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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.

Entries from July 17, 2011 - July 23, 2011

PrimeAim

PrimeAim is a demonstration of using XBRL information. Here is a sample query. This is worth checking out.

Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 05:33PM by

Charlie in Demonstrations of Using XBRL |

An Integrator's Guide to Inline XBRL

An Integrator's Guide to Inline XBRL is a helpful resource for learning about and working with Inline XBRL. Included with this tutorial is a sample 10-K for Massive Dynamic company.

Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 05:28PM by

Charlie in Modeling Business Information Using XBRL |

Two Data Modeling Resources from OpenFiling

The folks at OpenFilinghave made a couple of very useful resources available for those who are serious about learning how to model business information using XBRL.

The first is a video which shows, in detail, an approach used by FINREP to modeling information. The video titled FINREP 2012 taxonomy and the Data Modeler - ExcelXbrlGen (Excel add in) is 1 hour and 26 minutes long, but there are some good nuggets of information. It is worth the time for those who are serious.

The second is the Excel add in discussed in the video, Data Modeler: ExcelXbrlGen (Excel add in). The Excel add in appears to be written in .Net, is open source, and is described as follows:

Developed in order to facilitate creation of taxonomies according to the draft Eurofiling architecture out of the Data Points Model (DPM) in MS Excel format automatic creation of primary items, dimensions, domains (structures of members) taxonomies consisting of schema files and linkbases (label and definition) out of the Excel DPM interface for definition and output of tables linkbase (according to Eurofiling draft rendering schema and algorithms)

While you may not need to create taxonomies according to the Eurofiling architecture, this is a great reverse-engineering opportunity and it helps you see an approach used by others in working with XBRL.

Posted on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 06:32AM by

Charlie in Modeling Business Information Using XBRL |