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BizFin x : Business Financials in XBRL. BERNICE QUEK Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Singapore. XBRL. Overall direction is to enable: A pro-enterprise financial reporting environment for businesses in Singapore
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BizFinx : Business Financials in XBRL BERNICE QUEK Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Singapore
XBRL • Overall direction is to enable: • A pro-enterprise financial reporting environment for businesses in Singapore • A value-enhancing financial information flow to the local and international business community
XBRL Revamp • Built on XBRL experience • Consortium consists of Deloitte, IRIS and CrimsonLogic • Launched on 3 March 2014 • (www.bizfinx.gov.sg)
XBRL Revamp Balancing the needs of consumers and preparers Increasing the breadth and depth of XBRL data Facilitating preparation and filing of XBRL data Collect what consumers of financial statements want for analysis Burden and effort required by preparers to provide the data in XBRL
Support for Companies • Free seminars + subsidised courses • Dedicated hotline • Dictionary of suggested synonyms of taxonomy elements • Guides • FAQ • Free preparation tool • Offline • Auto-tagging • Drag and Drop • More time for filing – 1st year of implementation • Free Data Analysis
Value Of XBRL Data • Dynamic financial analysis for business decisions • Financial indicators available for free data analysis
Value Of XBRL Data • Corporate Compliance & Financial Profile (CCFP) • Business Profile Information • Compliance Rating • Key Financial Information (over 3 years) • Balance Sheet • Profit and Loss • CCFP Sample.pdf or
Examples of XBRL Usage in ACRA • Surveillance of companies’ financial statements • Financial statements with qualified audit opinion • Non-compliance with Companies’ Act • Trend analysis of company’s performance over years and comparison against industry benchmarks • Monitoring of delinquent public accountants • E.g. non-compliance with accounting standards not flagged out by the auditor 15
Technology Trends • Analytics • Promote consumption of XBRL data • 2014 XBRL International Conference : • “Better Data For Better Decision” • Mobile Enterprise • Cloud Computing • Big Data • XBRL and non-XBRL data
Business Analytics – Financial Strategic Intelligence Reports
Mobile Apps Potential Market Tools to Present Collated Data • Mobile applications available in US • From primary statements to specific data elements in the notes for closer examination Source: XBRL: Putting Intelligence Into Financial Reporting in CPA Singapore Magazine – BRIX a free iphone app (xbrl.us/research/pages/iphone.aspx)
Cloud Computing • 5 Layers of Cloud • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (PaaS) • Virtual machines service accessed over the network providing compute and/or storage capabilities • Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) • Platform software services (e.g. middleware) on which web service based applications can be built • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) • Application provided as a service with • end user licence • Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) • Data or information delivered from the • Cloud as raw data sets or consumed • through an analytics interface • Business Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) • Business services that are aligned to • Business process and associated • measurable business outcomes • Source: XBRL 26 International Conference : Technology and Market Trends CLOUD IT
BIG Data • Massive volume • Structured and unstructured data • Different sources • Difficult to process using traditional database and software techniques
Realising the Technology Solution • Data collected by various organizations for various purposes and requirements • Data from different sources brought together in a meaningful way – BIG DATA. • Cloud computing technology and its advantages are being leveraged to bring this all together in a big data mash up to facilitate “Better Data for Better Decision” BIG DATA Provide platform to analyse the data Source data from different sources and formats Integrate and compile CLOUD BASED SOLUTION