Financial reporting has sign conventions, XBRL has a rule
In my previous post, I looked at how a lack of clear best practice around the naming of concepts and elements has contributed to the confusion around sign conventions in XBRL. I believe that another contributing factor is that the sign conventions used in financial...Getting the sign right: Names, labels, and extensions
In my previous article, I demonstrated a simple technique for getting the correct sign when tagging a number in XBRL. You may have noticed that I was somewhat casual with the notion of concepts having a “name”. If you’re familiar with the details of XBRL, you’ll...Reviewing financials with Magnify and Sphinx
Charlie Hoffman has added an interesting post to his blog about using Magnify to verify the integrity of a financial report. Our Magnify XBRL review tool comes built in with a range of generally applicable XBRL quality checks, as well as some jurisdiction-specific...Conquering XBRL syntax with TNT
If you’ve struggled with XBRL syntax we have a few tips and tricks, as well as our new product: True North Transformer, up our sleeves.