XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based standard for financial information, reporting and analysis that has been jointly developed by over 170 leading companies and organisations around the world.

Innovation is a key issue in business today. However, the most profit and efficiency are gained by improving existing processes. Processes are no longer limited to the boundaries of one organization, but can increasingly be extended to surrounding environments. The financial supply chain is an example of one such process. It has existed for years, and many steps have been taken to improve its efficiency.

XML is the 21st Century industry data/metadata interchange format of choice, vital to the DoD’s interoperability strategy. Under the guidance of the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII COE) Chief Engineer has established a XML management framework and web based registry for DoD XML users.

This Taxonomy Documentation describes the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) US Financial Reporting Taxonomy: US GAAP Commercial & Industrial (US-GAAP-CI). The US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy has been prepared by the XBRL US Domain Working Group, with feedback from other members of XBRL International as well.

The enormous success that developed economies have had in raising standards of living has come, in part, from the efficient allocation of capital. Capital has been provided to the effective competitor on better terms than to the less effective. The investor knows the difference between more effective and less effective competitors because trustworthy, thorough and timely systems have evolved to distribute and evaluate corporate results.

Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading enterprise infrastructure and integration company, and Fujitsu Software Corporation (Fujitsu), a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace, today announced they signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a new partnership. Fujitsu will market Sybase’s Content Capture technology and offer it as a component of Fujitsu Interstage Portalworks, and Sybase will integrate Fujitsu’s Interstage XWand Developer XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) solution with PowerDesigner, Sybase’s all-in-one modeling and design tool and co-market the combined solution.

XBRL is a freely available electronic language for financial reporting. It is an XML-based framework that provides the financial community a standards-based method to prepare, publish in a variety of formats, reliably extract and automatically exchange financial statements of publicly held companies and the information they contain.

The FFIEC has begun an initiative directed toward improving Call Report data filing and publishing. Sheshunoff has assembled answers to the most frequently asked questions about how this affects you.

Business success requires measurement, analysis and communication of information found scattered throughout an organization and from outside sources. This business intelligence includes both traditional accounting and operational measures and new metrics found in ValueReporting. Until now, the tools to effectively capture, analyze and reuse this information have been limited, expensive, and difficult to implement. Now, there is XBRL GL.

NetCharts XBRL Server is a data visualization service that generates charts and graphs, tables, and reports. It can be used alone or in conjunction with any web infrastructure from the simplest CGI scripts to the most sophisticated Enterprise Application Server. A vulnerability in the product allows an attacker sending a malformed-chunked encoding request to cause the server to reveal sensitive information about itself.

The first specification for a business-reporting variant (XBRL) of extensible markup language (XML) was the subject of an April symposium. The XBRL project committee held the meeting to encourage comments on the specification and to announce its new name. Until then, it had been known as XFRML—for financial reporting.

A consortium of software, consulting and accounting firms hopes to recruit government financial managers as users of a new electronic publishing language that standardizes how agencies present financial reports. The international XBRL Project Committee (www.xbrl.org) has developed Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) as a standard way of tagging financial data so that it can be easily pulled into electronic financial statements, tax returns and World Wide Web pages. The standard should help lower the cost of producing those documents and facilitate the exchange of information among businesses and the government.

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XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a computer language for preparing Internet web pages in a way that communicates the complex financial information in corporate business reports to Internet users. XBRL makes the analysis and exchange of corporate financial information easier and more reliable.

Companies today are struggling to regain the confidence of the investment community and comply with the onslaught of new regulatory requirements. Financial markets are demanding a higher quality of timely financial information in an easy to interpret format. In a recently published technology forecast by PricewaterhouseCoopers, emerging trends in technology were identified that can assist companies in providing greater transparency and accountability.

The XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Committee announced last week that several new, leading companies and organizations have joined the XBRL initiative, including ACCPAC International, Dow Jones & Company, eLedger.com and PeopleSoft. XBRL Committee membership now exceeds 50 companies and organizations from around the world and is expanding globally as industry sectors and foreign jurisdictions begin development of XBRL specifications.

This documentation explains the XBRL Taxonomy Financial Reporting of Not-for-Profit Organizations, which is currently in draft form and still in development. This taxonomy is created compliant to the XBRL Specification, dated 2000-07-31. It is for the creation of XML-based instance documents that generate business and financial reporting for not-for-profit organizations according to SFAS 116 and SFAS 117.

XBRL International, a global consortium of over 200 leading accounting, technology and financial services companies and government agencies, announced today the Recommended Release of version 2.1 of its XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) technical specification. Enhanced functionality of version 2.1 will ease XBRL implementation by users of XBRL-enabled software and will improve the ability of application developers to create platform independent XBRL applications and tools.

PricewaterhouseCoopers' IFRS conversion solution is enriched with XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) to address the specific challenge of adapting current reporting systems and processes to IFRS more easily and efficiently, from transaction level through higher consolidation levels.

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers have embarked on a pilot programme to introduce the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard into delivery of investor information over the Internet.