BLOG: Digital Financial Reporting
This is a blog for information relating to digital financial reporting. This blog is basically my "lab notebook" for experimenting and learning about XBRL-based digital financial reporting. This is my brain storming platform. This is where I think out loud (i.e. publicly) about digital financial reporting. This information is for innovators and early adopters who are ushering in a new era of accounting, reporting, auditing, and analysis in a digital environment.
Much of the information contained in this blog is synthasized, summarized, condensed, better organized and articulated in my book XBRL for Dummies and in the chapters of Intelligent XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
Entries from May 1, 2012 - May 31, 2012
Query Tool Prototype
This is a little taxonomy query tool prototype that I was fiddling with. I created it in Excel. The query tool works against easy to use XML infosets, generated from 1480 SEC XBRL financial filing taxonomies.
Using the tool you can query across the set of 1480 filings to get: [Text Block]s used; [Table]s used; [Axis] used; or query on a specific concept such as 'us-gaap:Assets'. Clearly this is not a be-all, end-all solution to any specific problem, but it does show that you can create such queries. Also, it gives you an idea of how to use XPath to query an XML file.
Fiddle around with the VBA and if you come up with some interesting or useful query, let me know about it.
Charlie
in Demonstrations of Using XBRL
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