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Business Definition for: XBRL
- Extensible Business Reporting Language: a computer language for financial reporting. It allows companies to publish, extract, and exchange financial information through the Internet and other electronic means.
Additional Resources
- Reviewing an XBRL GAAP Taxonomy
- As part of ensuring that an XBRL taxonomy captures GAAP appropriately this paper describes the two basic review techniques that are recommended by the authors. The reader needs to note that the review is driven by GAAP rather than XBRL and, accordingly, compliance review with the XBRL Specification is undertaken...
- White papers 2002-09-02
- XBRL in Taxation: The Business Case
- The move to electronic filing for corporate taxes has occurred, is in progress or will soon occur around the world: XBRL will be a key component of many of these electronic filing systems, bringing cost and process improvements to both filers and tax authorities. What are the key factors in...
- White papers 2002-12-07
- XBRL: Coming of Age?
- Even technologies that sound particularly appealing can take a long time to catch on if there's no mandate or urgency behind them. This paper focuses on Extensible Business Reporting Language XBRL. Since it emerged five years ago, XBRL has been touted for enhancing the Internet-based exchange of financial information, improving...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- XBRL: Financial Reporting for the New Millennium
- A new standard in financial reporting is poised to take the business world by storm. It will not only streamline how financial information is updated, but make it more readily available to those who need it. It is known as the extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL. XBRL is an...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- A Clearer Line of Communications for Telecommunications Reporting - XBRL Web Services: Real-Time Information for a Real-Time Business Environment
- This white paper describes how XBRL and Web services benefit telecoms by enabling them to: facilitate process change to increase internal and external reporting accuracy and efficiency using existing software, accelerate achievement of goals that systems architecture changes are designed to accomplish, leverage the Internet to meet increasing internal and...
- White papers 2004-04-27
- XBRL Web Services Enable Intelligent Business Reporting
- XBRL is poised to make business and financial markets more efficient by enabling organizations, analysts and investors to be better informed, and better able to manage financial data, while receiving more accessible and accurate information from regulators and companies. XBRL-enabled business and financial reporting allows greater access to global markets,...
- White papers 2004-10-06
- Improved Business Process Through XBRL: A Use Case for Business Reporting
- The purpose of this paper is to explore the high-level benefits XBRL delivers to business reporting, with particular attention to one portion of the overall supply chain - the banking regulatory reporting process and its key stakeholders: the regulatory agencies, the regulated entities/filers, data aggregators, software vendors, investors and other...
- White papers 2006-02-02
- XML Technology: A Standard for All to Understand
- The American Institute of CPAs brought together 12 accounting firms and technology vendors to develop and promote worldwide use of Extensible Business Reporting Language XBRL, an XML- based standard for business reporting that would make everything from public companies' regulatory reports to borrowers' financial statements accessible from any type of...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Straight Through Reporting With XBRL Web Services: How U.S. Government Agencies Can Achieve an Efficient Budgetary, Financial and Performance Reporting Environment
- This paper: describes the capabilities and benefits XBRL, with Web services standards, offers government agencies in terms of enhanced processing efficiency and communication of business information, discusses how existing E-Government initiatives leveraging Web services and XBRL's parent language, Extensible Markup Language XML, can be broadened to meet critical government reporting...
- White papers 2004-04-26
- More Effective Reporting for Insurance Companies and Their Stakeholders - The Developing Role of XML and XBRL
- The paper highlights that revolutionary development in information technology over the past decade and market pressures have increased the demands for companies to provide more relevant information on a more frequent and timely basis to all stakeholders. Given the data intensive nature of insurance companies, there are significant benefits to...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Corporate Communications for the 21st Century
- This white paper discusses the impact of Internet technologies on business reporting XBRL Extensible Business Reporting Language, a new Internet language for business reporting, provides significant benefits to producers and consumers of financial and non-financial information. The greater the degree of collaboration between all participants in this supply chain, including...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- SEC Filings To Get a Lot More Transparent
- It's fast, easy, and efficient. And you probably are going to have to use it, not to mention deal with the greater transparency it promises. CEOs and their staffs are likely to go through a major change in how they file their reports with the U.S. Securities...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
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