Today the SEC made available a DRAFT version of the EDGAR Filer Manual that includes changes to Section 6, the Interactive Data (XBRL) section. Draft Version 14 is available for download here, and includes the following changes…

With most mandate Group 1 companies coming off their 12/31 10-K XBRL submission and already preparing for the 3/31 XBRL submission, the company’s extension taxonomy comes into focus a bit more than in the previous filing seasons.

Today the SEC announced updates to their XBRL Viewers. The updates to the rendering engine that drives their Viewers include…

Initially announced for this coming Wednesday, the SEC started off their week by announcing support for the 2009 US GAAP taxonomies two days ahead of schedule.

Given the visual enhancements made by the SEC in this new rendering engine, and given the SEC is kind enough to continue to make this code available in an open source format, we’ve now updated the Bowne Interactive XBRL Viewer to render all uploaded XBRL documents using this new rendering engine.

Today the SEC updated their official SEC EDGAR Standard Taxonomies page to announce forthcoming support for the US GAAP 2009 taxonomies.

Sounds like a complicated kid’s story, doesn’t it? Well, it kind of is…but this story has to do with XBRL viewers at the SEC instead of a weird mix of farm and forest animals.

[First paragraph updated as my original post was done while XBRL US was still getting their web site set up.]
Today XBRL US rolled out the long-awaited new US GAAP 2009 XBRL taxonomies.  The new taxonomies can be found here and are available for reviewing using their online taxonomy viewer.  From an initial glance, the same [...]

The SEC has published a list of XBRL “error” and “warning” messages that accompany the checking they’ll be doing on test and live-filed XBRL documents that are filed under the mandated program: SEC XBRL IDEA Errors and Warnings List.

Yesterday I was tipped off by a big West Coast tech company that felt the tracked changes identified by the SEC in the latest draft version of the EDGAR Manual that came out yesterday (available here) weren’t all they were tracked up to be…;o).