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Association for Accountant and Financial Professionals
This web site provides an overview of XBRL from the perspective of the Accounting Profession. This website also provides links to various other sources.
Bank of Japan Case Study
Financial services companies in Japan have been reporting monthly data in XBRL to the Bank of Japan (BoJ) since February 2006. The BOJ says the introduction of XBRL for monthly balance sheet information has led to a significant reduction in the burden of data validation and other gains in efficiency. It plans to expand the scope of XBRL reporting and to develop new systems for storing and accessing its XBRL data. This is a four-page document in double-sided PDF format, the XII's standard Case Study format.
Bank of Spain Case Study
More than 400 banks are filing monthly financial statements in XBRL to the Bank of Spain, which is responsible for overseeing the country's banking system. The introduction of XBRL for this reporting has enabled automatic data validation, achieved better quality of data and reducing manual effort. The Bank of Spain is now pushing ahead plans for expanded use of XBRL. This is a four-page document in double-sided PDF format, the XII's standard Case Study format.
Better Business Information through XBRL
The case for XBRL: benefits for companies, investors and exchanges. Paper by Nasdaq, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Bill would mandate using XBRL to track TARP money
A House bill would require to the government to track where its money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) goes by using technology that many companies already use to monitor their financial reporting.
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Breathing New Life into Old Systems
Case study of the use of the General Ledger taxonomy by the company Wacoal to transform its financial data reporting. Article published in Strategic Finance magazine. Copyright Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). Permission must be sought from the IMA for any further distribution.
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Breathing New Life into Old Systems with XBRL Global Ledger
THE WACOAL CORPORATION (Wacoal), an apparel manufacturer and marketer located in Kyoto, Japan,
recently faced a classic problem—the need to significantly improve the quality of financial data available to
key decision makers. They had little time or resources to make wholesale changes. Facing intense economic pressure,Wacoal began to look to theirvinformation technology system for answers. They ultimately turned to a radically new
technology—XBRL-GL. It was the world’s first installation of its kind. We’ll first tell you about the company and its IT systems, the options they considered to provide better data, and then why they chose the technology they did.
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Business case for using XBRL in tax filing
The benefits from using XBRL for filing of tax returns, taking UK corporation as an example. Paper by Walter Hamscher.
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