcreated recentley a working group to look into the matter and I encourage everyone to send your comments to XBRL Inernational and/or your local XBRL jurisdctions.

Liv Watson

Comment on Quick Quiz: Which of the following can be found in Dubai? by suresh

suresh — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:06:31 +0000

More construction workers than actual citizens

Comment on Hot job market predicted for compliance officers and examiners by admin

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:31:51 +0000

Here’s a job description from Compliance Week magazine, http://www.complianceweek.com/article/1279/sample-job-description
-chief-compliance-officer you might find useful.

Comment on High speed automated trading: aid or threat to market liquidity? by James Gibbons

James Gibbons — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:03:36 +0000

Senator harkin is 99% interested in taxing anything that thinks or moves. Such legislation is usually passed, forgotten about and the legislators move to the next idea to raise $$$ for the guv’ment.

Enforcement, updating, etc. is forgotten. The traders develop a new way to sidetrack the legislation and its increase in their cost of doing business.

Comment on Hot job market predicted for compliance officers and examiners by Chris Spagna

Chris Spagna — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:08:11 +0000

How does one become a compliance officer? Thanks.

Comment on Should there be an XBRL professional certification? by Rakesh Sud

Rakesh Sud — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:10:47 +0000

What is the latest on XBRL certification?

Comment on New IR Solution renders XBRL reports on corporate websites into clear English with interactive views by Let your computer read the fine print for you » EDGAReView

Let your computer read the fine print for you » EDGAReView — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:59:39 +0000

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