Mr. Dejan Gostimir graduated and earned his Master of Science degree at Faculty Of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia with the thesis titled: ”XBRL as possible standard of financial reporting in the Republic of Croatia”. He was member of the board at ORKIS Ltd., project leader and editor in chief of the accounting and financial web portal ORKIS.hr that was the first project of this kind in Croatia. ORKIS.hr is still number one financial and accounting web portal in Croatia. He has more than thirteen years of experiences in accounting, finance and management. He has attended training for the certificate of certified accountant. He is a regular columnist of ORKIS.hr portal on the subject of XBRL, management, finance and accounting. Currently he is working as a CFO in pharma industry and He is a guest lecturer on the Zagreb School Of Economics and Management on the subject of XBRL.

Some time ago I wrote about my concerns that there were not enough XBRL experts. That generated some interesting discussion, and led to one of the questions that I put to David Blaszkowsky, Director of the SECs Office of Interactive Data (OID). In a wide ranging conversation, more of which will be included in other posts, we talked specifically about the issue. As this conversation carried on from the previous, readers should accept that the standard disclaimer is still in place.

Earlier last week I had the pleasure of spending some time (over the phone) with David Blaszkowsky, Director of the SEC’s Office of Interactive Disclosure. We covered a number of issues, too much in fact to put into a single article, so there will be more from David over the coming weeks.

The Office of Interactive Disclosure (OID) carries the heavy responsibility of implementing the SEC’s Interactive Data rules for GAAP for public companies, for mutual funds and for ratings (links and names), and in the minds of many observers of XBRL’s progress around the world, holds the key to demonstrating the real value for XBRL for public financial reporting generally…

Patrick Quinlan is the President of Rivet Software, a Denver, Colorado-based company that is pioneering the future of global financial communications. Patrick comes to Rivet as a business executive with a proven track record of startup development, funding strategies, and capital investment success. He brings experience in the small and emerging business space and is skilled in executing strategic planning, performing market analysis, and guiding new product development. As the CEO of several successful startups and as a consultant, Patrick has helped many companies build and manage effective sales teams, meet revenue goals, and achieve peak performance. He graduated from the University of Kansas and holds an MBA from Regis University.

We had the pleasure of interviewing the CEO of XBRL International Inc. (XII) Mr. Tony Fragnyto. The topic of our conversation was the process of adoption of XBRL around the world and impact of that process on different aspects of business reporting.

In their most recent product release, Altova added support for working with XBRL across multiple tools in the Altova MissionKit tool suite to give organizations tackling XBRL compliance an affordable, easy-to-use solution for automating the way their financial data is captured, shared, reported, and analyzed.

The 19th XBRL International Conference: “Reducing Reporting Burden with XBRL: A Catalyst for Better Regulation” is produced by XBRL International, Inc. and is hosted by XBRL France in cooperation with XBRL Europe. The conference will offer a unique opportunity to interact with and hear from key vendors, the XBRL leadership and various government regulators discussing XBRL solutions, projects and implementations of XBRL to provide greater regulatory transparency.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it would require 500 largest U.S. companies to file their financial statements using an interactive format by April 13 in a move aimed at bringing more transparency to U.S. capital markets.

You may have already noticed that XBRL Blog Magazine has gone through a significant visual change. Since we are beginning a new year we thought we would kick things off with a new site design.