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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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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.

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Why Can't Searching and Using Financial Information Work Like This?

Here are some great examples of searching and using information. Why can't searching for and using financial information be more like this:

Finding a diamond: Nice interface for finding a diamond. (Recall that Valentine's day is coming up!)
Google Squared: A different way to search. Try this search of "Fortune 100 Companies".
WolframAlpha: They call this a conceptual knowledge engine.
TrueKnowledge.com: Imagine being able to ask questions such as "Give me a list of all the countries in the Airlines Industry around the world. This web site isn't great, but it points out possibilities.
Yahoo Pipes: Interesting interface for building queries. What if you could query the SEC database like this. Try running some of the sample queries, or be bold and venture to build your own query.
OpenAnalytics: This is just a sample, but imagine the possibilities of this interface. Try one of the sample companies.
15 Stunning Data Visualizations: This is truly stunning.
Bubble Charts: Hans Rosling analysis of data using bubble charts. This is a 16 minute video, well worth watching.
FDIC Bank Database: This isn't bad, wish the made the data available in XBRL so you could query it from Excel.

One day!

Posted on Monday, February 8, 2010 at 03:48PM by