Luca is very basic working proof of concept software application that can be used to create an XBRL-based financial report. We are not sure how far we will take this. It is being used to help a software engineer understand some important details.
Requirements
To run Luca, you need the following:
After you have installed the above, you should download and install the most current version of Luca.
Download Luca
You can download incremental builds of Luca here: (be sure to uninstall prior versions of Luca before installing a newer version)
Tutorials to help you understand Luca and Standard Business Report Model (SBRM)
The following tutorials will help you understand how to use Luca and the nature of the Standard Business Report (SBRM) model. With the SBRM model, you work with the logic of a business report, not the XBRL technical syntax. XBRL is generated from the SBRM model. Luca is not intended to be the GUI for interacting with business reports or financial reports; it is intended only to help you understand the SBRM logical conceptulization of a business report. These basic tutorials will help you understand that model step-by-step:
The following is free and sometimes open source software that you can use to validate and view the XBRL-based reports that you created using Luca:
This is a prototype cloud-based version of Luca. (work in progress)