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John Turner of XBRL vendor CoreFiling said yesterday: “So now the hard work really begins.”

The credit crunch will strike squarely at fund companies’ back offices, and will force systemic changes in the way they operate in 2009 and beyond, according to Confluence, the global investment management industry’s leading provider of automated data management solutions.

I’d like to introduce you a social network dedicated to XBRL standard - XBRL Network. As the founder of this network Miles P. Jennings, Jr. says “Although the network is small, I think there are many of the key leaders in the field are members. I started the XBRLNetwork as a way to make [...]

It was published a new page on the site “XBRL Glossary” where you can find explanations of the most important terms related to the XBRL standard. For now it is explained only a basic set of terms that will be expanded during the time.
If you have a proposal which term would be good to be [...]

Is it possible that XBRL enabled search technology increases the transparency of company financial disclosures? In my opinion, certainly it does. Whether it is publicly traded companies or privately held companies, people who are charge of management know that most investors and analysts pay more attention to information in the body of financial statements rather than lengthy footnotes [...]

In a nutshell, XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is the language of finance accounting. The goal of XBRL is to make the analysis and exchange of corporate information more reliable.
The importance of internal control in organizations has become even more visible after Sarbanes-Oxley.  Management is now more aware of weak areas of their internal control [...]

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This BLOG is devoted to XBRL - eXtensible Business Reporting Language. It is an XML dialect developed for business reporting purposes.
There are two key items that are fundamental to understanding XBRL. The first item is what is called a taxonomy. The second item is called an instance document. A taxonomy may refer [...]