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 in Google Spreadsheets (1)

Test of Google Forms

This is a test of Google Forms and Google Spreadsheets.  The following is a Google Form which is embedded in this blog post.  You can enter data into this form.  After you submit the data, it goes into a Google Spreadsheet.  Every time someone submits something, another line goes into the Google Spreadsheet.  (Note that below you can go look at the spreadsheet.)

 

This is a link to the Google Spreadsheet:

To view the spreadsheet after you entered your results, click here.

Notice that your data is in the spreadsheet as well as data from others.  This is pretty simple (a flat file basically, not a relational database) but still quite useful.  Note that you can create different submission controls to manage data integrity to a degree.  Be nice if the Google Spreadsheet would also be made available in XBRL so that you could automate the process of reading the spreadsheet data.  Right now, you have to open the spreadsheet and look at the information to use it.

Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 08:17AM by Registered CommenterCharlie in , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint