Proof Baseline
Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 07:17AM
Charlie in Digital Financial Reporting

This PROOF BASELINE is an excellent learning tool.  For even more information please see this blog post.  The PROOF BASELINE is about getting the logic right.  Once you have the logic right, all you need is control.  Control is achieved through the use of rules. (This is the most current iteration of the proof baseline.)

This best practice method can be used to verify that a financial report is a properly functioning system. There is still manual work necessary.

If you learn to create that PROOF BASELINE, you can very likely create any XBRL-based financial report.  To understand that representation, please read Intermediate XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting. (Specifically, the documentation.) I will resync the documentation to the newest version of that PROOF BASELINE eventually.

You should consider trying to create what you can using Luca or my free open source tool.

The most challenging approach is to use the Inline XBRL or the PDF as your starting point to create the report. Alternatively, start by creating the model and the rules; then create the XBRL instance.

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