ESEF Errors and Common Pitfalls: 6 – Redundant Labels

By Revathy Ramanan on June 22, 2021

This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. ESMA’s ESEF taxonomy contains taxonomy element labels in all official EU languages. ESEF reports are expected to use these ESMA taxonomy labels for base taxonomy […]

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ESEF Errors and Common Pitfalls: 5 – Incorrect Dates

By Revathy Ramanan on June 16, 2021

This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. A common error in XBRL reports is tagging facts with the wrong date. This arises because of the different conventions that are typically used to […]

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ESEF Errors and Common Pitfalls: 4 – Report Package Errors

By Revathy Ramanan on June 8, 2021

This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. An ESEF report is made up of multiple files which must be submitted in a specially formatted ZIP file, known as […]

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ESEF Errors and Common Pitfalls: 3 – Calculation Inconsistency

By Revathy Ramanan on June 8, 2021

This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. An XBRL taxonomy can define a calculation tree for describing and validating simple totals and subtotals in an XBRL Report. For […]

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ESEF Errors and Common Pitfalls: 2 – Inconsistent Duplicates

By Revathy Ramanan on June 3, 2021

This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. Often the same fact is reported multiple times in different sections of a report. Tagging all the occurrences of a fact […]

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ESEF Errors and Common Pitfalls: 1 – Incorrect Signs

By Revathy Ramanan on May 27, 2021

This is part of a series on common errors and pitfalls in ESEF filings, observed in our analysis of hundreds of reports collected in our repository, at filings.xbrl.org. For the series introduction, start here. Tagging values with the wrong sign – negative rather than positive, or vice versa – is a common and potentially serious […]

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ESEF Errors and Common Pitfalls: Series Introduction

By Revathy Ramanan on May 27, 2021

Issuers across EU-regulated markets and in the UK have filed their first financial statements in European Single Electronic Format (ESEF), which in essence is an Inline XBRL report. We anticipate that ESEF will make European reporting data more consistent, comparable, and ultimately useful. It was encouraging to see many issuers voluntarily submitting ESEF filings in […]

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xBRL-JSON Makes Report Consumption Easier!

By Revathy Ramanan on April 22, 2021

Revathy manages the development of guidance materials at XBRL International. In this article she shares the xBRL-JSON driven analytics that she demonstrated at last week’s Data Amplified conference, with links to explore. The new Open Information Model (OIM) specifications will soon reach ‘Recommendation’ status. There is no time like the present, therefore, to learn how […]

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Working with xBRL-JSON. An experiment!

By Revathy Ramanan on February 27, 2020

XBRL’s new Open Information Model is a strategic initiative to simplify and modernise our standard. The OIM enables the free exchange of XBRL data across a range of different syntaxes. We are used to thinking of XBRL as an XML variant, but the OIM allows us to instead understand XBRL as a syntax-independent standard that […]

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iXBRL Tagging Features

By Revathy Ramanan on October 3, 2019

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