Rivet customers recognizing the benefits of XBRL for analyzing data takes only seconds

December 21st, 2009 by Kevin Berens - CPO

At a time when most companies are seeking out software vendors to assist them with their XBRL tagging,  our customers are seeing not only how Rivet can help them with this process, but also the huge benefit that can be recognized with XBRL.   In fact, it is so easy to create these reports, that during our demos, we are turning the controls over to our customers and letting them create these reports. Read the rest of this entry »




Creating XBRL reports, so easy a customer can do it (in a demo)

December 21st, 2009 by Kevin Berens - CPO

Creating a report that compares your company to every company in your SIC code used to be so difficult. You needed to determine the companies in your SIC code.  You needed to find the data for each company and download this into an Excel spreadsheet.  You needed to then create a bunch of formulas to consolidate this data on a single sheet.  And then next quarter you need to do this all over again. Read the rest of this entry »




XBRL & Crossfire make me want to get an MBA in Accounting

October 6th, 2009 by Natalya Kuskin - Senior Account Executive

During a call with a potential client last week, I mentioned that Rivet’s Crossfire Financial Reporting Platform makes numbers so exciting that I want to go back to school for an MBA in Accounting. He laughed and revealed that nowadays, being an accountant is less about numbers or analysis and more about rules and mandates that govern how a number is presented.

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Key Line Tagging

September 28th, 2009 by Stewart McKie - Executive Advisor

One of the promises of XBRL is that standardization of reporting elements aids transparency and comparability of financial numbers. However one important area of transparency and comparability, certainly for peer group assessment, is in the area of corporate performance. But we are a long way from standardizing the definition and metrics of corporate performance, as the March 2009 European Discussion Paper on Corporate Performance (produced by the aptly named PAAinE) highlights. Read the rest of this entry »