Arjun didn’t cheer. He saved the XBRL instance file, attached it to the MCA portal, and clicked Submit. The portal said: “Acknowledgement generated. Processing may take 3-5 business days.”
Then: ✅
He added a footnote block. “Error: Footnote index out of range (max 64).” mca xbrl validation tool version 4.8
So now, at 11:47 PM, with cold coffee and a dying phone, he was re-tagging the entire balance sheet. The tool’s interface was a relic from a more optimistic era of design—beige windows, drop-downs that flickered, and a “Validate” button that seemed to sigh before it worked. Arjun didn’t cheer
The tool churned. The little hourglass (actual hourglass icon, because v4.8 was built when skeuomorphism was king) spun. attached it to the MCA portal