XBRL

SEC Preps Company Data Downloads

The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun a pilot program to make financial data reported by companies available via the SEC's website for download and analysis by investors and academics.

AxiomSL Expands XBRL-Related Capabilities

To meet new reporting requirements related to the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), AxiomSL has enhanced its out-of-the-box XBRL reporting solution to include taxonomy management and tweaked it to be more of a submission platform, rather…

XBRL's Fatca Benefits

The US foreign tax law creates a high volume and complexity of data needed for compliance. Frederic Chapus, of shareholder documents and communications company RR Donnelley, calls Belgium’s use of the XBRL standard a useful example of what to do

XBRL Begins to Catch on in Japan

Tokyo markets are sorting out accounting issues and other limits encountered by the data format, with an eye toward compatibility with international reporting standards