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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XBRL Instance Graphic

The following is a graphic of an XBRL instance which, I believe, helps people visualize the connection between the "tags" and a "printed" business report be it on paper, in PDF or HTML, etc.

XBRL Instance GraphicOne could go on, and on, and on with this; connecting the concept to the XBRL taxonomy, the taxonomy concept to resources and relations. Wouldn't it be great if software applications did this for you!  Would help visualizing the information, finding errors, etc.  Clearly you would not want to see the tags, but rather interfaces that show the information contained within the tags. 

 

Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 11:42AM by Registered CommenterCharlie in , | Comments1 Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint