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, 2011 - May 7, 2011

Deep Dive into XBRL, Progression

In 1998 I created a prototypeof what was to become XBRL.  Since that time I have created more XML using my favorite application as I say, Microsoft Notepad (actually I prefer Ultra Edit), than I actually care to think about.  I still have a copy of that prototype.

There probably will not be many takers, but for those who like details, here is a deep dive into XBRL. I took the summary pages I worked with and organized them in one spot to make them easier to find. Here is that list:

  • Really Early Stuff (2000 to 2005). 2005-12-31
  • Early Stuff. 2007-01-01
  • XBRLS Era. 2008-04-15
  • Differences Between XBRL, RDF, XML, iXBRL, XHTML. 2010-01-15
  • Business Reporting Logical Model. 2010-08-01
  • Business Reporting Logical Model applied to SEC XBRL Financial Filings. 2010-09-30
  • Semantic Model on top of Business Reporting Logical Model. 2011-04-11

The end result of all this is summarized in the document Understanding SEC XBRL Financial Filings. There are two other summaries.  The FRUX book and XBRL for Dummies.

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