This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. A common error in XBRL reports is tagging facts with the wrong date. This arises because of the different conventions that are typically used to […]
This is a guest post by Jacques Urlus, policy advisor IT & Audit at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants (NBA) and Vice Chair of our Dutch jurisdiction, XBRL NL. Based on his presentation at Data Amplified Virtual on 16 April 2021, he discusses his unique and groundbreaking work with the NBA on audit of […]
At Data Amplified Virtual, in April, we had the distinct pleasure of hearing from Jacques Urlus – policy advisor IT & Audit at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants (NBA) – on the Netherlands’ experience of developing an audit approach for ESEF filings. As the ESEF mandate comes into effect in countries throughout Europe, […]
This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. An ESEF report is made up of multiple files which must be submitted in a specially formatted ZIP file, known as […]
This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. An XBRL taxonomy can define a calculation tree for describing and validating simple totals and subtotals in an XBRL Report. For […]
This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. Often the same fact is reported multiple times in different sections of a report. Tagging all the occurrences of a fact […]
This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. Tagging values with the wrong sign – negative rather than positive, or vice versa – is a common and potentially serious […]
Issuers across EU-regulated markets and in the UK have filed their first financial statements in European Single Electronic Format (ESEF), which in essence is an Inline XBRL report. We anticipate that ESEF will make European reporting data more consistent, comparable, and ultimately useful. It was encouraging to see many issuers voluntarily submitting ESEF filings in […]
This is a guest post by Stanislav Korop, Deputy Director Data Governance Department, Bank of Russia. Since 2018, the Russian jurisdiction of XBRL International has been working to support and develop the use of XBRL in the Russian Federation. Over three years of activity, the Russian jurisdiction has become a key independent discussion platform for […]
This is a guest post by Antoine Bourdais and Clément Duhamel of Invoke. It is based on their fantastic live demonstration at Data Amplified Virtual on 16 April 2021, showing how we can use current technology, facilitated by recent regulatory advances, to collect and analyse public Pillar III information disclosed by the European financial industry, […]
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