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17 Mar 2010
Accountancy technology company, TaxCalc, has partnered up with Arkk Solutions, an IT business, to provide online software which will convert business accounts from Excel spreadsheets to iXBRL format.
HMRevenue&Customs has mandated all companies filing tax returns from April 2011, for any accounting period after 31 March 2010, to file on the web in iXBRL, in-line eXtensible Business Reporting Language.
The new facility available to TaxCalc customers will allow users to upload information to a website, with a tagged iXBRL file returned to them ready for submission to HMRC.
iXBRL is an electronic tagging language which allows easier financial comparison for investors and other businesses.
The news from HMRC has sparked all financial software companies to build components into their technology allowing for these changes.
Anne Porter a director at TaxCalc said: "Following research, we found in addition to allowing Excel users to meet the compliance obligations, the need to develop a system which doesn’t require the users to have iXBRL or taxonomy technical knowledge was also a critical requirement."
"With this in mind and the need to develop a conversion which meant data was securely dealt with in the UK we went on to develop with Arkk a “ready-made” tool for all Excel users,” she added.
The software will be available in early May.
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Excel to iXBRL
The solution Rachel mentions in the article above is really useful if you prefer to prepare accounts in Excel. There's really no knowledge of iXBRL needed, you just add the details into an Excel spreadsheet and iXBRL come out.
http://www.arkksolutions.com/ixbrl.html
Posted by: Richard Metcalfe, 31 May 2010 | 00:00