Efficient and Effective Government Reporting - XBRL Canada Annual Conference

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XBRL Canada held its annual conference in Ottawa at the Chateau Laurier on October 17th from 9AM - 4PM.

The conference did focus on Standardized Business Reporting (SBR) and its usefulness for the Canadian Government. Many departments collect reports from the public. However, the departments all have different systems for collecting the data, which means their public constituencies need to use many different systems. SBR enables costs to be reduced both for governments and for the filers.

The conference featured in the morning guest speakers who:

• have played a significant role in the implementation of SBR in other countries, like The Netherlands, Australia and Great Britain;
• have been involved in the new Data Act in the US
• are playing a key role in Canadian Government programs that can benefit considerably from SBR;

Also, we had interactive panel discussions focusing on opportunities for SBR in government departments and agencies.

Seminar on XBRL Project Implementation

On October 18th, there was an additional seminar discussing the basic components of an XBRL/SBR project implementation from the Government’s and agencies' perspective, as well as the internal use of XBRL. It included resources and materials to start a project, case studies, business cases and other reference documentation and software solutions. 

Topics included:

• The main components of an XBRL/SBR program
• Practical demonstrations on how to XBRL-enable existing software applications and re-engineer internal data-related processes using XBRL