XBRL Blog Magazine

XBRL US is conducting an in-person training workshop to teach preparers how to create XBRL filings for submission to the SEC.  This hands-on session shows you how to use taxonomies, convert your primary financial statements and block tag your footnotes in XBRL format.

Where, When & How Much:

• New York City (The Westin New York at Times Square)
  Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  $695 for all-day workshop

• Los Angeles (TBD)
  Wednesday, March 11, 2009
  Price TBD - reserve a seat today

• New York City (TBD)
  Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  Price TBD - reserve a seat today

• San Francisco (TBD)
  Wednesday, September 16, 2009
  Price TBD - reserve a seat today

Who should attend? CFOs, Controllers, External Reporting Managers, and finance staff members who have direct responsibility for implementing SEC XBRL filing requirements.

What you will learn

• How to plan, scope, budget and identify resources to meet the expected SEC mandate
• How to create an XBRL-formatted financial statement, including footnotes

Workshop agenda

• Overview of XBRL
• The SEC rule proposal
• Planning considerations – filing requirements, timing, resources, software and services
• Building an instance document – step-by-step
  - Mapping financial statements to taxonomies
  - Creating taxonomy extensions
  - Tagging financial statements
  - Validation
  - Filing XBRL-formatted documents

Requirements: Attendees will be required to bring their own laptops for use during the workshop. Attendees will need to install software applications prior to the workshop – software will be made available online for downloading.

All attendees will leave the workshop with a completed XBRL-formatted financial statement and a repeatable step-by-step guide.  Preparers can register for the workshop at http://xbrl.us/events/Pages/training.aspx.

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