Talk:XBRL/Archives/2018
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Referenced blog post doesn't support the statement about Hoffman's prediction on future quality
The Lack of accuracy section includes the statement:
In December 2017, Charlie Hoffman stated that there is a 10.2% chance that an XBRL-based public company financial report has errors in its primary financial statements. Hoffman predicts that per the current number of errors and the pace errors are being corrected, within about five years the information quality of XBRL-based public company financial reports will be very good.[19]
The statement has a reference to support the statement.
19. "Quarterly XBRL-based Public Company Financial Report Quality Measurement (Nov 2017)". Archived from the original on 2017-12-02.
I read that webpage cited (as well as the archived page), and didn't see any statements or predictions that regarding the quality of reports in the future. Perhaps the stated prediction is an inference between the cited article and Hoffman's previous test results and a different or additional webpage needs to be cited. I think a reference to the post cited is worthwhile to include in the "Lack of accuracy" section, but the way it is currently presented is misleading.
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