Microsoft has submitted data to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) using a newly released taxonomy for a financial reporting language designed to make it easier to compare companies’ ...

XBRL, an XML-based protocol used to tag specific data fields and values within financial statements to aid extraction and comparison of like-for-like data between companies, could be used to assign ...

NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters) - Coded versions of U.S. accounting rules used to digitally tag financial data have been finalized and delivered to regulators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, ...

This month the JofA begins a series of articles exploring how XBRL can help CPAs, their clients and employers, financial institutions, regulators, rating agencies and individual and institutional ...

Remarks made at the 11th XBRL International Conference, Boston, April 2005, on CPAs transforming business reporting. To assess XBRLs effectiveness as a data-tagging technology that can help public ...

Like any government mandate, the SEC’s requirement to use XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) in public companies’ financial reports cannot be ignored. However, along with the government ...

What is a telltale sign that a subject has arrived? One is the availability of a "For Dummies" book, those ubiquitous tomes with the black and yellow cover. Apparently, that time has come for ...