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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 February 2, 2014 - February 8, 2014

Great Video about Issues with Spreadsheets

This is a great YouTube video about issues with spreadsheets.

Posted on Friday, February 7, 2014 at 09:20AM by

Charlie in General Information |

Improved Information About Model Structure

I posted information about the different categories of report element which make up an SEC XBRL financial filing (network, table, axis, member, line items, concept, abstract). This page elaborates on that a little further and shows examples of these different categories of report elements.

I also added a graphic which shows these different report elements:

Click to view larger image

Posted on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 09:02AM by

Charlie in Becoming an XBRL Master Craftsman |

Updated Source Code and Application

I mentioned an application that I created in a prior blog post. I have made some significant updates to that application with the help of some others. This new version is worth checking out.

Video which shows the application. This video walks you through the updates to the application.
Source code. Updated source code you can download and edit in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (and I heard it worked in Visual Studio 10 also).
Run the application now. Click the link and then click on the "launch" link to run the application or the "Install" to install the application. (Requires Microsoft.Net Framework 4.5)
Metadata. I made significant updates to the metada which makes the application work. I still have some work to do to categorize the disclosures by topic in the application. I have most of the pieces put together, but I am still dinking around and figuring out how to best organize it.

Let me know what you think about the application. Have feature ideas or requests? Send them to me and I will see what I can do.

Posted on Monday, February 3, 2014 at 09:05PM by

Charlie in Becoming an XBRL Master Craftsman |