XBRL Company Accounts

What is XBRL?

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an XML based standard to describe financial data, and facilitate the creation, distribution and re-use of business reports.

What is the XBRL Validator?

This is a service that checks your instance document for conformance against the Companies House Accounts Taxonomy.

• XBRL – Companies House Taxonomy (this link is to download a ZIP file for 20060116 taxonomy)


• XBRL – Companies House Taxonomy (this link is to download a ZIP file for 20080406 taxonomy)
  (2006 Act accounts - i.e. accounting periods commencing on or after 6 April 2008)


• A Technical Interface Specification is available via email from mconnors@companieshouse.gov.uk