Cloud-based Luca
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 03:05PM
Charlie in Digital Financial Reporting

In a prior blog post I mentioned the Luca application for creating XBRL-based financial reports that a software engineer and I created.

Another software engineer, Yury Volkovich, undertook to duplicate and enhance the functionality of the original desktop version of Luca. 

Auditchain also built a cloud-based version of what Luca provided, you can use that application here:

These Excel files it a ZIP archive can be used to create reports.

The following tutorials can help you understand how to use this cloud-based version of Luca. The tutorias were created using the YAXBRL version; but the Auditchain version works the same. Documentation is the tutorial documentation and the Excel Import Files is the ZIP archive of the files you will be using to import information into the report model and report: (where there is no link yet, the information is forth coming.

  1. Start Here: This is a 11 minute video walk through of using the Luca application (highly recommended)
  2. Using import: This is a 7 minute video walk through of using the Luca IMPORT functionality (highly recommended; note that you can grap the Excel import files below)
  3. Accounting equation Tutorial: Documentation
  4. Hello World! Tutorial: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  5. Hello World! with Dimensions: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  6. Hello World! with Dimensions, no dimension-default: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  7. Hello World! PPE components represented using dimensions: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  8. SFAC 6 Tutorial: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  9. Common Elements of Finacial Statement Tutorial: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  10. MINI Financial Reporting Scheme Tutorial: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  11. PROOF Tutorial: Documentation | Excel Import Files (does not currently import certain types of rules and dimensions of facts...coming soon)
  12. METHOD Tutorial: Documentation | XBRL-based Report (Coming Soon)
  13. FAC example: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  14. NFT example: Documentation | Excel Import Files
  15. Microsoft test: Documentation | Excel Import File (This is a work in progress, not done yet)

After the above exercises are done, it would be worth while to do these exercises also. These additional examples add import and verification of the reports.  Then, these examples should be looked at to help consolidate your understanding.

To take your skills to the next level:

This version of Luca is an excellent tool to learn about XBRL-based financial reporting.  Stay tuned and watch for updates on this web page. The ultimate objective is to create an Expert System for Creating Financial Reports.

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