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In case you missed it - Lexology (registration)

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In case you missed it
Lexology (registration)
The SEC recently updated its XBRL FAQs, here, with answers to such age-old questions as “How do I force a row that is entirely nil-valued facts to render? ...

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Laura Sturaitis Promoted to Business Wire's Executive Vice President, Media ... - Benzinga

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Laura Sturaitis Promoted to Business Wire's Executive Vice President, Media ...
Benzinga
Business Wire also handles XBRL tagging, document formatting and regulatory filing into the EDGAR and SEDAR systems. Communications professionals turn to ...

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Laura Sturaitis Promoted to Business Wire's Executive Vice President, Media ... - Earthtimes (press release)

Google News - XBRL - 7 hours 13 min ago

Earthtimes (press release)

Laura Sturaitis Promoted to Business Wire's Executive Vice President, Media ...
Earthtimes (press release)
Business Wire also handles XBRL tagging, document formatting and regulatory filing into the EDGAR and SEDAR systems. Communications professionals turn to ...

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iXBRL - please don't try this at home... - AccountingWEB.co.uk

Google News - XBRL - 13 hours 12 min ago

iXBRL - please don't try this at home...
AccountingWEB.co.uk
Simon Hurst downloads HMRC's XBRL taxonomy to see if Excel can cope... Practice automation and Excel expert Simon Hurst is one of those who has been ...

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Profile: Eric Anstee - Accountancy Age

Google News - XBRL - March 10, 2010 - 10:44pm

Profile: Eric Anstee
Accountancy Age
And the catalyst for change might come from an unusual source – the introduction of XBRL technology to tag data so it can be compared with other companies' ...

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Demystifying XBRL (UK-2)

XBRL Blog Magazine - March 10, 2010 - 12:49pm
A useful quick summary of What you need to know about XBRL from a UK tax filing perspective can be found on AccountingWeb. A key point is that if you are able to submit a ‘Short Company Tax Return’ via the HMRC’s online portal as a PDF file, then all the necessary conversion to XBRL will be done for you by HMRC’s web application.

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Rolling the K to the Q: Extension Taxonomy Impact

XBRL Blog Magazine - March 10, 2010 - 10:23am
With most mandate Group 1 companies coming off their 12/31 10-K XBRL submission and already preparing for the 3/31 XBRL submission, the company's extension taxonomy comes into focus a bit more than in the previous filing seasons.

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SEC Adds New XBRL FAQs - Compliance Week (subscription) (blog)

Google News - XBRL - March 10, 2010 - 6:56am

SEC Adds New XBRL FAQs
Compliance Week (subscription) (blog)
As a reminder, the Commission has slated a March 23 public seminar to help companies and preparers comply with the XBRL reporting rules. ...

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XBRL Canada Welcomes the Announcement of the Red Tape Reduction Commission - Canada NewsWire (press release)

Google News - XBRL - March 10, 2010 - 6:04am

XBRL Canada Welcomes the Announcement of the Red Tape Reduction Commission
Canada NewsWire (press release)
Leveraging the efficiencies of a unified system employing XBRL could save considerable dollars. It is important to note that XBRL is an open standard ...

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XII’s choice: Change or continue to muddle along

XBRL Blog Magazine - March 9, 2010 - 5:21am
XBRL International (XII) is a standards organization currently funded by a membership model, with revenue coming from the jurisdictions and conferences. This was a fine model when the XBRL standard was young and large accounting firms and the AICPA saw the benefits from being generous with their support. Conferences were seen as a moneymaker for XBRL International, and funding was adequate to support a startup standard. XII goals were clearly definable, and "easy" to achieve, which also...

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My Fortune.com Piece: California Sunshine for Shadow Banking

XBRL Blog Magazine - March 9, 2010 - 2:06am
New Fortune.com managing editor (and ‘95 Medill grad) Daniel Roth (@danroth) gave me a chance the other day to write a guest column on transparency and financial recovery and XBRL. It’s now here.

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Interview with Mr. Dejan Gostimir

XBRL Blog Magazine - March 8, 2010 - 12:13pm
Mr. Dejan Gostimir graduated and earned his Master of Science degree at Faculty Of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia with the thesis titled: ”XBRL as possible standard of financial reporting in the Republic of Croatia”. He was member of the board at ORKIS Ltd., project leader and editor in chief of the accounting and financial web portal ORKIS.hr that was the first project of this kind in Croatia. ORKIS.hr is still number one financial and accounting web portal in...

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Mr. Sato Does XBRL

XBRL Blog Magazine - March 8, 2010 - 11:44am
The Japanese Institute of CPAs has produced a sweet cartoon explaining XBRL for newbies like Mr. Sato. This introduction makes a number of useful points, especially about the differences between HTML (rendering data) and XBRL (contextualizing data) and the potential for XBRL-tagged report data to improve analyst productivity and facilitate the automated auditing of data and translation of data labels between jurisdictions.

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SEC reporting update - Lexology (registration)

Google News - XBRL - March 8, 2010 - 9:38am

SEC reporting update
Lexology (registration)
V. Mandatory XBRL and New Check Box on Cover Page of Form 10-K As a result of rule changes issued by the SEC on January 30, 2009, most public companies will ...

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An easy fix for a tricky securities problem - CNN

Google News - XBRL - March 8, 2010 - 3:05am

An easy fix for a tricky securities problem
CNN
The challenge of limiting modern financial analysis to the two dimensions of paper is one reason XBRL has become standard building practice, ...
An easy fix for a tricky securities problemCNNMoney.com

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XBRL : a matching challenge towards simplification - EurActiv

Google News - XBRL - March 8, 2010 - 2:47am

XBRL : a matching challenge towards simplification
EurActiv
Too few finance professionals have sufficient knowledge of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) – a tool designed for the digital communication and ...

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Trintech Group PLC F4Q10 (Qtr End 01/31/10) Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha (blog)

Google News - XBRL - March 5, 2010 - 6:48pm

Trintech Group PLC F4Q10 (Qtr End 01/31/10) Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha (blog)
We recently announced our new financial reporting Unity XFR solution with embedded support for XBRL. As global accounting standards like US GAAP and IFRS ...

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SEC Updates XBRL Viewers

XBRL Blog Magazine - March 5, 2010 - 1:41pm
Today the SEC announced updates to their XBRL Viewers. The updates to the rendering engine that drives their Viewers include...

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Gemalto and ViVOtech Speak Out on Mobile - SYS-CON Media (press release)

Google News - XBRL - March 5, 2010 - 9:31am

Gemalto and ViVOtech Speak Out on Mobile
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Business Wire also handles XBRL tagging, document formatting and regulatory filing into EDGAR, SEDAR, FSA and other systems. Founded in 1961, Business Wire ...

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Transparency by Stakeholder Engagement

XBRL Blog Magazine - March 5, 2010 - 8:41am
This brief lesson in corporate transparency Author’s Choice: Don’t Ignore the Transparency Imperative advocates that transparency is not just about presenting accurate, accessible and comparable information (e.g. using globally adopted standards such as XBRL) it is also about establishing a new level of engagement with the stakeholders of an organization.

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Diane Mueller is the founder of XBRLSpy Research Inc. She is an XBRL Evangelist, and a XBRL Implementation Strategist. Currently serves on the XBRL International Steering Committee and Best Practices Board, and chairs the Technical Working Group on Rendering responsible for the Inline XBRL Specification. She is a frequent commentator and lecturer on Financial Compliance, XML Standards and Semantic Web technologies. Read more..

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