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 October 18, 2015 - October 24, 2015
Several Interesting Prototypes
I created several interesting prototypes. Check them out. If you have any feedback or ideas, please send me an email.
- Reporting styles for statement: Shows different reporting styles, lets you compare and contrast different reporting styles.
- Fundamental accounting concept relations 'graphs': (When I say graph, I don't mean like a 'chart'. What I mean how the term graph is used in mathematics.) This lets you see the graph of rules for each reporting style.
- Reporting styles for statements (alternative 2): This is similar to the first bullet above, but it is a different approach to showing the information.
- Each fundamental accounting concept relation: Lets you view each of the fundamental accounting concept relations. (I think I will redo this similar to the third bullet point, were you can select from a list.
- Improved disclosure viewer: Somewhat of a library of disclosures.
- Improved "report frame" or "reporting style" viewer: A "report frame" is a term I came up with to enable the differentiation in how economic entities report. You can think of a report fame as a "pallet" or "style" of reporting. Of the many things in a financial report, each can have alternative approaches to reporting those things.
- Improved fundamental accounting concept relations viewer: An improved approach to viewing the fundamental accounting concept relations.
Again, any feedback would be great. Always looking for ways to improve things.



