XBRL25 held in Yokohama, Japan covered all of the latest developments and trends in using XBRL. Highlights of the conference were to improve the efficiency and quality of business reporting. Here’s what we had to offer.

1. XBRL Riding the next wave
From Financial Reporting to Business Decision Making
Gautam Mahanti
IRIS Business Services Limited
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Yokohama

2. XBRL Evolution: Past Present and Future
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Yokohama

3. But now its time to bite the bullet…
• XBRL is regulatory reporting
– If tomorrow the regulator stops demanding reports in XBRL format,
how many Enterprises would continue to adopt the standard?
• XBRL is too complex and technical
– How many Business users actually understand XBRL
• XBRL is actually an overhead to my existing data
– How many Business users actually feel that XBRL is adding value to
their business operations
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Yokohama

4. Organizations are Operating with Blind Spots!!
52% of users
don’t have confidence in their information
59% of managers
miss information they should have used
42% of managers
use wrong information at least once in a week
Sources: Accenture 2009 Managers Survey and AIIM 2010 Survey
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Yokohama

5. So is there is a business case when…
• XBRL goes beyond financial reporting
– Data is made available to business users on demand for business
decision making
• The myth around ‘XBRL’ being complex is dropped
– XBRL is just another way of structuring my data and there is nothing
technical about it
• XBRL ensures a greater trust in the data
– XBRL makes the data clean, consistent and contextual
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Yokohama

6. Making this work…
Analysis
REAL TIME
XBRL’ise
Financial Reports
GL Business Intelligence
AUTOMATED and Analytics
Dashboards
External files
Layer External
SCHEDULED
Internal
SOURCE DATA NORMALISED DATA CONSUMPTION
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Yokohama

7. How does GL help…
XBRL GL, the Global Ledger Framework can represent all ERP
detailed data; it’s much more than General ledger
• Ability to track data at a granular level
– Receivables
• By Party
• By Location
• By Value
• By Maturity Date
• Normalize data from multiple sources to a standard Chart of
Accounts
• Build traceability until the source
• Making data available for any BI tool to consume
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Yokohama

8. Accountants Integrated Engine (Beta Release)
End to end Financial Reporting Consolidation Multi GAAP Reporting
• Server based, Enterprise class edition
• Multi source data integration, ERP integration
• Configurable to company’s legal and organizational
structure
• Works with financial and non financial data, leverages
XBRL GL
• Add on modules for Financial consolidation and Multi
GAAP reporting
• BI integration for reporting and analytics
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Yokohama

9. iAXE : An overview…
Global ledger taxonomy Country specific FR taxonomies
Cost
Accountant
XBRL GL
Trial Data XBRL FR XBRL FR
ERP Extraction XBRL
Balance Mapping Reporting Instance
Engine Mapper Generator instance
Balance
sheet,P&L
Consolidation Engine XBRL FR
XBRL FR
Country specific Instance XBRL
Reporting
Generator instance
Mapper
Trail
Extensions Templates, Annotations formulas, comments
Balance
enabler
editor
IFRS Transforming Engine
Consolidation XBRL FR XBRL FR XBRL
Engine(IFRS) Reporting Instance instance
Mapper Generator
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10. Configure: Mimic the organization's legal structure
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11. Workflow: Role wise authorization
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12. Connect: Source data upload
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13. Normalize: Map user elements to std GL
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14. Connecting GLs and Extend GL
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15. Connecting GL to FR
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16. Decision Making: Reports and Dashboards
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Yokohama