As a leader in the XBRL community and a provider of robust software for structured data reporting for more than a decade, Novaworks is proud to announce our newest solution to XBRL-based compliance: XBRLworks. XBRLworks is a streamlined, easy-to-use XBRL application that will launch with support for the new FERC XBRL mandate. In 2020, the FERC officially adopted XBRL as its solution to modernizing its approach to regulated financial and other reporting in the energy industry. XBRL presents a method of tagging (or marking-up) data that adds key contextual information through dimensionality defined by an XBRL taxonomy.
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Version 5.6b of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release contains a number of improvements to the Page View editor, including enhancements to the Image Size dialog and to fields.

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The SEC will be closed Friday, January 1 in observance of New Year’s Day. The EDGAR System will not receive, process, or accept filings on this day. Filings with a due date of January 1 will be due the following business day, which is Monday, January 4.

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The SEC will be closed Thursday, December 24 and Friday, December 25 due to the closure of the federal government on these two days. The EDGAR System will not receive, process, or accept filings on either of these days. Filings with a due date of December 24 or December 25 will be considered timely if filed on or before December 28, which is the SEC’s next business day.
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On December 16, 2020, the SEC adopted rules intended to achieve the statutory objective of increasing the transparency of payments to governments for the purpose of the commercial development of their oil, natural gas, and minerals by enforcing Section 13(q) of the Exchange Act. Added to the Exchange Act in 2010 by Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Section 13(q) instructed the SEC to issue final rules that require resource extraction issuers (entities such as oil, natural gas, and mining companies that are required to file reports under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) annually to file a Form SD that includes information about payments that are made to the federal government or a foreign government related to the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals. Continue reading "SEC Approves Final Rules for the Disclosure of..." »

Version 5.6a of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release corresponds to EDGAR 20.4 and contains support for the new form types and exhibits released by the SEC in EDGAR 20.4. It also has support for other EDGAR 20.4 changes, improvements to the validation for XDX and iXBRL documents, and new tools for pasting and for iXBRL redlining.

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The SEC will be closed Thursday, November 26 in observance of Thanksgiving Day. The EDGAR System will not receive, process or accept filings on this day. Filings with a due date of November 26 will be due the following business day.
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Version 5.5c of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release contains support for the CSS 3 page break properties, as well as a number of corrections and improvements to Page View to create and validate xHTML code. Improvements and corrections were also made to XDX processing.

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The SEC will be closed Wednesday, November 11 in observance of Veterans Day. The EDGAR System will not receive, process, or accept filings on this day. Filings with a due date of November 11 will be due the following business day.
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Version 5.5b of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release contains corrections and improvements for the new redlining format for inline XBRL documents and to better validate documents produced by other HTML software. Additionally, a number of improvements have been made to XDX processing for Risk Return documents and to add new tools to adjust the default contexts used to make facts for Level 1 through 3 facts.

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The SEC has released a statement concerning inappropriate custom member use in XBRL pertaining to certain axes. The US GAAP reporting taxonomy has designated a limited set of permitted members for these axes. The SEC has observed that occasionally filers have inappropriately added custom members where they are not allowed. Continue reading "SEC Releases Statement about Inappropriate XBRL..." »

The SEC will be closed today, Monday, October 12th, in observance of Columbus Day. The EDGAR System will not receive, process or accept filings on this day. Filings with a due date of October 12th will be due the following business day. Continue reading "SEC Closed October 12th for Columbus Day" »

With the release of the new SEC fee rate table, the SEC changed the location of the table on their website. Because the software uses the location to download the fee rate table for use in calculating filing fees, the current version of the software will not be able to download the new fee rate table. Additionally, it does not detect that the fees are out of date because the old fee rate table is still available at the old location on the SEC’s website.

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In 2019, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) revised its electronic filing format to incorporate structured data in the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format. As has been the case with other federal regulators, the move to adopt XBRL is being undertaken to modernize the reporting environment and increase efficiency in submitting and consuming data. Broad support across the industry also helped drive the action.
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Version 5.5a of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release corresponds to EDGAR 20.3 and contains new form types as specified by EDGAR 20.3. Additionally, this release contains support for the new redlining format for inline XBRL documents and other EDGAR 20.3 changes. Improvements and corrections have been made to the HTML to XHTML function, to HTML validation, to XDX for Risk Return, and to various other functions.

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