Campbell Pryde, Chief Standards Officer of XBRL US, has been presenting at the recent National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) event in Baltimore. In a Tweet from the conference, Mr. Pryde said:

campbell pryde: using #XBRL to comp. top 12 assets of financial companies, it took 15mins, 12mins was spent figuring our excel

We know how to cut that 15 minutes to just 3. It’s called CrossView and CrossView lets you compare the financials of SEC corporate filers without the need for importing and massaging data in Excel. There’s no need for macros and formulas and naturally you can always export data from CrossView into Excel if you wish.

So please. Use CrossView. Gift yourself those precious 12 minutes.

Just think what you can do with 12 minutes: Gaze at the night sky, smell the autumn leaves, break out that pogo stick you have hiding under your desk and see if you can make it to Starbucks…