by Ben Russell | Oct 20, 2022 | Digital Future Reporting, ESEF, Inline XBRL, Taxonomy
EU Taxonomy reporting To drive forward sustainability goals and define what is meant by sustainable activities, the EU taxonomy has been created. It lists company activities which: Contribute substantially to one or more of the EU’s environmental objectives Do no...
by Jonathan Rabbitt | May 10, 2022 | Digital Future Reporting, ESEF, Extensibility, Inline XBRL, Interactive Data, Seahorse, Solutions, True North, XBRL
The original version of the Inline XBRL specification was released over ten years ago with a wide range of features to enable filers to embed XBRL tags within an HTML file, creating a document which is both human readable and computer readable. In my role as editor of...
by Tim Moore | Nov 18, 2021 | Digital Future Reporting
Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues are of increasing interest to regulators. With the COP26 climate change conference being held in Glasgow, the Financial Conduct Authority chose sustainability as the theme for their 2021 TechSprint. As a software...
by Ben Russell | Oct 7, 2021 | Digital Future Reporting, Quality, Solutions, Taxonomy
It is becoming common for data collection programmes to release versions of taxonomies with an expectation that external stakeholders will provide feedback on issues based on their own testing. Subsequent work and new releases allow the data collector to reach the...
by Ben Russell | Jul 7, 2021 | Digital Future Reporting, Extensibility, Taxonomy, XBRL
In this post we consider how relationships between the growing number of digital reporting standards can be engineered to increase the efficiency of the data across reporting ecosystems. Digital standards Reporting standards usually contain a narrative supported by...
by Mark Goodhand | Mar 19, 2019 | Digital Future Reporting, XBRL Tech
XBRL – the good parts There’s a lot to like about XBRL. After centuries of paper, and decades of opaque and proprietary digital formats, XBRL was the breakthrough technology that allowed business reports to be exchanged quickly, widely and reliably. XBRL...