1. Resolve the company
NVDA) or, better, the CIK (1045810) — the CIK survives ticker
changes.
2. Pull the statements
revenue) and the period end date of the
quarter you care about.
3. Trace the line
- the XBRL concept the value was standardized from
- the accession number of the filing it was taken from
- the calculation tree the line participates in — how the statement ties
4. Cite it
Q3 FY2025 revenue: $35.08B — 10-Q 0001045810-24-000316, period ending 2025-01-26,
latest-restated basis.
That’s the whole discipline. If you need what the company originally filed instead
of the latest restatement, add reporting_basis=as_reported in step 2.