This document describes the architecture of financial reporting taxonomies using the eXtensible Business Reporting Language [XBRL]. The recommended architecture establishes rules and conventions that assist in comprehension, usage and performance among different financial reporting taxonomies. “Financial reporting” encompasses disclosures derived from authoritative financial reporting standards and/or applicable generally accepted accounting practice/principles, regulatory reports whose subject matter is primarily financial position and performance including related explanatory disclosures, and data sets used in the collection of financial statistics; it excludes transaction- or journal-level reporting, reports that primarily consist of narrative (for example, internal controls assessments) and non-financial quantitative reports (for example, air pollution measurements). This document assumes use of the XBRL 2.1 Specification.
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