XBRL Ireland Open day , Dublin 22 Nov 2010

1. The iXBRL Portfolio
Accounts Production

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Sage’s XBRL / iXBRL Roadmap
Topic
The Sage Approach to XBRL
Overview of development methodology and progress
Demonstration of Page Production and export to XBRL
Q & A

3. Sage’s Approach to iXBRL
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• To reduce the level of effort required by accountants down to
the click of a few buttons
• Sage’s iXBRL solution will come as a module to the existing
Sage Accounts Production offering
• The iXBRL solution will incorporate a significant
reengineering of Sage Accounts Production which will see
the generation of financial statement move from the current
“Pages” section to a new module - Interactive Financial
Statement (IFS)
• The IFS interface is designed to be user friendly and is
presented in a word/excel like interface

4. Exactly what will I be required to do?
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1. Download the IFS/iXBRL module from the Sage website or run
from a CD
2. Run the mapping wizard:
- The mapping wizard will map the existing chart of accounts to
IFS
- Where the chart of accounts has been altered, the mapping
wizard will allow the user to manually map any remaining nominals
3. Prepare the financial statements from the client’s trial balance as
normal in Sage Accounts Production
4. To view the financial statement - instead of clicking pages, simply
click IFS
5. The financial statements are generated, with the iXBRL tagging in
the background
6. Show iXBRL facility
7. Click submit button

5. IFS and iXBRL
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• Fully configurable and customisable financial
statements allow the user to make changes without the
need to export to any other application
• HMRC may eventually require financial statements to
be fully tagged as opposed to partially tagged – the 1st
April 2011 deadline.
• IFS natively supports iXBRL and XBRL from the ground
up and will allow fully tagged accounts to be produced
from initial release
• Our goal at Sage is to limit the impact on how you
create a set of financial statements.

6. Sage Accounts Production
IFS Editor
Final
Accounts
Produced
AP
Products
IFS Viewer
iXBRL File
Generation
User Experience
Our Approach
Maintains
current
investment
and
understanding

7. Sage Accounts Production
Benefits of the IFS
• Error Report
– Errors Warnings and Advice
• Report Pads
– User Defined Items
• Drill Down
– Greater functionality on the face
• Styles
– Greater influence over style

8. Component Parts
The Interactive Financial Statements – Component parts
– The Mapping Wizard
– The Styles Editor
– The Compliance Editor
– The Viewer
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9. The Styles Editor
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The Mapping Wizard

11. Sage Accounts Production
The Editor
• This provides the power behind the IFS
• Ability to specify your output
• Without knowledge of formatting
• Build your own pro-formas
• Specify exactly the tabular output you wish

12. The Editor

13. Sage Accounts Production
Viewer
• For 99% of users this will be all that they use
• V1 will still retain current product
• Reads off a templates
• Very user friendly
• Set options / discl / details etc... Within the new IFS module
• Drill down
• Journals posting for V1
• Produce Accounts and iXBRL files

14. Contact
heather.hamilton@sage.com
peter.hutt@sage.com
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