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Deloitte Huset - 21 May 2019
Is your annual report and numbers ready to go digital?
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Welcome – Deloitte and Parseport 09:00 – 09:05
Introduction to the new European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) – Deloitte 09:05 – 09:30
ESEF seen from the Danish FSA – The Danish FSA 09:30 – 10:00
What will the future bring at the Danish Business Authority – The Danish Business Authority 10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break 10:30 – 10:45
Flügger – iXBRL learnings going from Analog to Digital – Flügger 10:45 – 11:15
Showcasing iXBRL Converter – Parseport and Kontrapunkt 11:15 – 11:45
ESEF and the auditor’s role – Deloitte 11:45 – 12:00
Closing comments & Sandwich 12:00 – 12:30
Agenda
Om DeloitteDeloitte leverer ydelser indenfor revision, consulting, financial advisory, risikostyring, skat og dertil knyttede ydelser til både offentlige og private kunder i en lang række brancher. Deloitte betjener fire ud af fem virksomheder på listen over verdens største selskaber, Fortune Global 500®, gennem et globalt forbundet netværk af medlemsfirmaer i over 150 lande, der leverer kompetencer og viden i verdensklasse og service af høj kvalitet til at håndtere kundernes mest komplekse forretningsmæssige udfordringer. Vil du vide mere om, hvordan Deloittes omkring 286.000 medarbejdere gør en forskel, der betyder noget, så besøg os på Facebook, LinkedIn eller Twitter.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LimitedDeloitte er en betegnelse for en eller flere af Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (”DTTL”), dets netværk af medlemsfirmaer og deres tilknyttede virksomheder. DTTL (der også omtales som ”Deloitte Global”) og alle dets medlemsfirmaer udgør separate og uafhængige juridiske enheder. DTTL leverer ikke ydelser til kunderne. Vi henviser til www.deloitte.com/about for nærmere oplysninger.
© 2019 Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab. Medlem af Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
The European Single Electronic Format (ESEF)
An introduction to the new reporting format
21.05.2019
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. The ESEF in brief
3. The tagging requirements in the ESEF
4. The production process of an iXBRL report
5. The ESEF taxonomy
6. How to get prepared for ESEF
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Introduction
Henrik Grønnegaard
Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab
State Authorised Public Accountant
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tlf. 2323 2025
• Director in Deloittes National Office for Audit and Accountancy• Member of Deloitte DK IFRS Centre of Excellence• Member of the Accounting Committee in FSR – Danske Revisorer• Board member of XBRL Denmark• Responsible for the XBRL-solutions in Deloitte Denmark
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“The objectives of the provision are to make reporting easier for issuers and to facilitate accessibility, analysis and comparability of annual financial reports.”ESMA – European Securities and Markets Authority
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The ESEF in brief
Overview of the development process
Revised EU Transparency Diretive:
Article 4(7): “ESMA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards to specify the electronic reporting format”
Source:ESMA 2019
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The current Danish IFRS XBRL requirements with separate PDF- and XBRL-documents does not comply with the ESEF requirements.
ESEF requires one single electronic format – iXBRL
The Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on ESEF will apply to all issuers subject to the requirements contained in the Transparency Directive to make public Annual Financial Reports (AFRs).
The ESEF requires that:
• All AFRs shall be prepared in XHTML, which is human readable and can be opened with any standard web browsers
• Where AFRs contains IFRS consolidated financial statements, these shall be labelled with XBRL “tags”, which make the labelled disclosures structured and machine readable
• The XBRL “tags” shall be embedded in the xHTML document using the Inline XBRL technology, which allows the benefits of XBRL tagged data to be combined with the human readable presentation of AFRs in one single file
• A taxonomy provides the hierarchical structure used to classify financial information and is essential for structured electronic reporting using XBRL. The taxonomy used for ESEF is an extension of the IFRS taxonomy issued by IASC Foundation
• Preparers shall mark-up disclosures using the taxonomy element having the closest accounting meaning to the marked up disclosure; if the closest taxonomy element misrepresents the accounting meaning of the disclosure, issuers shall create an extension taxonomy element and anchor such extension to the core taxonomy element that has the closest accounting meaning
• Primary financial statements (statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income, statement of financial position, statement of changes in equity and statement of cash flows) shall be marked up in detail; notes will need to be marked up by applying mark-ups for whole sections of the notes (block tagging)
The ESEF in brief
What are the requirements
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The ESEF in brief
What does an xHTML file look like?
… just like a standard web page!
Source: ESMA 2019
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The ESEF in brief
What do embedded XBRL tags look like?
… a standard web page with additional layer of information that can be displayed when clicking on a certain tagged element
Source: ESMA 2019
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The tagging requirements in the ESEF
IFRS Consolidated Financial Statements
Individual Financial Statements
3rd country GAAP Financial Statements
Primary financial statement (Profit/Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flows and Equity Statement) and certain basic information
Mandatory from 2020 Voluntary – if taxonomy provided by Member
States
Not possible
Block tagging of notes and further supplementary information
Mandatory from 2022
Detailed tagging of notes Voluntary
Overview and timeline
The ESEF taxonomy reflects the endorsement status of the IFRSs in the EU. If not endorsed, then not contained in the IFRS Taxonomy.
Source: ESMA–ESEF Reporting Manual – 18. December 2017
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The ESEF XBRL taxonomy
Elements in the ESEF taxonomy
IFRS Standards
Common reporting practice
Limited number of technical
additions
ESEF Taxonomy
Core taxonomy schema
(Annex VI of the RTS)
XBRL taxonomy files
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Tagging to the ESEF XBRL Taxonomy
Illustrative example
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?
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Tagging requirements by the ESEF RTS
Use specific current elements if possible!
“Preparers shall mark-up disclosures using the taxonomy element having the closest accounting meaning to the marked up disclosure; if the closest taxonomy element misrepresents the accounting meaning of the disclosure, issuers shall create an extension taxonomy element and anchor such extension to the core taxonomy element that has the closest accounting meaning.”
Example:
A preparer has to consider the accounting meaning of a taxonomy element when making this judgement. For example, a disclosure described by an entity as “Issue of share capital” and presented in the cash flow statement as a cash inflow could be marked up using the taxonomy line item with the standard label “Proceeds from issuing shares”.
Source: ESMA–ESEF Reporting Manual – 18. December 2017
“Proceeds from issuing shares”
Example – Use wider tag:
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Tagging requirements by the ESEF RTS
Use wider tags if possible!
“It is possible and recommended to use an element in the ESEF taxonomy that is wider in scope or meaning than the marked up information, if the marked up report does not contain another disclosure that fully or partially corresponds to the respective taxonomy element.”
Example:
An issuer which discloses in its statement of cash flows an item that represents cash outflows relating to the “purchase of property, plant and equipment and intangibles other than goodwill” can use the taxonomy element “purchase of property, plant and equipment, intangible assets other than goodwill, investment property and other non-current assets” to mark up the disclosure, even though the cash outflows do not relate to investment property or other non-current IF the issuer does not disclose in a separate item cash outflows relating to purchase of investment property or other non-current assets.
Source: ESMA–ESEF Reporting Manual – 18. December 2017
“Purchase of property, plant and
equipment, intangible assets other
than goodwill, investment property
and other-non-current assets”
Example – Use wider tag:
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Tagging requirements by the ESEF RTS
Use extensions if necessary, but anchor them to current elements!
“Extension taxonomy elements always have to be anchored to elements of the ESEF taxonomy, except for elements corresponding to subtotals.”
Example:
An issuer issued equity and it received one part of the capital increase in kind and another part of the capital increase in cash. It disclosed in its statement of changes of equity the two components separately. The ESEF taxonomy includes an element “issue of equity” but it does not include separate elements for capital increases in kind and capital increases in cash.
Therefore, the issuer creates capital extension taxonomy elements “capital increases in kind” and “capital increases in cash”. Capital increases in kind and in cash are narrower in scope that the element “issue of equity” and represent disaggregations of it. Therefore, the two extension elements are anchored to the wider base taxonomy element “issue of equity”. It is not necessary to anchor the two extension taxonomy elements to narrower elements in the ESEF taxonomy.
Source: ESMA –ESEF Reporting Manual – 18. December 2017
Capital increase in kind Capital increase in cash
“Issue of equity”
Extensions
Anchoring
Example – Anchoring extensions (broader):
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Tagging requirements by the ESEF RTS
Use extensions if necessary, but anchor them to current elements!
“Where an extension taxonomy element combines a number of elements of the ESEF taxonomy, issuers shall anchor that extension taxonomy element to each of the elements in the ESEF taxonomy it combines, except where these elements are reasonably deemed insignificant.”
Example:
An issuer discloses in its IFRS statement of financial position an item “issued capital and share premium”. The ESEF taxonomy does not include such an item. Therefore, it is necessary to create an extension taxonomy element. However, the taxonomy includes the elements “issued capital” and “share premium”. The extension taxonomy element represents a combination of the two elements that are available in the ESEF taxonomy and therefore, the extension taxonomy element “issued capital and share premium” should be anchored to these two elements, indicating that it is wider in scope than the two elements.
Source: ESMA –ESEF Reporting Manual – 18. December 2017
Share capital and Premium
“Issued
capital” “Share
premium”
Example – Anchoring extensions (narrower):
Extension
Anchoring
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What information should be tagged?
Mandatory and voluntary tagging
Detailed tagging of Primary Financial Statements mandatoryfrom 2020
Block tagging of the Notes mandatory from 2022
Data in text
Images
Data in graphics
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The production process of an iXBRL report
Much can initiated already now!
1• Familiarise yourself with the ESEF requirements
• Familiarise yourself with the ESEF Taxonomy
2• Prepare a correlation table (mapping)
• Assess the need to crease extension
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• Apply base taxonomy tags
• Extend the taxonomy
• Anchor extensions
4• Review and validate the report
• Publish the iXBRL report
Based on ESMA presentation 2019
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How to get prepared for the ESEF
Timing is key – Start early!
LEARNING• Familiarise
yourself with the ESEF requirements and with the ESEF taxonomy
• Educate your teams and management
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STRATEGY • In-house or
externalized production?
• Governance of the ESEF project (validation, key actors, etc.
3MAPPING• Map your
financial statements to the ESEF taxonomy
• Analyse the need for extensions and anchors
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SOFTWARE TOOL• Start assessing the
right solution• “Built in” or “bolt on”
approach• Standalone iXBRL or
disclosure management solutions
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European Single Electronic Format (ESEF)
Where to find more information?
On ESMA’s website
• The ESEF webpage (www.esma.Europe.eu)
• The final report on the draft RTS ond ESEF (ESMA32-60-204)
• The ESEF Reporting Manual (ESMA32-60-2540)
• Video tutorials on ESEF: Video 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOg9ETFpAhg
Video 2: youtu.be/FlmK-_H2x8w
• The Feedback Statement on the Consultation Paper on the RTS on ESEF (ESMA/2016/1668)
On the IFRS Foundation website
• General resources on the IFRS Taxonomy
• Using the IFRS Taxonomy: A Preparer’s Guide
• IFRS Taxonomy illustrative examples
On XBRL Europe’s website
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Thank you!
Om DeloitteDeloitte leverer ydelser indenfor revision, consulting, financial advisory, risikostyring, skat og dertil knyttede ydelser til både offentlige og private kunder i en lang række brancher. Deloitte betjener fire ud af fem virksomheder på listen over verdens største selskaber, Fortune Global 500®, gennem et globalt forbundet netværk af medlemsfirmaer i over 150 lande, der leverer kompetencer og viden i verdensklasse og service af høj kvalitet til at håndtere kundernes mest komplekse forretningsmæssige udfordringer. Vil du vide mere om, hvordan Deloittes omkring 286.000 medarbejdere gør en forskel, der betyder noget, så besøg os på Facebook, LinkedIn eller Twitter.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LimitedDeloitte er en betegnelse for en eller flere af Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (”DTTL”), dets netværk af medlemsfirmaer og deres tilknyttede virksomheder. DTTL (der også omtales som ”Deloitte Global”) og alle dets medlemsfirmaer udgør separate og uafhængige juridiske enheder. DTTL leverer ikke ydelser til kunderne. Vi henviser til www.deloitte.com/about for nærmere oplysninger.
© 2019 Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab. Medlem af Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
ESEF seen from Finanstilsynet
XBRL Event @ Deloitte21 May 2019
Starting out with Gordon Gekko…
Transparency Rules
• Transparency Directive article 4
• Kapitalmarkedsloven §25
• Simultaneous publishing and
filing with the DFSA
European Single Electronic Format
Transparency
Speed
Availability
StructuredAccounting
Data
ESEF
Well functioning European capital markets
Issuers
Finanstilsynet
ESMA
Business register
IFRS Foundation
Investors
Analysts
Auditors
Service & software providers
Efficient markets
ESEF will become a part of OAM
• Officially Appointed Mechanism (OAM)
• Centralized storage of all published regulatory information + more types of public data
OAM
Inside information
Take over bids
Large shareholders’ notifications
Managers’ notifications
Shortsellingnotifications
AnnualFinancial Reports
(ESEF)
Prospectuses
Finanstilsynet’s OAM
• Currently preparing for a new system
Make all ESEF files available simultaneously with publication to the markets
Provide search functions for historical data
No validations
• ESEF formatted AFRs
• XHTML
• InlineXBRL
ISSUERS
• Storage of ESEF files
• No validation
OAM• Access to ESEF files
• Search documents
• Historical data
USERS
Some links
• Finanstilsynets current OAM webportal:
https://oasm.dfsa.dk/
• More information will follow on our website
www.finanstilsynet.dk
• Keep yourself updated on ESMAs workhttps://www.esma.europa.eu/
Ending with the other side of the mug…
Thank you for listening
Chief Advisor Lise Fode
What will the future bring at the DBA?
21. May 2019
Who we are
2Danish Business Authority
We are approx. 500 employees
We have divisions in
• København
• Silkeborg
• Nykøbing Falster
A part of The Ministry of Industrial, Business and Financial Affairs
3Danish Business Authority
The minister
Design Society
Danish Standards
Danpilot
Denmark’s ExportCredit Agency
Finansiel Stabilitet
Garantifonde
Nordsøfonden
Visit Denmark
The Danish Growth Fund
Danish Business Authority
Danish FSA
Danish Competition and Consumer Authority
Danish Appeals Boards Authority
Danish Patent and Trademark Office
Danish Safety Technology Authority
Danish Maritime Authority
1 department
7 agencies
9 institutions
Main task of The Danish Business Authority
4Danish Business Authority
Business service and registration of companies
Business development and digital growth
Business regulation and supervision planning
and rural business
EU and international affairs
Contact with everyone in the business community
5Danish Business Authority
Visitors at
VIRK.dk
27MLook-ups at
VIRK INDBERET
10Mcompanies in the
Central Business
Register
798.000registration of
companies
(1.867 a day)
682.000
annual reports
recieved
277.000calls annually
(715 a day)
180.500immediate
decisions
93%customer
satisfaction
92,6%
During 2018 we had
Filing the annual report at the DBA TODAY
6Danish Business Authority
• XBRL
Company A
• Validations
DBA• PDF
• XBRL
Publication
Filing the annual report at the DBAFUTURE
7Danish Business Authority
• IXBRL
Company A
• Validations
DBA• IXBRL
• XBRL
Publication
8Danish Business Authority
Choice of taxonomy?
9Danish Business Authority
• UpdatedESEF-
taxonomy
• CostlymaintananceDK-IFRS
taxonomy
Annual reports vs. Interim reports
10Danish Business Authority
Annual reports
XBRL/PDF
Interim reports
XBRL/PDF
Annual reports
IXBRL
Interim reports
IXBRL
Tagging
11Danish Business Authority
DK-taxonomy
CVR number, Auditor-statement,
statement of CSR etc.
ESEF-taxonomy
Primary financialstatements
Voluntary IFRS-reporting
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IFRS-filers
Voluntary IFRS-filers
DK-Gaap filers
The digital eco-system
13Danish Business Authority
XBRL DK
Authorities
FSR –Danish
Auditors
XBRL Tools
Analysts
How to get there?
14Danish Business Authority
DK-GAAP-filers
15Danish Business Authority
• Over 270.000 annual reports
• 3 different filing-solutions• Regnskab Basis: IXBRL• Regnskab Special: XBRL/PDF or IXBRL• System2System: XBRL/PDF
DK GAAP-filers
16Danish Business Authority
• IXBRL validator 1.0 -> 1.1
• Base 64 encoding images
• IXBRL validations (looking at ESEF for inspiration)
Timeline
Danish Business Authority 17
Q3 + Q4 2019
Regulation
Now!
Discussion attention points
2020
Mandatory IFRS IXBRL
2020
Mandatory DK gaap IXBRL
2019 + 2020
Adjustments IT
DBA and externally
18Danish Business Authority
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• Standard chart of accounts just released.
• Only small companies.
• Purpose: First step of automating the bookkeeping of small companies.
Standard chart of accounts
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• According to Denmark’s Nationalbank's Payment Council, there are large social
costs associated with payments between companies.
• Manually managing payments (eg invoice submission, payment, reconciliation
and bookkeeping) is resource-intensive and costs companies up to DKK 4.2
billion. annually.
• All billing to the public in Denmark has been done electronically for more than 10
years, but trading B2B is often not done electronically. Only 16-30 per cent of
Danish companies can receive an e-invoice.
Electronic invoicing as a prerequisite for automation
Flügger Årsrapportering- iXBRL
Heidi Liljenbøl
Group financial controller
Ansvarlig for bl.a. årsregnskabsprocessen for Flügger koncernen og alle koncernens datterselskaber.
Ansat i Flügger siden 1. december 2014
Majbritt Scheller
Head of Corporate Accounting- Herunder
AccountingCredit ControlPayroll
Ansvarlig for bl.a. Flüggers eksterne finansielle rapportering
Ansat i Flügger siden 1. november 2014
Flügger fabrikken i Kolding –farvesat af Poul Gernes
Kort fortalt
Flügger udvikler, producerer og markedsfører et bredt og koordineret sortiment inden for dekorativ maling, træbeskyttelse, spartelmasse, tapet og maleværktøj i høj kvalitet.
Forretningsmodel
Nettoomsætning: 1,818 mia. DKK
Norge14%
Danmark, Island,
Grønland og Færøerne
37%
Sverige 34%
Polen, Kina og
øvrig eksport
15%
Vores produkter forhandles via detailkæden Flügger farver med mere end 500 butikker fordelt på Norden, Polen og Kina.2017/18 regnskabstal
1.614 medarbejdere
Butikker Salg
Produktion Logistik
Admin + R&D
2017/18 regnskabstal
Flügger’s ejerstruktur
I 1983 blev Flügger børsnoteret på Københavns Fondsbørs – med en børsværdi på 1 mia. DKK. Flügger aktien handles under fondskode FLUG-B.
Over 50% af Flügger aktier (og over 80% af stemmerne)ejes af familien Schnack
Flügger group A/S (moderselskab)
Tilknyttede selskaber:
- Flügger Denmark A/S- PP professional paint A/S- Flügger Sweden AB- Flügger Norway AS- Flügger Sp. Z o. o.- Flügger Iceland ehf.- Flügger Coating (Shanghai) Co., ltd.- Flügger Paint (Shanghai) Co., ltd.- Flügger Limited
Flügger og digitalisering
• øge system understøttelse – hermed også sikring af sikkerhed
• øge fleksibilitet – væk fra manuelle/krævende processer
• øge transparens – hvem, hvad og hvor
• minimere risici
Digitalisering af årsrapport processen
2014/15
Delvis manuel konsolidering i excel. Manuel indhentning af
årsregnskabsdata
Mange iterationer med Grafiker, ledelse og bestyrelse om opsætning
Godkendelse på bestyrelsesmøde
XBRL
udarbejdelse og indberetning via PWC
2015/16 + 2016/17
Delvis manuel konsolidering i excel. Manuel indhentning af
årsregnskabsdata
Mange manuelle iterationer med Grafiker, ledelse og bestyrelse om
opsætning
Godkendelse på bestyrelsesmøde
XBRL
udarbejdelse - ParsePort
indberetning - Flügger
2017/18 + 2018/19
Fuld automatisk konsolidering. Mindre manuel indhentning af årsregnskabsdata
Mange manuelle iterationer med Grafiker, ledelse og bestyrelse om opsætning
Godkendelse på bestyrelsesmøde
XBRL
udarbejdelse - ParsePort
indberetning - Flügger
Forventinger tl
2019/20 og frem
Fuld automatisk konsolidering. Mindre manuel indhentning af
årsregnskabsdata
Færre iterationer med Grafiker, ledelse og bestyrelse om
opsætning grundet elektronisk datastyring via iXBRL Collaborated
Workspace
Godkendelse på bestyrelsesmøde
iXBRL
Udarbejdet undervejs - ParsePort
indberetning - Flügger
Integreret konsolideringsløsning
Integreret IXBRL og årsrapport proces
Moderselskab + 12 datterselskaberModerselskab + 9 datterselskaber
Den nye proces
CollaboratedWorkspace
Finance- Konsolidering af data - Kontrol/styring af
processer- Klargøring til ledelsen- Løbende analyser- Procesejer
XBRL Specialist- Sparring med
Finance- Løbende
opdateringer mod ESEF regler/ordbog
- (Klargøring af data)- (Sikring af tagging)
Ledelse- Review af
regnskab
Revisor- Kontrol af
tagging- Rådgivning- Sikring
Designer- Udvikling af grafisk
materiale/identitet.- Klargøring af HTML
Fordele / Ulemper
Alt samles i én fil
Bedre og mindre kontrolarbejde iproduktions processen
Indsigt i mapning af XBRL
Mindre risiko for fejl
I tråd med digitaliseringsstrategi
Tidsbesparende når det erimplementeret ift. i dag
Investering i ny løsning og omskoling af personale
Mere tidsforbrug i opstarten hvorder i forvejen er begrænset tid
Ekstra opgaver første år
ESMA lader vente på sig med svarpå vigtige spørgsmål
Hvorfor den valgte løsning
Meget arbejde konsolideres allerede i Excel.Vi vil lave den rigtige proces fra starten.Meget forberedelse er allerede gjort.Strukturen er allerede på plads.Anerkendt leverandør.
Konklusion / Anbefalinger
Start tidligt! Jo før, jo lettere bliver første år
Gentænk processen! Nu når der alligevel ændres i den
Udnyt stilleperioden! Til at få de fundamentale ting på plads
Find en passende balance.Mellem specialister og in-house kompetencer
Spørgsmål / Kommentar
Hvad betyder iXBRL for tidsplanen ifm. årsrapportens udarbejdelse?
Hvordan håndteres mapning?
Hvorfor ikke fortsætte med PDF ”modellen”?
Hvilken rolle kommer revisor til at spille ift. iXBRL
Tak
PARSEPORT APSMichael Krog
XBRL made simple
OM PARSEPORT
- Etableret januar 2010.
- Tilbyder løsninger inden for Finansiel rapportering herunderCRD IV, Solvency II, GAAP ogESEF.
- Kontorer i Albertslund, DK ogAmsterdam, NL.
- Aktive medlemmer af XBRL konsortiet.
Kim Eriksen &Michael Krog
NOGLE AF VORES KUNDER
XBRLFinance CORPORATECOMMUNICATION
NUVÆRENDE WORKFLOWFREMTIDENS WORKFLOW
iXBRL
Revisor
i
iXBRL
Finance CORPORATECOMMUNICATION
COLLABORATED WORKSPACE
iXBRL
Revisor
PARSEPORTCOLLABORATEDWORKSPACE
TAK
The European Single Electronic Format (ESEF)
The ESEF and the role of the auditor
21.05.2019
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Will the auditors have to check the XBRL-tags imbedded in the xHTML document?
Still under consideration!
Should the XBRL tags in the AFRs be audited?
Mandatory audit is not part of the ESEF-mandate, but the role of the auditor is still under consideration by the European Commission. The Commission has signalled, that assurance is intended for ESEF.
Auditors generally give their opinion on the true and fair view of the financial statements as a whole and not on the individual disclosures in the financial statements. An auditors opinion on XBRL tags will necessarily be of a different kind and as for now, there is no specific standard, etc. for such an opinion.
If it is decided, that the XBRL tags should be part of the auditors opinion on the annual financial reports or a separate opinion, then the auditors got to have standards and guidelines to which they can refer when planning and performing their work and forming the opinion to be given. Work is being done on a European Level.
If audit becomes a requirement then “normal” independency requirements will apply and therefore the auditor will not be able to assist their clients preparing the AFRs.
If the regulators should be in doubt whether to make auditors opinion on XBRL-tags mandatory, there can be referred to a number studies, feedback from respondents to the original ESEF discussion paper, experiences from Denmark on the use of XBRL-data, etc. that supports the view, that the XBRL-data should be “audited”.
This quote is taken from a white paper issued by the Columbia Business School (2012) when seeking an explanation to why the XBRL-data for the US-listed companies was not used by investors and analysts:
In USA audit of XBRL reporting is not mandatory, but manycompanies have chosen to have the auditor to perform AgreedUpon Procedures of the XBRL filing to give Managementcomfort that the filing is in compliance with the requirements.
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Things to consider regarding an auditor’s opinion on the xHTML document
• The meaning of “True and Fair View” in the context of iXBRL?
• Management’s explicit assertion about the iXBRL data?
• Materiality in the context of electronic tags?
• Availability of the auditor’s report in the iXBRL document and tag of the data that are covered by the auditor’s report?
• National competent authority overlay and voluntary tagging –eg. Danish Business Authority’s requirement in connection with submission of the annual report as approved at the shareholders general meeting?
• Technical verification of the electronic document?
• Available software to support the auditors work and report?
CEAOB INTERNATIONAL AUDITING STANDARDS SUB-GROUP - Work Plan 2019:
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