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Understanding and Leveraging Fact Sets

Every XBRL-based public company financial report is essentially a set of fact sets. In the 6,023 XBRL-based reports that I analyzed (all 10-Ks submitted to the SEC using US GAAP):

  • There are 754,430 fact sets
    • 407,392 fact sets (54%) are text blocks (Level 1 Notes, Level 2 Policies, Level 3 Disclosures)
    • 181,063 fact sets (24%) are sets (or hierarchies, no mathematical computations)
    • 120,708 fact sets (16%) are roll ups
    • 37,721 fact sets (5%) are roll forwards
    • 7,546 fact sets (1%) are roll forward infos or something else

What I used to call "blocks" I am not calling "fact sets".  Fact set is a better term that someone else came up with.  The document Understanding and Leveraging Fact Sets explains what a fact set (block) is and some of the things you can do with them.

Happy reading!

Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 03:43PM by Registered CommenterCharlie | CommentsPost a Comment

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