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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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World Wide XBRL Projects and Demo

XBRL International made an Excel spreadsheet of informationavailable containing information about XBRL projects around the world.

I took the information in the Excel spreadsheet, loaded it into a Microsoft Access database, fixed some problems, and then generated some of this information in the form of XBRL. You can see that here.

On that web page you can get to that Excel file, two different ways of getting to the XBRL information (an XML pointer file and an RSS feed), some a printout I created which is easier to read than the Excel file, and an Excel file which you can use to extract information from the XBRL instances (and sample code to perform such an extraction).

I would love to see someone create a simple Ajax widget or something which can be used to read the RSS feed or the XML feed. Should be pretty simple.

In fact, this little database of project information has lots and lots of possibilities of showing the types of business information problems XBRL really solves. It also has the potential to demonstrate the differences between how information expressed using tuples (as is this information) and information using XBRL Dimensions would work.

Posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 at 08:03AM by

XBRL Projects Around the World

XBRL International has published an Excel spreadsheet which contains information about XBRL related projects around the world. That Excel spreadsheet can be found on this web page.

The spreadsheet has information such as the type of project, case studies, information about the projects, etc. There are about 120 projects listed in the spreadsheet.

Posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 07:46AM by

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