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This is a blog for information relating to digital financial reporting. This blog is basically my "lab notebook" for experimenting and learning about XBRL-based digital financial reporting. This is my brain storming platform. This is where I think out loud (i.e. publicly) about digital financial reporting. This information is for innovators and early adopters who are ushering in a new era of accounting, reporting, auditing, and analysis in a digital environment.

Much of the information contained in this blog is synthasized, summarized, condensed, better organized and articulated in my book XBRL for Dummies and in the chapters of Intelligent XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Entries from November 22, 2020 - November 28, 2020

Pacioli Import

Pacioli has a lot of new functionality. One of the new features is the ability to import CSV. You can try this out yourself by doing the following:

Download this ZIP archive that contains 9 CSV files and put it somewhere on your local computer. (This has the PROOF representation.)
Go to this URL which allows you to Import into Pacioli.
Either copy and then paste or drag and then drop the files from your local computer into the import page above. (you can either upload the one ZIP file or each file individually, does not matter)
Press the "Import" button on the web page.
You will get (a) a validation report that shows everything is logically valid which you can download and (b) an XBRL instance, XBRL taxonomy schema, XBRL linkbases, and XBRL formulas that was generated from the CVS. (The XBRL syntax is not dialed in yet, but it will get there very soon.)
Try these two other simpler examples to understand the import format: Accounting Equation | SFAC 6 Elements of Financial Statement
Modify the Proof, Accounting Equation, or SFAC 6 examples and try importing that.

You can create literally any XBRL-based financial report using CSV formatted similarly. We will document this to make it more understandable. Clearly you would not want to hand create CSV files, that is not the point. Luca also supports that same format using in the CSV.

Back to connecting the dots!

Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 08:00AM by

Charlie in Digital Financial Reporting |