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Founded in 2011, Calcbench is the first company of its kind to fully harness the power of the new interactive data standard XBRL, bringing unprecedented insight into the SEC’s corporate financial data repository. Calcbench provides a completely new experience researching financial and accounting data. Covering more than 12,000 US listed public companies, we make data easier to use, faster, and in more detail than ever before.

When has Calcbench been in the news? Take a trip through our archives.


In the News:

2025

• Meta's AI Server Accounting Shift Reveals the Power of Assumptions, Bloomberg, March 17, 2025

2024

• A beginner’s guide to US earnings season, Financial Times, October 18, 2024
• May 22, 2024: Corporate America Continues to Embrace Non-GAAP Financial Reporting
• S&P 500 Companies Boost Profit by Stripping More Items From Earnings, Bloomberg, May 22, 2024

2023

• A Wave of Corporate Refinancings Is Coming. This Time, It Won’t Lead to Layoffs., Barrons, December 28, 2023
• US Companies Opting to Refinance 2024 Debt Face Profit Hit as Higher Rates Bite, Bloomberg, November 14, 2023
• US Companies Scramble to Cut Costs, Pay Down Debt as Interest Rates Surge, Bloomberg, June 14, 2023
• June 1, 2023: Fintech Data Platform Calcbench, in partnership with Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School, Announce Third Annual Non-GAAP report
• Business Is Slowing. So Companies Are Juicing Profits., WSJ, June 1, 2023
• Earnings Adjustments Topped an Average of $1 Billion for Big Companies Last Year, WSJ, May 31, 2023
• Corporate America Hit by Rate-Sticker Shock, Bloomberg, May 22, 2023
• April 24, 2023: Calcbench Announces Two Corporate Debt Reports
• Auditors Didn’t Flag Risks Building Up in Banks, WSJ, April 10, 2023
• Higher Rates Are Coming for U.S. Companies, WSJ, March 28, 2023
• The SVB Collapse: FASB Should Eliminate "Hide-‘Til-Maturity" Accounting, CFA Institute, march 21, 2023
• CEOs beware: cost-cutting isn’t the same as growth, Financial Times, January 16, 2023
• January 11, 2023: Calcbench Announces New Corporate Debt Report

2022

• CFA Institute Research Foundation and Calcbench Announce Partnership, Calcbench, October 3, 2022
• Finance Chiefs Struggle to Set Guidance as Economy Flashes Mixed Signals, CFO Journal, September 12, 2022
• September 15, 2022: S&P 500 goodwill assets near $4 trillion, a five year high
• Many banks to pay higher taxes under Inflation Reduction Act, American Banker, August 25, 2022
• The Corporate Minimum Tax Could Hit These Ultra-profitable Companies, Washington Post, August 11, 2022
• U.S. companies are still making billions of dollars of adjustments to make earnings look better, MarketWatch, June 10, 2022
• March 16, 2022: Calcbench, in partnership with Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School Announce non-GAAP report
• Companies Size Up Their Losses on Russian Operations, WSJ, April 14, 2022
• March 16, 2022: Calcbench Announces Share BuyBack Report
• Companies Divesting From Russia Are Facing Big Write-Downs, CFO Journal, March 3, 2022

2021

• November 1, 2021: Fintech Data Platform Leader Calcbench Announces Supply Chain Data Webinar
• Who Could Pay More With a 15% Corporate Minimum Tax?, WSJ, October 28, 2021
• Big Numbers at Stake in Long-Running Goodwill Accounting Debate, Bloomberg, September 23, 2021
• As IRS audits waned, big businesses racked up unapproved tax breaks, Washington Post, July 14, 2021
• May 20, 2021: Fintech Data Platform Leader Calcbench Announces New Earnings Release Features
• Clorox’s Move to Provide Adjusted EPS Raises Concerns, WSJ CFO Journal, May 4, 2021
• U.S. companies went right back to heavy use of nonstandard accounting metrics during the pandemic, Marketwatch, April 27, 2021
• February 24, 2021: Calcbench Webinar: How Data Analytics is Changing the Field of Accounting
• Companies Put the Best Face on Covid-19’s Financial Impact, WSJ, February 23, 2021
• GameStop Rally Highlights Buyback Risk. Exhibit A: Bed Bath & Beyond., WSJ, February 4, 2021

2020

• October 29, 2020: Calcbench Announces Earnings Release Feature Updates; Positions Itself as the Leader in Earnings Press Release Data
• Companies Adjust Earnings for Covid-19 Costs, but Are They Still a One-Time Expense?, WSJ, September 24, 2020
• Coronavirus Shows Cash Is King, Even for Biggest U.S. Companies, WSJ, March 25, 2020
• Minding the GAAP: companies are using a wider range of accounting metrics, Fortune, January 24, 2020
• Goodwill Sparks Deep Division, at Least on Balance Sheets, WSJ, January 21, 2020

2019

• Airlines Get a Break in New Accounting for Leases, WSJ, November 15, 2019
• After U.S. Tax Overhaul, Corporate Rates Fall but Unevenly, WSJ, July 21, 2019
• Ten Years of XBRL: Financial-reporting experts reflect, Merrill Dimensions, June 20, 2019
• Big Companies Tightened Spending as Trade Fears Intensified, WSJ, May 20, 2019
• Leases: What Investors Need to Know About the New Standard, CFA Institute, April 4, 2019
• The Sanders, Schumer Buyback Test Would Block Almost All Company Stock Repurchases, MarketWatch, February 12, 2019
• Apple Rattled Markets With Warning About China. Who's Next?, WSJ, January 14, 2019
• More Companies Flag a New Risk: Artificial Intelligence, WSJ, January 9, 2019

2018

• Oct 4, 2018: Calcbench Announces Operating Lease Report in Anticipation of New Accounting Standard Implementation
• May 1, 2018: Calcbench Announces Enhanced Text Disclosure Research
• February 12, 2018: Calcbench Announces New Earnings Release Features
• ADT Fined Over Reporting Failures, CFO, December 27, 2018
• What CPAs Should Know About the New Leasing Standards, accountingWEB, October 11, 2018
• Banks, Businesses Brace For Far-Reaching Accounting Standard Changes, PYMNTS.com, October 9, 2018
• Lease tools emerge to aid in last-minute adoption work, Compliance Week, October 4, 2018
• New Public Company Auditor Disclosures, CFA Institute, September 30, 2018
• Accelerated Share Repurchases: Managing EPS?, Seeking Alpha, September 21, 2018
• Case Studies In The Changing Use of Structured Data, CFA Institute, September 12, 2018
• Accelerated Share Repurchases Help Execs, Not Investors, CFO Magazine, August 7, 2018
• Are the Tax Cuts Working? What to Watch in 12 Charts, Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2018
• Executives at LI Companies Got Median Pay Raise of 5.6% Last Year, Newsday, June 15, 2018
• Closer CEO Pay Ratios May Generate Higher Profit Per Worker, CNBC, May 3, 2018
• The New Corporate Diet- Fatter Profits, Skinnier Tax Bills, Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2018
• What Will Corporate America Do With Tax Savings?, Morgan Stanley Ideas, March 29, 2018
• How the Tax Overhaul Will Affect Tech Companies’ Earnings, Wall Street Journal, January 30, 2018

2017

• October 2, 2017: Study: Large U.S. Corporations Pay Taxes at Average 22.8 Percent
• February 6, 2017: How Much Does Corporate America Depend on Foreign Revenue?
• October 27, 2016: How Long Does it Take to Announce Earnings? Calcbench Study Examines Time to Publish Earnings, File Quarterly Report
• Editorial: Tax Bill Goes Astray, Boston Herald, December 10, 2017
• Companies are starting to tell the SEC about how bitcoin impacts their business, MarketWatch, December 8, 2017
• Companies Push to Repeal AMT After Senate’s Last-Minute Move to Keep It Alive, Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2017
• Structured Data's Evolution and Analysts, CFA Institute Magazine, October 3, 2017
• Earnings season is still a headache and shareholders shouldn’t stand for it, Marketwatch, August 25, 2017
• Software companies could take a hit from revenue recognition standard, Accounting Today, August 23, 2017
• When Non-GAAP Reporting Meets FCPA, Radical Compliance, August 9, 2017
• New revenue rules mean more work for companies, big revenue for consultants and auditors, Marketwatch, July 26, 2017
• Financial Reporting and Analysis Today: Making the Process Easier, Faster & Better, NYSSA, May 4, 2017
• VIDEO: Financial Reporting and Analysis Today: Making the Process Easier, Faster & Better, NYSSA, May 4, 2017

Older

• September 19, 2016: Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Adds Calcbench – Yielding an Unprecedented Direct Line into the SEC’s Corporate Financial Data Repository
• June 28, 2016: Mind the Non-GAAP: Inflating Net Income by $164 Billion or More
• October 5, 2015: Calcbench to Provide XBRL based Financial Data to SEC Analysts
• January 15, 2015: Calcbench Supports XBRL & Opposes the "Small Company Disclosure Simplification Act"
• September 10, 2014: Calcbench Launches Excel Add-in, Giving Users Greater Flexibility & Ease-of-Use
• April 1, 2014: Calcbench Announces Launch of innovative Footnotes Query for Finance Professionals Looking for a Better Way to Analyze Footnote Data
• March 27, 2014: Calcbench Co-Founder Appointed to FASB’s XBRL Taxonomy Advisory Group to Help Inform and Influence the Interactive Data Movement
• March 12, 2014: Corporate Data Providers Opposed to H.R. 4164, Reducing Transparency for Small Companies
• Weekend Reads for Investors: Post-Election Pick-Me-Up, Enterprising Investor, November 11, 2016
• Profits Up at Biggest Georgia Businesses, AJC, August 24, 2016
• One More Reason for Investors to Worry About ‘Earnings Before Bad Stuff’, WSJ, August 4, 2016
• Accounting Choices Blur Profit Picture, WSJ, June 28, 2016
• DATA AND TECHNOLOGY: Transforming the Financial Information Landscape, CFA Institute, June 2016
• Experts advise companies to brace for goodwill impairment scrutiny, Compliance Week, March 16, 2016
• Valeant Uses Rare Accounting Maneuver for Acquisitions That Cushions Income, MarketWatch, February 11, 2016
• Value of XBRL for Financial Analysis, Accounting Today, January 12, 2016
• The Devastating Impact of Falling Oil Prices, in One Chart, Fortune, December 15, 2015
• The SEC Doubles Down on Expanding XBRL Use, FEI Daily, October 26, 2015
• Why AT&T Chief Randall Stephenson Needs a Slam Dunk, WSJ, July 23, 2015
• Dollar Bull or Bear? Two New U.S. Equity Indexes Position Accordingly,ETF Trends, July 22, 2015
• Center Formed to Address XBRL Data Quality Concerns, XBRL-US, June 24, 2015
• XBRL Will Change Your Research Analyst Life, CFA Institute - Enterprising Investor, June 24, 2015
• Errors Persist Into 2014 Year-End XBRL Filings, Compliance Week, May 27, 2015
• 3 Biggest XBRL Mistakes of the First Quarter, FEI Daily, May 27, 2015
• Calcbench Q4 2014 Economic Update, FEI Daily, April 22, 2015
• Big Firms Finally Start to Ramp Up Spending, Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2015
• How Google, GE and U.S. Firms Play the Tax ‘Audit Lottery’, Wall Street Journal, December 18, 2014
• Calcbench Q3 2014 Economic Update, FEI Daily, December 4, 2014
• Getting a Macro View of the U.S. Economy Through the Micro Lens of XBRL Filings, FEI Daily, September 3, 2014
• Easy Peer Benchmarking with XBRL, Merrill Dimensions, August 6, 2014
• Study Quantifies Simple Errors in XBRL Filings, Compliance Week, June 18, 2014
• Measuring Accounting Disclosure Complexity with XBRL, SSRN, May 16, 2014
• Who’s Min(d)ing Your XBRL Data?, NJ Society of CPAs, May 15, 2014
• Why the XBRL Filing Exemption is the Wrong Way to Go, FEI Daily, April 2, 2014
• Government open data proves a treasure trove for savvy businesses, Computerworld, March 24, 2014
• Opposition Mounts for House XBRL Exemption Legislation, Accounting Web, March 17, 2014
• Peer Benchmarking Made Easy with XBRL, Strategic Finance, February 21, 2014
• Data Mining with XBRL, Financial Executives Research Foundation, December 17, 2013
• See Us in New Book by Joel Gurin Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation, December 10, 2013
• Ariel Markelevich Interview: How XBRL Can Make an Auditor’s Life Easier
• The Use of XBRL Data in Auditing, XBRL Best Practices Board Webinar Series, July 30, 2013
• Calcbench Featured At First Conference Devoted to Federal Data Reform, Data Transparency Coalition, July 23, 2013
• Who are the open data entrepreneurs?, Dispatches On Open Government and Technology by Alex Howard, May 30, 2013
• Innovators Using Federal Data to Help Consumers Make Informed Decisions, US Treasury Blog, April 16, 2013
• A tour of five XBRL tools, AICPA Journal of Accountancy, April 8, 2013
• Startup Spotlight: Automating Data Collection from SEC Filings – An Interview with Calcbench, BostInno, March 1, 2013
• CFA Institute Magazine, July-August 2012 (scroll to mid-point of second page)
• MassChallenge Finalists, Boston Business Journal, May 29, 2012
• Online Calculator for SEC Filings: A Killer App for CFOs?, CFO Magazine, February 29, 2012
• Make Money Like a Pro: 3 Top Investment Tools, in The Fiscal Times, February 15, 2012
• Microsoft BizSpark Startup of the Day, January 26, 2012
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