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The DATA Act:
It’s not just another
unfunded mandate
Joe Kull
PwC
AGA Shenandoah
Chapter
September, 2014
DATA Act
Digital Accountability and Transparency Act
Requires the Department of the Treasury/OMB to:
– Create data standards
– Direct agencies to use the data standards
– All federal spending on the USAspending.gov
Outcomes:
– Spending data is standardized,machine readable
– USAspending.gov will have detailed information
– Available for export and analysis
– Accessible and consumable to the public
– Complete, accurate, searchable
DATA Act timeline
May, ’15 - Issue data standards guidance
- Pilot program [standards, reporting, recipient compliance]
- Option to establish a data center
May ’16 - Pilot continues
May ‘17 - Pilot ends
- Financial information meets data standard
- OMB reports to Congress on data consolidation
- IGs report on agency’s compliance
May ’18 - GAO reports yo Congress
- USAspending conforms to data standards
- Standards apply to all contractor/grantee reporting
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Reporting Environment
Architecting for unpredictability
THEN
NOW
Shareholder
Stakeholder
Medium
Paper
Web
Format
Standard
Custom
Frequency
Periodic [push]
Real-time [pull]
Indicators
Statements [processing]
Metrics [analytics]
Historical
Projected
Costing
Historical Cost
Value-based info
Validation
Audit Accounts
Assure Processes
Consistent
Dynamic
Standards Developed
Standards Imposed
Focus
Data Emphasis
Environment
Compliance
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Global Capital Markets and the Global Economy
• In a world of mass customization, standard financial statements have
less meaning and relevance
• need to verify process by which info is collected, sorted and reported
• Harmonize standards: data, GAAP, audit
• Change [reporting] toward the public release of more non financial
info, customized to user, accessed far more frequently
Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve
• Objectives
– Access to high quality digital info anywhere, anytime, any device
– Manage and procure ‘stuff’ in smart, secure, affordable way
– Unlock power of gov’t data
• Principles
– Information centric-open data and content which can be tagged, secured, and
shared in useful way
– Shared platform-shift infrastructure mindset
– Customer centric-customers shape, share and consume data
– Security and privacy
Data Centric Shifts the focus/culture
Application & System Centric
Standards & Data Centric
• Dependent on system
Integrators, developers,
architects
• Business rules are tied to data
source
• Expensive interfaces and
patches
• Open standards enable
interoperability
• Change is risky and expensive
• Changes made to taxonomy
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• Semantic ‘consensus’
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So let’s ‘containerize’ data and transport it
anywhere…..
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XBRL: standardizing data
• Structured data for quantitative or qualitative
content
• ‘Structured’ data becomes interactive
- Electronic tags allow computer to retrieve data
• An XML dialect
• It’s a freely available, open data standard
• Define the information needed
Built on collaboration and consensus
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XBRL Regulatory Adoption – Publicly
Announced
Government Agencies
• Australian Tax Office
• Committee of European Banking Supervisors
(CEBS)/COREP
+ Chinese Securities Regulation Commission
(CSRC) {sponsoring Shenzen and Shanghai
exchanges}
• Dutch Tax Authority
• Dutch Water Authority
• Spanish Stock Exchange Commission – 3000
companies
• Statistics Dept of Ireland
• Other
- Bank of Japan
- Bundesbank
- Eurostat
- Financial Service Agency of Japan
- The Irish Revenue
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Commercial Financial Services & Others
+ Canadian Securities Regulators
+ KOSDAQ – Korea
+ Bank of Spain
+ National Bank of Belgium
+ National Tax Agency of Japan
+ New Zealand Exchange
+ U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
+ Shanghai Stock Exchange
+ Shenzhen Exchange
+ Tokyo Stock Exchange
+ UK Companies House
+ UK Inland Revenue/HMRC
+ US Federal Financial Institutions
Examination Council (includes FDIC)
Envision a Federal ‘Googlement’
Free and open access Federal financial and
programmatic information.
Put that information out as fast as possible
Make it easy to search, use, and exchange
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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T: (703) 918-1320
joseph.kull@us.pwc.com
Joseph Kull
Director
PwC
July 2012
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