by CoreFiling | Nov 14, 2012 | Inline XBRL, Uncategorized
If you ask the majority of accountants what effect the second year of iXBRL tagging has had on their business, I imagine that most would respond that it’s still taking an inordinate amount of time and effort and that there’s no appreciable difference from the first...
by CoreFiling | Nov 13, 2012 | Interactive Data, Uncategorized, XBRL, XBRL Tech
In my previous post, I looked at how a lack of clear best practice around the naming of concepts and elements has contributed to the confusion around sign conventions in XBRL. I believe that another contributing factor is that the sign conventions used in financial...
by CoreFiling | Nov 1, 2012 | Interactive Data, Uncategorized, XBRL, XBRL Tech
In my previous article, I demonstrated a simple technique for getting the correct sign when tagging a number in XBRL. You may have noticed that I was somewhat casual with the notion of concepts having a “name”. If you’re familiar with the details of XBRL, you’ll...
