Edgar Online posted in his monthly newsletter a list of online resources where you can learn more about XBRL.

The objectives of the study are: (1) to provide an overview of the benefits and global development of XBRL and (2) to evaluate the extent of XBRL adoption following the implementation of the voluntary filing program.

Charles Hoffman released new site about practical use of XBRL. Site contain various types of sample documents which can be used for education and educational purposes.

Driving Your Company’s Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value” is a step-by-step book presenting a valuation-oriented methodology that helps companies maximize shareholder value. It offers clear, concise, and concrete methods for management to create and preserve value, complete with case study applications. In an easy-to-read format, it brings together the aspects of the Financial Accounting Standards Boards’ new performance measurements, the balanced scorecard, and the new guidelines on fraud detection and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).

Neal Hannon posted a excellent case study about using XBRL extensions for company purposes. The story is illustrated with the example of the company which can not find the proper element in the taxonomy for “Weighted Average Shares Outstanding”.

ZapNote: The Extensible Business Reporting Language is available for download now at Amazon.com. Sharing financial and business information within and external to a business is often a challenge. Preparing financial statements for filing, printing, or web display often means that this same information would need to be re-entered multiple times.

XBRL International has produced a number of case studies to describe how important organisations have made use of XBRL.  These studies explain the background to each XBRL project, the reasons for adopting XBRL, the main steps involved, key results, lessons learned and next steps.  They should be of interest to all those concerned with the practical [...]

What can put business reporting on the fast track, improve audits, integrate data across functional lines, improve transparency and enhance performance analyses? It’s XBRL, the new data standard for reporting business information. XBRL for Dummies shows you what XBRL is… how to use it… and why you should!

Rob Blake Senior Director of Interactive Services for Bowne & Co., Inc., has authored XBRL: the Dawn of the New EDGAR white paper. This white paper provides an overview and analysis of XBRL, the business reporting technology that signals the transformation of a significant portion of the corporate disclosure process in the ever-changing world of U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) compliance filing.