The US Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates the country’s stock markets, gave a major push to the electronic financial reporting language XBRL with several new initiatives this month. John Stokdyk reports. The SEC has accepted electronic filings in the extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for several years, and users can download these files for free from the SEC’s online search engine Edgar.

The 17th XBRL International Conference and Expo is co-hosted by XBRL International, Inc. and the XBRL-EU Jurisdiction and is a jointly organized event with the Netherlands Taxonomy Project conference: “Standard Business Reporting in Action.” The conference will offer the unique opportunity for visibility to not one but two groups of conference attendees under one roof [...]

The below story from Compliance Week contrasting Holland’s embrace of XBRL with that of the US.  The story cites the opinion of Dutch ministry of finance XBRL champion Harm Jan van Burg that the SEC is approaching XBRL all wrong – that the SEC should focus on the standard as an efficiency improver, get the [...]

Demonstrations on how to create XBRL-enabled financial documents, how to participate in the Public Review plus case studies from companies who are participating in the SEC’s Voluntary Filing Program.

Event Start: 2008-03-18 15:30:00

On February 13, 2008, the XBRL-based financial listed company taxonomy formulated by the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) was “Acknowledged” by the XBRL International. The acknowledgement information has been released on the official website of the XBRL International (http://www.xbrl.org/FRTaxonomies/). All the technical documents of the taxonomy have been published on the SSE website of http://xbrl-cn.org to [...]