XBRL GL WG Outreach Webcast “Amazing Accounts” Now Available

“Amazing Accounts” , an outreach session hosted on March 30, 2011 by the XBRL Global Ledger Working Group is now available as a webcast  here. Learn about one of the most foundational structures of XBRL GL — the account structure — and understand its reporting representational power that covers not only accounting but much, much more. You will learn: What can be represented with the account structure, and how Other structures that parallel and supplement the account structure How the account structure in XBRL GL uniquely supports cross-GAAP...

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Implementing XBRL GL Webcast Now Available

The webcast of the latest XBRL GL Working Group outreach call “Implementing XBRL Global Ledger — Standardizing the Standardization Process” is now available for offline viewing in the webcasts page at the GaLaPaGoS website. You can also find the slides used in the presentation...

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XBRL Global Ledger Working Group Outreach: Implementing XBRL GL — Standardizing the Standardization Process

As I mentioned recently, the XBRL GL Working Group is promoting a discussion on a standardized, repeatable methodology for “deeply embedded” XBRL/XBRL GL implementations. As part of this effort we scheduled a webinar on February 3, 2011 at 21:00 UTC. Here is the announcement published in the XBRL-public Yahoo! Group. If you do not have access to that group but you are still interested in participating you can contact...

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XBRL and Red Tape Reduction Initiatives in Canada — SBR Webinar June 7, 2010

Following recent announcements by the Canadian Government on the formation of a Red Tape Reduction Commission to consider ways of reducing the cost of compliance for businesses, XBRL Canada will hold a webinar on June 7, 2010 at 4:00pm EDT on how XBRL and the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) model can help. The webinar includes a presentation by Paul Madden, Director of the SBR Program in Australia. See the press release here and the XBRL Canada website to register for the event. Paul’s presentations are very informative and pragmatic, and...

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XBRL GL WG Outreach Call: The New XBRL GL Public Draft — Webcast Now Available

The webcast of the December 10, 2009 XBRL GL Working Group outreach call is now available in GaLaPaGoS.  Eric E. Cohen (PricewaterhouseCoopers), Toshimitsu Suzuki (Fujitsu) and myself introduce the new Public Working Draft of the XBRL GL taxonomy, the new architecture designed to cater for labels in multiple languages and the newly added Japanese labels. A Last Call for Comments has now been issued for the Public Working Draft, and the comment period ends on January 31, 2010.  The purpose of this webcast is to provide an overview of the new...

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XBRL GL PLDPRC

Yesterday during the monthly — well OK, it is not monthly, it is periodic - XBRL GL Working Group outreach call I gave a presentation on one of the next big things in the implementation of XBRL for internal use: XBRL GL Profiles for Labels, Documentation, Presentation, Rules and Constraints, aka XBRL GL PLDPRC. XBRL GL PLDPRC is about leveraging XBRL GL as a generic, holistic standard while at the same time providing a standardized way to cater for local restrictions and usage conventions — in other words, about safely customizing XBRL GL...

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