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This web site provides information on how to use XBRL to help business professionals exchange business information. Business information incluldes both financial and nonfinancial information. Everything on this site made available to all under a Creative Commons License, Public Domain Dedication. Everything may be reused however one sees fit without attribution. We do ask that you give credit where credit is due. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, suggestions, ideas or other feedback, please contact charles.hoffman@me.com.

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Harvard Business Review: Why Technologists Should Think Like Biologists

In his Harvard Business Review article, Why Technologists Should Think Like Biologists, Samuel Arbesman points out that one way they learn about a system is by examining when that thing goes wrong. That is one way that I learned about XBRL-based digital financial reports. By looking at basic, fundamental accounting concept relations that were not working as I would have expected.

This short article is worth reading.

Posted on Monday, July 25, 2016 at 03:33PM by

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