Every year, FASB releases a new version of the US GAAP XBRL taxonomy. Depending on the individual filer, adopting this new taxonomy can be easy or potentially require a fair amount of work. While FASB does have release notes for the taxonomy, there is little guidance on how to adopt the new changes. In this blog, we will be going over what can change in a taxonomy update, how to identify those changes, and how to determine what, if anything, needs to be done to your filing to incorporate the changes.

Many EDGAR filing forms have fees associated with them. Determining the fee associated with a filing is extremely important and can be straightforward. However, there are times when the calculation can also become more complicated. Fee offsets can be a source of confusion for many filers and our support team often gets asked questions about how to prepare an EDGAR filing when fee offsets are involved.

The SEC voted on March 1, 2017 to adopt rule and form amendments to make it easier for investors and other market participants to locate and access exhibits in registration statements and periodic reports that were originally submitted with prior filings. This ruling requires issuers to include a hyperlink to each exhibit in the filing’s exhibit index.

With the changing pace of technology, companies like Microsoft need to be vigilant about security issues. Every office has experienced it – that one user that gets a virus and the whole office becomes infected in a matter of minutes. To combat this problem Microsoft has started to force computers to update automatically. Gone are the days of Windows XP where users could continue to hit “Postpone” for weeks on end. Now we have the new Windows Update that installs and restarts your computer for you. Instead of coming into work to a virus attack, users are now unfortunately coming into work to find their documents and applications closed and their computers restarted.

The next N-MFP filing due for money market funds must be submitted to the EDGAR System on the new form, Form N-MFP2. This new version of the form became effective on October 14, 2016.

Each October, the SEC sets the filing fee rate for the fiscal year, which is the rate the SEC believes will result in collections that equal annual statutory target amounts for the SEC. For the SEC’s 2017 fiscal year, this statutory target amount is $585 million, which resulted in a fee rate of $115.90 per million dollars. Throughout the year, the SEC may make adjustments to the fee rates in order to reach their target amount. The new fee rate became effective October 1, 2016 and should be used to calculate fees for filings until September 30, 2017 or the SEC adjusts the rate.

Update: The November 2 XBRL US SEC Filer Workshop has been cancelled.

XBRL US is hosting a one-day workshop for SEC filers on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at the AICPA offices in New York City. Topics covered by the workshop will include the changes to financial reporting that regulators are proposing, including the permitted use of Inline XBRL and revisions to disclosure requirements.

If you are reporting transactions on EDGAR Form 4 or 5, then you may have questions about the Transaction Code field. This field is required data in both Table I and Table II of these forms.

In XBRL as in other data reporting systems, calculations show relationships among data. Since XBRL defines calculations in this way without validating the accuracy of their results, it is important to examine the results of calculations in XBRL filings. Many preparers may assume that when a calculation does not add up, it is due to rounding, but this may not be a safe assumption.

GoFiler supports a lot of user customization to allow it to meet your exact needs. One of the primary means of customizing the software is through the use of templates. The various templates used by the application can be altered to override or to add to existing functionality. Templates can also provide you with the exact look and feel you want when creating new documents, setting up projects, and publishing reviewer’s proofs.

It’s a question to which even filing experts may not know the answer. It doesn’t happen often, but the dreaded Internet error can cause major problems when you are in the middle of a Live filing. What do you do? How can you know if the SEC received the filing? This blog post will help you figure out the best course of action.

As the deadline for the first Form N-MFP1 filing draws closer, it’s important to know what your options are for working with this new type of filing. As with Form N-MFP, the SEC is not providing any editing software so filers are essentially on their own to find a solution for creating and editing this form.

SEC staff recently released observations regarding registrants’ use of custom axis elements (or custom dimensions) in XBRL reports. The results of their analysis showed that while the overall use of custom axis elements has been declining since 2013, over half of all filers continue to use one or more custom axis elements in their annual reports.

When the SEC moved their XBRL Viewer software to Python, the underlying architecture of the application changed significantly and now requires a bit more set up to get the software up and running. If you use GoFiler Complete or GoXBRL, our development team has integrated a script into our software to automatically install the XBRL Viewer for you. If you want to know how to install the XBRL Viewer on your own, read on.