U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (U.S. SEC) Filings in SAP Disclosure Management

To use U.S. SEC reporting, you have to install four plugins in SAP Disclosure Management from the Plugin Administration area:
  • U.S. SEC Creation Plugin
  • U.S. SEC Validation Plugin
  • U.S. SEC Calculation Trace Plugin
  • U.S. SEC Preview Plugin

SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper supports you in preparing your data according to the requirements of the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (U.S. SEC). You can create valid XBRL documents in SAP Disclosure Management and map XBRL units, XBRL contexts, XBRL footnotes, and XBRL taxonomies to numerical data and texts. This is done by tagging the relevant data. The XBRL creation process is initiated in SAP Disclosure Management and is supported by the SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper (DM XBRL Mapper) in MS Excel and MS Word.

To use SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper, you have to download it from SAP Service Marketplace and install it on your client. You must first have installed the client of SAP Disclosure Management 10.1. To start SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper in your client, choose Start SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper.

The process for creating an XBRL report is as follows:

  1. Download SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper from the Software Download Center onSAP Support PortalInformation published on SAP site and install it on your client.
  2. Create a U.S. SEC XBRL report type.
  3. Define, create, and configure an XBRL report based on the respective report type in SAP Disclosure Management.
  4. Install the required taxonomy on your SAP Disclosure Management server.
  5. Check out the relevant chapters in SAP Disclosure Management.
  6. After starting SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper in Microsoft Excel or Word on your client, choose Load Taxonomy to load the taxonomy to your client. The XBRL contexts will then be displayed in a tree structure. All XBRL contexts and XBRL units defined on the server are displayed on the left side of the screen in the mapping Area as fields that you can select.
  7. After loading the taxonomy, you use SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper to select and assign texts and numerical data to the corresponding taxonomy concept.
    Note You cannot use this function offline.
  8. Check in the relevant chapters in SAP Disclosure Management.
  9. Complete and validate the XBRL report in SAP Disclosure Management. It is then ready for transmission to your regulator.
Note You can only use this function if you have installed SAP Disclosure Management 10.1 or higher.