Updated XBRL-Based Financial Report Ontology Prototype

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 01:30PM
Charlie in Becoming an XBRL Master Craftsman, Digital Financial Reporting

Yesterday I posted this.  I adjusted this creating the following significant updates.

1. I added presentation relations for everything.
2. I created one schema which combines everything together, see "All Combined" below.
3. I changed the cycles attribute on the arcroles I am providing from "none" to "undirected". I was getting some cycle errors; the cycles are OK where I have them.
4. I updated the Financial Report Ontology a bit, adjusting and adding some things.

Here are the most current versions: (If you are not technical but interested in this, you want this HTML.)

• All combined: XSD | HTML | XML
• Financial Report Ontology (fro): XSD | HTML | XML
• Topics: XSD
• Disclosures: XSD
• Key ratios: XSD
• Fundamental accounting concepts (fac): XSD
• Fundamental accounting concept rules (XBRL Calculations): XSD
• Fundamental accounting concept rules (XBRL Formula): XBRL Formula
• Map US GAAP XBRL Taxonomy to fundamental accounting concepts: XBRL Definitions
• Arcroles (which provide semantics): XSD

What I want to do next is decouple the schemas and linkbases, making this more modular.  I have documentation and references for a lot of stuff, want to provide that and references.

Most of this information is in a Microsoft Access database. All the XBRL is generated via software, no XBRL taxonomy editor necessary.

Article originally appeared on XBRL-based structured digital financial reporting (http://xbrl.squarespace.com/).