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     XBRL  for  Nonprofit  Financials  

Maryland Association of CPAs

• 8,500  CPA  members  • $6.5  million  budget  • 34  employees  

Maryland  AssociaHon  of  CPAs                                    

• Global  Ledger  • BoJom  up  approach  • “Free”  the  data  • Faster  informaHon  

What  Intrigued  us?  

•  It  will  change  how  they  work!  • Less  compiling  • More  analysis  and  interpretaHon  

Why  is  this  important  to  CPAs?  

• Mapping  was  a  challenge  • Non-­‐Profits  need  their  own  taxonomy  • XBRL  would  be  beneficial  in  the  non-­‐profit  community  

IniHal  work  on  XBRL  

•  Tagged  at  the  transacHon  level  •  Tagged  our  membership  database  &  Dynamics  •  Pulled  from  both  to  populate  reports  •  Drill  down  capability  •  Faster  informaHon  

Recent  XBRL  work…...  

• Difficult  to  quanHfy  • More  detail  •  Faster  • AutomaHon  • Deeper  informaHon  

Global  Ledger  Savings?  

•  Map  accounHng  data  to  XBRL  Global  Ledger  Taxonomy  

•  Use  Dynamics  and  Am.Net  •  Use  Excel  data  import  for  KPI  analysis,  other  apps  •  UHlize  Global  Ledger  data  to  automate  internal  financial  reporHng  process  –  KPIs,  Audit,  Freedom  of  Data  

Technical  Overview  

•  Membership  database  –  AM.Net  –  A/R  –  A/P  –  Event  Data  –  No  Accruals  accounted  for  in  reports  

•  Microsoc  Dynamics  –  Accruals  –  Budgets  –  FRX  Reports  

 

MACPA’s  AccounHng  System  

•  AccounHng  Systems  Don’t  talk  to  each  other  

•  Staff  require  different  data  sets  

•  “Are  the  numbers  right”  –  manual  process  response  

Disconnects/Fix  

•  XBRL  Global  Ledger!  •  AlternaHve  soluHon:  –  Give  Dynamics  and  Am.Net  an  UlHmatum:  Stop  ignoring  each  other  or  we  are  switching  to  QuickBooks  unHl  they  start  behaving.  

•  Altova  Mapforce  •  IdenHfy  correct  informaHon  –  tables  in  DB  •  Use  SQL  to  retrieve  relevant  data  •  AccounHng  Data  to  XBRL  GL  Taxonomy  •  Process  XBRL  GL  Data  using  SQL  •  Create  batch  files  to  update  instance  documents  

Mapping  

AM.Net  to  XBRL  GL      

Dynamics  to  XBRL  GL  

AccounHng  Data  Dynamics  Microsoc  Dynamics  

AccounHng  Data  

Associa'on  Management  Database  

XBRL  GL  Data  

Excel  XML  Import  

Financial  Scoreboard  Graph  

Audit  Worksheet  Budget  vs.  Actual  

Drill  Down  Internal  Statements  

Drill  Down  Internal  Statements  2nd  Level  Down  

Drill  Down  Internal  Statements  Third  Level  

•  Faster  movement  of  data  •  Reduced  manual  effort  •  ReducHon  of  errors  •  Comparability  across  other  organizaHons  •  Deeper  analysis  – TransacHon  level  detail  availability  – Annual,  Quarterly,  Monthly  for  past  11  years  of  data  

Global  Ledger  Benefits?  

•  Non-­‐profit  taxonomy  •  Form  990  populaHon  •  SBR  in  Maryland?  •  Direct  Cash  Flow  Statement  -­‐  With  drill  down  •  Salesforce.com  •  Sharing  data  

Where  are  we  going?  

Consider  Global  Ledger  

Set  Your  Data  Free!  

Copyright  Paramount  Pictures  

•  Eric  Cohen  –  PwC  •  Mike  Willis  –  PwC  •  Tara  LeFave  –  Altova  •  Beth  O’Brien  -­‐  Altova  •  Taylor  Hawes  –  Microsoc  •  Chethan  Gorur  –  Trintech  

Thanks  to…….  

•  Skip  Falatko  •  skip@macpa.org  •  Linkedin  hJp://

www.linkedin.com/pub/skip-­‐falatko/4/14b/332  

•  Thomas  Hood  •  jh55424@gulls.salisbury.edu  •  Linkedin

hJp://www.linkedin.com/pub/thomas-­‐hood/17/76a/5a1  

Contact  info………  

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