Financial Reporting Using XBRL

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This web site is under construction. It is intended to be a collaborative effort intended to help business users who wish to make use XBRL in financial reporting. The site provides resources useful for IFRS and US GAAP financial reporting using XBRL. If you have any comments, concerns, suggestions, ideas or other feedback, please contact Charles.Hoffman@UBmatrix.com.

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XBRL Formulas

A long time coming, XBRL Formulas is about to make its way to RECOMMENDATION staus with XBRL International. (And by the way, hats off to the really, really smart people on the Formulas Working Group who created this handywork!) This page summarizes information to help you get started using XBRL Formulas. Right now, the focus is the semi-technical business user who wants to roll up their sleeves and figure this out.

Here are some resources for understanding XBRL Formulas:

Hitchhiker's Guide to Business Rules using XBRL Formulas - (Coming soon)
Herm Fischer's Tutorial on XBRL Formulas - This is for PWD3 which is not that much different than PWD4 or the final version. This is rather technical, but it is the best that exists at the moment.
Annotated Formula Samples - [Draft of 2008-03-27] Contains annotated sample XBRL Formulas, will help you walk through the the formulas.

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