Attendees of this hands-on seminar will work with their own financial statements and notes to learn how to tag data for creating interactive filings for submission to the SEC.

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).

Bowne Interactive XBRL Viewer First Solution to Test Data Against Stringent SEC Filing Criteria.

Bowne’s XBRL Solutions: Ready to Help You Prepare for the SEC Mandate – A webcast on XBRL and preparing for the SEC Mandate. The webcast will discuss the final rules regarding the XBRL mandate effective June 15, 2009.

With all the holiday egg nog finally starting to dissipate, I reflect back on the mandate craziness that happened during the last part of December. Much of the attention of course was focused on the meeting on December 17th but equally as important were two events that harken back to the mid-80′s and the onset of the two-phase commit in the database world.

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.