UK Open Data gains momentum
In a significant move that will take UK open data to another level, Companies House, the UK Business Register, is planning to make available its entire digital data, free of charge, starting second quarter 2015. Once this service goes live, it will give the public...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.