More Taxonomy Component Reports Added
Friday, December 14, 2007 at 08:23AM
Charlie in General Information

I have added additional reports which show, in human readable form, the components of the US GAAP Taxonomy.  See the same place as the other reports.  Added per entry point for Banking and Savings; Other Industries such as extractive industries, health care, etc; and SEC specific disclosures.

Based on feedback from others received thus far, Excel seems to be the preferred format.  This makes sense as then it is easy to do pretty much what you want.  If there is anyone who cannot live with Excel please let me know and creating a PDF is as easy as printing the Excel to PDF.

By doing this what I am noticing is that there will likely be a lot of different entry points people might like.  The extremes are:

During a little instance document creation symposium people who were not familar could not figure out exactly where to start.  Business users are certainly not going to roam around the subdirectories trying to find the pieces which they need to use.  Hopefully software developers will create useful wizards which ask the user questions such as "are you a corporation or a partnership" and "what industry are you in" and "do you use a direct or indirect method of reporting your cash flows", and then create the entry point neede by the user.

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