Grasp the XBRL opportunity

Informed Magazine

UK companies will soon be required to step up their use of online filing with XBRL technology. So why not get ahead of the game and transform your financial reporting, argues Mark Nashman of Clarity Systems. Read more...

X Marks the Spot...

CFO.com

John Stantial of UTC references his firm’s use of CLARITY FSR for XBRL filing in this CFO Magazine article that stresses the need for, and also the complexity of, filing financial statements in XBRL. Read more...

Adobe raises the bar with footnote tagging

IR Magazine

Louis Matherne, Clarity’s Director of XBRL Services and David Blaszkowsky, Head of Interactive Disclosure at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), discuss level 4 XBRL tagging-on the horizon for first-wave filers in 2010. Read more...

IS Partners brings CPM solutions to Africa

IT-Online South Africa

Clarity continues global expansion through new business partnerships by teaming with local experts. Read more...

G4S to use CLARITY FSR

FSN

G4S, a listed security services provider, has purchased the CLARITY FSR reporting solution to help produce the firm's financial reports and accounts, to release to the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the Copenhagen Stock Exchange and file with Companies House, beginning with the firm's fiscal 2009 annual report. Read more...

Clarity Systems, Thomson Reuters in Partnership

Compliance Week

Clarity Systems, Thomson Reuters in Partnership - Clarity Systems and Thomson Reuters have recently struck a deal to let users of CLARITYs FSR products access relevant tools on Thomson's Checkpoint platform. The agreement should help users simplify their financial processes and reduce risks in external reporting... Read more...

XBRL Panel Says Don't Put Off Planning, Take Responsibility

Financial Executive Magazine / FEI

Louis Matherne, Director of XBRL Services for Clarity Systems was the only vendor voice on an FEI panel discussion focusing on XBRL implementations according to the SEC mandate. Based on his practical, in-field experience, Matherne outlined key implementation questions that firms should consider, and the value-add of tagging and formatting one's documents internally... Read more...

Clarity Systems and the London Stock Exchange Company News Service Partner

BeyeNetwork

BeyeNETWORK.com is the primary site of the BeyeNETWORK, providing viewers with access to the thought leaders in business intelligence, performance management, business integration, information quality, data warehousing and more. As such, it carried the partnership between the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Clarity as front-page news recently.... Read more...

Tool Time

Treasury & Risk Magazine

"Clarity Systems of Toronto is now offering CLARITY FSR 6.5. The product, which was launched in 2007 as financial reporting software, has been enhanced to become a unified financial governance solution..." Read more...

Software Vendors Ramp up XBRL

XBRL Blog Magazine

(By Ventana Research) While companies can outsource the XBRL tagging process to their financial printer, we believe that over the long run finance departments will find that it makes more sense to do the tagging themselves... Last year, Clarity Systems began offering an application suite that manages the preparation of external financial filings from closing the books to the final publishing of XBRL-tagged statements (the "close-to-report cycle")... The four large vendors and Clarity are integrating XBRL into their applications because it is quickly becoming a must-have capability... Read more...

Clarity Systems turns up the heat on competitors as it moves to plug the XBRL skills gap

FSN

Bringing in XBRL big hitter [Louis Matherne] gives Clarity Systems a head start in a marketplace confused by the jargon and technology. It also nicely leverages Clarity's positioning around their Financial Statement Reporting (CLARITY FSR ) product..."XBRL skills are quite light on the ground and there are not enough people to support the volume of companies who are going to want the skill set at exactly the same time," Mark Nashman told FSN... Read more...

SAP Plays the Data Tagging Game

CFO.com

Clarity Systems is identified as one of the few firms offering automated XBRL tagging of financial information applications "...that are built into a financial reporting system" and forming part of an automated [external reporting] process rather than simply a "...third-party product that attaches on the end of the reporting process..." Read more...

BPM Goes Mainstream

Business Finance Magazine

Clarity Systems provides a comprehensive Web-based planning, budgeting, consolidation, reporting, and scorecarding application...[and] Clarity's Financial Statement Reporting capabilities support multiuser collaboration to improve operational efficiencies and automate creation of internal management and external statutory or regulatory financial reports, including advanced XBRL capabilities...Clarity offers a performance management "Software-as-a-Service" (SaaS) solution called Clarity OnDemand... Read more...