Short introduction to XBRL

Short introduction to XBRL; A Guide to Getting Gtarted in XBRL for Operating Companies.  Note that BOWNE is acquired by RR Donnelley.

EDGAR Online and R.R. Donnelley have collaborated to educate and inform anyone interested in learning more about XBRL. The site, TryXBRL.com, provides access to whitepapers, case studies and compliance timelines as well as analysis of XBRL-tagged financial reports for over 12,000 U.S. companies.

White paper on SEC Filings, XBRL and Annual Reports - This white paper outlining the challenges associated with filing external reports with the SEC, including new complexities created by XBRL

The IFRS Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit private sector organisation working in the public interest. Its principal objectives are:

• to develop a single set of high quality, understandable, enforceable and globally accepted international financial reporting standards (IFRSs) through its standard-setting body, the IASB;
• to promote the use and rigorous application of those standards;
• to take account of the financial reporting needs of emerging economies and small and medium-sized entities (SMEs); and
• to bring about convergence of national accounting standards and IFRSs to high quality solutions.

This is the website for SEC's portal of information for XBRL. The page provides information about creating and submitting XBRL-tagged "interactive data files" in compliance with the SEC rules.

 Freely available XBRL viewer for US GAAP Data.

This Vendor website contains introductions to both XBRL and SBR.  The following introductory information is provided:

What is XBRL?

What is SBR?

XML Position Paper for Tax Administrations

Reducing the burden of compliance through standardization

Red Tape Reduction Commission's Efforts Timely

Why Do We Need SBR in Canada?

This introduction provides a very balanced and concise overview of the XBRL world, which consists of four sections, i.e. General Background, XBRL Taxonomies, Other Uses of XBRL, and XBRL Organizations.   This is a single web page of SAM Community Network.