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 24, 2016 - July 30, 2016

Harvard Business Review: Why Technologists Should Think Like Biologists

In his Harvard Business Review article, Why Technologists Should Think Like Biologists, Samuel Arbesman points out that one way they learn about a system is by examining when that thing goes wrong.  That is one way that I learned about XBRL-based digital financial reports.  By looking at basic, fundamental accounting concept relations that were not working as I would have expected.

This short article is worth reading.

Posted on Monday, July 25, 2016 at 03:33PM by Registered CommenterCharlie in | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint