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.

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SAP Publishes their Financials in XBRL, Using their Product

If you go to the SAP Investors Relations page (see the third line) you will see that they published their financials for 2009 in XBRL before being required to do so by the SEC.  What is even more interesting is they created their filing using their product, SAP BusinessObjects XBRL Publishing by UBmatrix.

(Recall that a few days ago I had mentioned that Oracle announced two new products for creating XBRL.)

In addition to the XBRL, SAP is also making available HTML versions of their financials on their web site which seem to have been rendered using the SEC open source XBRL rendering software.

Nice!