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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 December 6, 2020 - December 12, 2020

Free Open Source Tool for Creating Quality XBRL-based Digital Financial Reports

I have created and provided for free and open source (i.e. Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication) a software tool for creating XBRL taxonomies, XBRL linkbases including XBRL Formula, and XBRL instances including RAW XBRL and Inline XBRL. The software application was created using Microsoft Access and can be downloaded here.

You can understand what the tool does and learn how to use it from the gentle introduction to creating XBRL-based financial reports.

To give you an idea of the tool's capabilities, it was used to create this Inline XBRL based financial report example that I use for testing. Here are all the files assocationed with that Proof PLUS example.

The biggest limitation is the GUI which is not that fancy yet because of my limited programming skills, but I hope to get that rectified soon.

Any software engineer that might be interested in converting this into Python, Microsoft.Net, or some other language of your choice please don't hesitate to contact me and I can help you make that happen.

Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 08:10AM by

Charlie in Digital Financial Reporting |

Accounting System Metadata

Here are examples of accounting system metadata: XERO, QuickBooks, hledger. Each accounting system has stuff like this, each accounting system tends to have many of the same things and then many different things in their metadata.

Posted on Monday, December 7, 2020 at 07:07AM by

Charlie in Digital Financial Reporting |