SEC Filers' Choice Scorecard: Instance Preparation Tools

Not that anyone is keep score; but a good way to see US market adoption of XBRL Instance Document Creation tools is to go to the source: the actual SEC Voluntary Filings themselves. With a little detective work, one can quickly tell which tool was most recently used by each of the files to create their 'exhibit 100s' or XBRL instance documents. As of November 19th, 2006 - the count was 32 individual companies had submitted using XBRL; some of them multiple times. For this graph, we've counted the tool used in the most recently submitted filing.  SEC Scorecard

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xbrlspy's blog - November 18, 2006 - 7:04pm

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