Every listed company in the EU now files its annual report with eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) tags embedded in the document. The European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) mandate put those tags there, and the audit report changed with them. Auditors...
How to Choose XBRL Reporting Software: A Buyer’s Guide
Your annual report went to the auditor on Friday and came back on Monday with forty issues requiring correction before it could be accepted. Some are invalid tagging decisions, some are extension concepts that were never anchored, and some are filing requirements that...
XBRL vs iXBRL: What’s the Difference and Which Format Do You Need?
XBRL and inline XBRL (iXBRL) are two widely adopted global standards for financial reporting of business data. Both turn financial data into a form computers can read, and both share the same technical base, but they do different jobs and answer to different...
KvK iXBRL financial statements: Deadlines for large companies
Large companies in the Netherlands are, for the first time, required to submit their financial statements to the Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel, KvK) as digital reports. This brings KvK reporting further in line with the Dutch Standard Business...
EU Public Country-by-Country Reporting (pCbCR)
The EU’s Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) has today (22/12/2025) published their XBRL taxonomy for public Country by Country Reporting. Background Of course, Country-by Country Reporting (CbCR) is...
AI: friend or foe to XBRL?
Introduction Following the rise in popularity of LLMs and generative AI, it didn't take long for people to start asking what this means for XBRL. Would there be exciting new opportunities making better use of AI with XBRL? Would AI reduce the cost of XBRL adoption?...




