AMANA Italia - who we are
AMANA Italia is the Italian subsidiary of the German AMANA Consulting Group. We offer software solutions for reporting, ESEF, XBRL, Disclosure Management and IFRS 16. AMANA Italia is the direct interlocutor of our customers in Italy.
We offer you our support for an integratation of our software solutions into your business processes. We are also available to help you, answer your questions and welcome your suggestions.
AMANA was founded in 2011 as a spin-off from the financial consulting business of PwC Germany and has since successfully developed independently. The number of clients of the AMANA Group will reach 1,000 in 2021.
AMANA Italy is represented by Carlo De Sanctis, the Managing Director. Carlo has many years of professional experience both in the company and as a consultant, with projects in Italy, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Carlo is available as your direct contact.
AMANA Consulting is represented in Italy by Philipp Stampfuß. Philipp is one of the four founders of the AMANA Group in Germany.
Our software solutions
ESEF - iXBRL
With the introduction of the European Securities and Markets Authority's (ESMA) Single European Electronic Standard (ESEF), all listed companies must publish their Annual Financial Reports in XHTML format.
Consolidated Financial Statement schedules must be tagged as Inline XBRL (iXBRL) using the IFRS ratenomy.
For the first two years of application of the new regulation, only the main consolidated financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity and cash flow statement) must be tagged.
The Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements must be tagged as "text blocks" from the third year of application of the regulation.
Taxonomy extensions must be created for Financial Statement items not present in the base ratenomy.
Extensions are only allowed if there are no items in the base rate that represent the concept expressed by the budget items.
Extensions should be "anchored" to the most similar conceptual element in the base taxonomy.
XBRL tagger – ESEF Plug & Play without implementation project
With our easy-to-use XBRL certified software, you can create ESEF-compliant reporting in no time. Even without an implementation project and IT knowledge, you can immediately begin tagging your annual reports. The stand-alone XBRL tagger can recognize any data format and process all taxonomies. You can easily map IFRS taxonomy items to the corresponding financial statement numbers.
Convert any MS Word, PDF, HTML, or InDesign document to support the fast and easy operation of the stand-alone XBRL tagger. Once the mapping is done, all tags can be rolled forward to the new ESEF report in the following year.
Alternatively, the XBRL tagger is available as an integrated process solution within our disclosure management software SmartNotes. In addition to XBRL tagging, SmartNotes supports the complete end-to-end process from data imported from the consolidation system to the ready-to-print layout. Further information can be found here.
- Stand-alone-solution
- PDF / Word / InDesign tagging
- No implementation project
- All taxonomies and languages
- Auto-tagging and mapping by smart AI
- Corporate design compatible export
Disclosure Management SmartNotes: End-to-end process to the annual report
Our Disclosure Management increases the efficiency in the preparation of annual reports and iXBRL reports and helps you to implement a valid ESEF reporting. Through the integration of the XBRL tagger, SmartNotes is available as a "built-in" version. In addition to XBRL tagging, SmartNotes supports the complete end-to-end process from data imported from the consolidation system, to the ready-to-print layout.
At the same time, our ESEF reporting software offers a variety of additional functions to support the professional work of your employees and to eliminate non-value-adding activities. For example, changes to a data import lead to an update of affected contents, in the tables, in the continuous text and in all language variants of your annual reports.
With our built-in role concept and full audit trail, we offer you revision security and also respond to your individual requirements. In addition, imported values, rounding adjustments, created taggings and texts are retained for the next report. In addition to ESEF, you can choose from a variety of other output formats, such as print-ready Word, PDF, Excel, InDesign, XBRL or iXBRL.
Layouts directly from SmartNotes:
IFRS 16 compliant with the GlobalLeaseCenter
You still balance leasing contracts with Excel? We have the safer and cost-efficient alternative!
Our web-based IFRS 16 software supports you not only in the calculation and booking of leasing contracts and the determination of notes, but also in the decentralised recording and administration of contracts.
The complexity of the new IFRS 16 regulations often presents leasing-intensive companies with problems. This has come to an end with AMANA! Our IFRS 16 leasing software integrates all requirements in our standard set, which guarantees a quick implementation! With GlobalLeaseCenter you are ready to go in just a few days!
More time for the core task with the XBRL Auditor
The new ESEF regulation has increased the complexity of auditing annual reports many times over. Our certified AMANA XBRL auditor ensures that you solve the complex requirements without any problems and that no time is wasted comparing XHTML and iXBRL. This gives you time for your actual main task, the verification of the tagging against your IFRS knowledge.
Based on our experience from numerous XBRL projects, we have implemented the listed features in a targeted manner and support you holistically throughout the entire validation process. Simplify the validation and audit of ESEF and iXBRL reports with us!
The AMANA XBRL Auditor supports you holistically:
- The automation of the technical validation in accordance with the ESMA validation rules.
- Checks the integrity of the machine- and human-readable document.
- Tagging of final tables can be ticked off and commented on line by line.
- Supports documentation with checklists
- Version control with intelligent change detection and comparison between changes in two versions
- Customer communication with comments
- Four-eyes principle and review function
User
Webinars
Disclosure Management SmartNotes: End-to-end process to the ESEF and ESG annual report
Our Disclosure Management SmartNotes increases the efficiency in the creation of annual reports and iXBRL reports and helps you to implement the ESEF requirements. Work with SmartNotes from the first data import, through the input of corrections, to the publication of the annual report in a print-ready layout without media discontinuity. Our Disclosure Management System relieves you of the manual work steps so that you can concentrate on essential content.
Referents: Björn Bielesch and Nina Schüller
ESEF text block tagging - Lessons Learned
According to the new ESEF Regulation, the tagging scope for the preparation of ESEF annual reports ending after 01.01.2022 has been significantly increased. The full notes to the financial statements have to be tagged with text block taggings, additionally to the main financial statements, which is a new challenge for preparers and audit firms.
In our webinar, the experiences from the first year of ESEF implementation will be presented, especially regarding text block tagging. In addition to the technical requirements, we will also discuss practical examples of our intelligent software solution SmartNotes.
Referents: Paul Beckmann and Catalina Ibanez
ESG Reporting with AMANA: Automated Data Flow and integrated XBRL Tagging
The current European Sustainability Reporting Standard (ESRS) exposure draft, as published by EFRAG defines 178 sector-agnostic disclosure requirements, sector specific disclosure requirements are not yet defined. Those disclosure requirements describe hundreds of single data points and narrative disclosures that must be reported in a human-readable report, as well as in a digital and machine-readable format.
It includes data points on water and energy consumption, Greenhouse Gas emissions, pollution, biodiversity as well as many social aspects like disclosures on workforce. Policies, targets, and specific action plans will have to be reported in order to see how companies are going to face the challenges of a changing world and climate change.
In our webinar, we are going to summarize the challenges regarding the actual reporting and publication process, which includes:
• How to calculate, collect and consolidate the required data points by using solutions from AMANA partners.
• Using disclosure management software to be able to work collaboratively on the sustainability statements.
• Automate the data flow from various sources into management reports in order to eliminate manual and error-prone process as well as to optimize the last-mile reporting process.
• Options how to handle formatting and the production of glossy and ready-to-print reports in Word or InDesign as well as online reports.
• Digital tagging of sustainability and financial statements with the ESRS or ISSB XBRL taxonomy.
• Auditing and publication of the final report.
Referents: Richard Bössen and Philipp Stampfuß
How to create an ESEF reporting in no time - Plug & Play with the AMANA XBRL Tagger
In our webinar, we will present our solution outlining the simple handling of report production and the automated tagging support feature based on artificial intelligence (AI) developed by AMANA, which significantly simplifies the creation of ESEF reports.
Referents: Nina Schüller and Janis Steinmann
Contact
- Anna Maria Bigoni
- annamaria.bigoni@amana-consulting.it
- +39 375 6632794
- Anna Maria Bigoni @ LinkedIn
Partners
Our client projects
Geberit
Geberit has been using SmartNotes for many years. Our online annual report has an interface with SmartNotes. The data is transferred from the financial report via interface to the online report. The interface processes not only the financial figures but also the formats, so that manual post-processing in the online report is largely eliminated. The manual steps that do not add value have thus been eliminated from the process.
Richemont
Richemont uses SmartNotes for external and internal reports. For us, the key advantages include saving time with automated numbers in tables and text as well as the roll-forward process, being able to work in parallel as SmartNotes allows several people to work on the same document at once and internal consistency within the reports and between the reports, for example between annual report and annual analyst presentation or interim report and interim analyst presentation. Smartnotes has also helped us to improve the efficiency of our internal reporting.
Glencore
We implemented SmartNotes for our financial and production reporting and have reached a high level of automation in our work process. The excellent functionalities for numbers as well as the design implementation within SmartNotes has made the reporting process both more efficient and completely transparent. The SmartNotes project team supported us competently and professionally throughout the entire implementation period.Being a listed company on the London stock exchange we are using Smartnotes to prepare the ESEF report (European Single Electronic Format), with taggings of primary statements as well as notes to the financial statements. We performed the project with internal resources and the support from AMANA, using their competences in both areas XBRL technical and accounting. The integration of XBRL tagging into SmartNotes has allowed us to further enhance the automation in the report production process.
Duferco
We are using SmartNotes for two reports on a quarterly/semiannual basis. SmartNotes has a highly sophisticated functionality for financial reports and helps us to concentrate on content while automating numbers in tables in text. The roll-forward functionality is also very helpful and allows us to produce the first versions of the next period reports in just couple of minutes. Although we are not a public company, with no requirement to publish our financial statements, we nevertheless use the Layout Robot feature to prepare internal reports with professional layouts for our main stakeholders (shareholders and banks).
Caleffi S. p. A.
Amana: a safe and reliable partner for the preparation of consolidated financial statements according to the European single electronic standard (ESEF). I greatly appreciated the professional competence, precision and availability that the Amana team dedicated to the work of preparing the financial statements in XHTML format, using Amana's XBRL Tagger.
Restart S. p. A.
Amana: a safe and reliable partner for the preparation of consolidated financial statements according to the European single electronic standard (ESEF). I greatly appreciated the professional competence, precision and availability that the Amana team dedicated to the work of preparing the financial statements in XHTML format, using Amana's XBRL Tagger.
Primeo Energie
We use SmartNotes to compile four independent annual reports, one group report, and three segment reports. From the point of view of communication and procedures, it was crucial for us that the reports, created with Word, were fully ready for printing. SmartNotes fulfills this task skillfully. In particular, we benefit from automation advantages, especially in the financial reporting sector. In addition, from the outset we now have only print-ready reports in our internal process, which is very helpful and efficient for corrections or content coordination.
Haniel
During our decision process for the best software solution to fulfill the IFRS 16 requirements, the GlobalLeaseCenter convinced us by the following competitive advantages: on the one hand, it is flexible and therefore easy to integrate into our IT environment and on the other hand, the project team from AMANA was highly competent in both areas in IFRS and in IT specific technical details.
Idorsia
SmartNotes significantly facilitates Idorsia’s Financial Reporting process and was particularly helpful in the IPO (Initial Public Offering) process and for the first financial reporting a few weeks after the demerger. Using the strong collaboration and review capabilities, and how layout changes can be easily implemented, SmartNotes allows to focus on quality and consistency.
FMA
The Financial Market Authority Liechtenstein collaborates with AMANA for many years. For us, AMANA is first and foremost an XBRL specialist with in-depth XBRL expertise and a global reach. This expertise, which is based on many years of XBRL experience, was crucial for us and the key factor for project success. Furthermore, AMANA is continuing to support us in projects implementing multiple requirements from European Authorities, for example MiFID II (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II), AIFMD (Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive) and others. AMANA supports us with the development of our national statutory reporting taxonomy as well.
CtrlPrint
We have successfully integrated AMANA's XBRL Tagger, a certified XBRL solution, into CtrlPrint to enable our corporate users to make their financial reports ESEF-ready in a fast and effective way. In our tagging sessions in December 2019, 30 listed companies were able, to a very large extent, tag previous year's annual report and create iXBRL reports as a perfect basis for the 2020 report, fulfilling ESMA requirements. Our users, who in general are not familiar with XBRL, were impressed by the easy-to-use functionality of AMANA's XBRL Tagger and the way it played down ESEF/XBRL to something more familiar. We are convinced that it is a perfect addition to our report collaboration tool.
Arkk solutions
Arkk use AMANA's software to provide an outsourced iXBRL tagging service. The software is easy to use and intuitive for both the user and the reviewer. The team at AMANA have been very responsive with incorporating feedback into the software and have been great to work with. We have received some super feedback on the iXBRL output from a number of our clients, especially around the ease of review.