Explore the technical depth and practical applications of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) through expert analysis and innovative solutions.
Our XBRL content spans specification development, instance document integrity, inline XBRL capabilities, fraud detection applications, and the evolution of digital reporting standards. Discover how XBRL transforms business data into machine-readable, standardized formats for global regulatory compliance.
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...
New taxonomies are published by regulators for a variety of reasons, to fix issues, introduce new report types or to apply year-on-year changes. CoreFiling customers are used to being given access to new versions of reports well before they are required, but how do we...
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...
The invention of schemas to provide formal definition of the contents of XML documents was one of the most important innovations accompanying the creation of the World Wide Web. For the first time, it was possible to develop a generic data validator which was...
What is instance document integrity? Any discussion about the capabilities of XBRL taxonomies would be incomplete without considering mechanisms that help to ensure the integrity of instance documents prepared in accordance with them. But what do we mean by...
As part of our drive to showcase how innovative apps can be built on the True North® Data Platform, we’ve released a new at-a-glance fraud indicator tool. And it’s free on our website! The design team behind this app were inspired by the principles of Benford’s law....
In this series of articles, we propose a categorisation of taxonomies based on different aspects of their design. Using this categorisation we look at the evolution of taxonomy design through three generations. What is taxonomy coherence? Our dictionary provides two...
CoreFiling’s Katherine Haigh and Joe Leeman are active contributors to XII’s Filing Rules Working Group. In this interview, we find out what motivated them and what insights they’ve gained that are useful either to regulators, filers or both. Why did you join the...
Last week, CoreFiling’s Ian Hicks took part in the FRC’s Digital Future: Data round table, and discussed ways to combat the current “under-performance” of financial data. After the event, we sat down with Ian to talk about the benefits and challenges of using XBRL for...
This week, CoreFiling’s Ian Hicks joined over 20 other industry representatives in London for the Digital Future: Data round table, hosted by the FRC’s Financial Reporting Lab. Discussions focused on how XBRL can help facilitate Digital Future Reporting: a 12-step...