XBRL John Mania Director, Product Management. Slide # 2 CNW Group & XBRL CNW Group - XBRL...

XBRL

John ManiaDirector, Product Management

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CNW Group & XBRL

CNW Group - XBRL involvement on two fronts:

News Release dissemination

Regulatory Filing to Canadian & US Securities Commissions

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XBRL Filings to SEC Q3 ‘09

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XBRL Challenges

Implementation considerations during planning processes:

People

Data

Software (technology)

Process (vendor)

Submission

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Alternatives for Tagging Your Data in XBRL

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Conversion Workflow

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Reviewer’s Guide – XBRL Excel Proof

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Reviewer’s Guide – Review XBRL Files

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Reviewer’s Guide – XBRL Validation & Filing

XBRL validation checks integrated into workflow:

Conforms to XBRL 2.1 specifications

SEC-compliant XBRL

Calculation consistencies

Test filing with SEC to pass 828 XBRL major errors & 18 warnings listed on SEC website

If test filing successful, submit XBRL

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XBRL Submission: Technology Issues with Self Filers

Issuer

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XBRL Submission: Custom tags vs. Standard Tags

VS

Custom Standard

Observations from review of Interactive Data Issuer created a custom XBRL tag when there were already standard elements available

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XBRL as filed to SEC

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XBRL Rendering through Viewer

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XBRL Sample Scenarios

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Contact Information

XBRL & Regulatory Filing:

John Mania

John.Mania@newswire.ca

416.863.5628

www.newswire.ca

www.linkedin.com

www.xbrl.ca