When reporting financials in XBRL, companies need to take responsibility by documenting the reasons items are tagged the way they are and allocating ample time for management review—even if they ...

Learn how XBRL enhances financial data sharing globally, utilizing XML for standardized accounting information exchange crucial for investors and businesses.

Quarterly and annual SEC reports now have machine-readable tags which let investors import the data into Excel spreadsheets and other tools to analyze and compare company financials. Called XBRL ...

XBRL is reinventing how we transmit and use data in business. XBRL is not just for SEC companies: Small businesses and practitioners alike could soon be using XBRL to submit information to bankers, ...

Extensible Business Reporting Language is starting to become more widely used, thanks to the SEC’s rules requiring the use of XBRL in financial filings in recent years and a new rule requiring XBRL ...

Energy companies will soon start reporting quarterly and annual financial and operational data in XBRL® format to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The XBRL format isn’t new for public ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued an advisory Friday about how filers are using the wrong XBRL tags for reporting their finance lease liability and future payments. Staff members in the ...

The big federal push to make publicly traded companies file financial statements using XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is running into surprisingly stiff resistance. While almost no one ...