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Past, Current and Future Auditor Involvement with SEC Registrant's XBRL Exhibits

The 6 th Univ. of Kansas International Conference on XBRL . Past, Current and Future Auditor Involvement with SEC Registrant's XBRL Exhibits. Paul Penler – Ernst & Young LLP. Auditor’s areas of involvement. AUPs and F&R engagements Other services for audit and non-audit clients

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Past, Current and Future Auditor Involvement with SEC Registrant's XBRL Exhibits

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  1. The 6thUniv. of Kansas International Conference on XBRL Past, Current and Future Auditor Involvement with SEC Registrant's XBRL Exhibits Paul Penler– Ernst & Young LLP

  2. Auditor’s areas of involvement • AUPs and F&R engagements • Other services for audit and non-audit clients • Utilizing the XBRL data on financial audits

  3. AUP and F&R engagements

  4. AUP engagements-overview • Auditors are not required (or expected) to: • Read, perform procedures, assess, or issue separate assurance on the XBRL exhibit or controls • Agreed-upon procedures (AUP) engagements are separate from the audit and are less in scope than an audit or review – no assurance is provided. • The objective is to perform procedures in order for management to evaluate the completeness, accuracy and consistency of the XBRL data • Findings represents errors, alternatives, observations and recommendations • Procedures can be customized, but usually focus on: • Tagging selection – use of the taxonomy and extensions • Areas the SEC has identified as frequently having errors (e.g. signs, decimals, date contexts, etc) • Company should evaluate whether findings would improve the XBRL submission and make final judgment related to potential changes • Level of effort: • Typical block text engagement takes 2–3 elapsed weeks and ranges from 50–90hours • Typical initial detail tagging engagements takes 4–5 elapsed weeks and ranges from 150–250 hours • Reoccurring engagements take considerably less time • Volume of findings: • Typical detail tagging engagement averages more than 150 comments, with companies making changes on most of the commented areas

  5. AUP engagements - common errors observed • Not tagging all required information • Parenthetical information, amounts in superscript footnotes, amounts written out (e.g., twenty percent), not tagging all amounts in the notes/schedules (detail tagging) • Line items that have a non-determinable value (e.g., commitments and contingencies) • Missing required S-X schedules, not including all required levels • Not tagging all of the dimensions (e.g., missing dimensions represented in narrative) • Tag selection • Extending tags unnecessarily or selecting the wrong standard tag • Not using required tags or selecting different tags for the same amount and concept that appear more than one time in the financial statements • Other tag related errors • Wrong signs for the values (i.e., positive versus negative), wrong reporting period dates, wrong decimal settings or wrong amounts (i.e., proper number of zeros), • Wrong or missing calculations, wrong or missing units of measure • Incomplete information provided for extensions tags (e.g., missing debit or credit balances, as required) • Not using XBRL footnote links, as required

  6. AUP XBRL demand

  7. Other services for audit and non-audit clients

  8. Non AUP/F&R services • Examinations • Supporting development of creation processes and controls • Supporting development of XBRL consumption • Financial system implementation support • Other

  9. Utilizing the XBRL data on financial audits

  10. Possible areas of usage by auditors • Non Industry • Automatically updating analysis with each draft financials or when a number changes • Uses during quarterly work or Reporting/Conclusion, • Uses throughout each phase of the audit • Industry • Identify sig. accts; Rev/Exp PSP; peer/industry data w/sig. accts • Extensive use of comparative face f/s info • Moderate use of comparative F/S Note info • Benefit scanning competitor/industry notes or supplemental schedules for terms, numbers, relationships • Limitations • Timing/approach of company’s XBRL preparation • All text is not tagged at lowest level (e.g., tagging of text optional) • Data Quality

  11. It’s all about data quality When will quality XBRL data be easily accessible? One perspective in August 2009

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