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Case Analysis : Us Securities And Exchange Commissions

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Chao-Wei Chang
Enterprise IT Integration
October 22, 2015
MACPA Case Analysis
Executive Summary The US Securities and Exchange Commissions required many large public companies to submit financial reports in XBRL format, but organizations often concern about the cost and time that associate to transform all their financial data to XBRL. The Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants, a privately held nonprofit company, recognized the value of XBRL to reduce transactional costs and improve operational efficiency. They believed converting their accounting data to XBRL format would deliver more benefits than the costs. With Altova MapForce and FlowForce Server, MACPA was able to transform all data from different systems to XBRL and automate data collection and extraction processes. Not only has the project driven operational efficiencies and increase data accessibility, but also potentially enabled MACPA to submit information to SEC in XBRL.
Main Analysis
Solution 1: Altova MapForace and FlowForce MACPA implemented Altova MapForce software to transform their financial data from Microsoft Dynamics and AM.net to XBRL, and help them to automate the process of generating XBRL instance file as request which significantly increase the efficiency of collecting and compiling data. Using MapForce, business data is collected from various sources to the target by simply connecting lines between data source, such as SQL server, to the target. MACPA took advantage of MapForce

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