As most of you will know by now, CIPC in South Africa will require iXBRL format Annual Financial Statements to be submitted with Annual Returns for certain companies and close corporations as from 1 July 2018. This doesn’t apply to the Annual Financial Statements of many companies and cc’s that are produced using AuditMate / Accountsmate, so for many clients this is not applicable right now.
iXBRL filing is required when any of the following apply:
• Your entity has a Memorandum of Incorporation that prescribes filing of audited financial statements.
• Your entity is a private or personal liability company and, in the ordinary course of its primary activities, it holds assets in a fiduciary capacity for persons who are not related to the company, and the aggregate value of such assets held at any time during the financial year exceeds R5 million.
• Your entity is a private or personal liability company that compiles its AFSs internally (for example, by its financial director or one of the owners) and has a Public Interest Score (PIS) of 100 or more.
• Your entity is a private or personal liability company that has its AFSs compiled by an independent party (such as an external accountant) and has a Public Interest Score (PIS) of 350 or more.
So this is initially aimed at the larger, non-owner-managed entities. If you have clients that will be required to file iXBRL AFS, please let me know how many and which accounting framework they are using i.e. IFRS or IFRS for SMEs. Email: Carl@itmates.co.za
IT Mates has been busy with a new development, iXBRL Mate which is designed to work with AuditMate / AccountsMate and automatically ‘tag’ the Excel AFS in order to produce the required iXBRL submission file for CIPC. This has been an extensive and difficult project, but we are finally getting to a working version which we hope to demonstrate within a couple of weeks.
We will keep you all informed about our proposed webinars to launch and demonstrate iXBRL Mate.
Hope this is helpful…