XBRL Primer

(PWC) - an XBRL Primer, with a full title of 'XBRL: An emerging electronic financial reporting language that empowers users' which consists of an article 'introducing and explaining the XBRL revolution in a simple but comprehensive way'. The primer was written by Mike Willis, Chairman of the XBRL Steeeing Committee for PWC, and was published in November 2000 (10 pages, PDF format).Read More

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