XBRL Global Ledger Taxonomy Framework 2017

Public Working Draft 01 December 2016

Copyright © XBRL International Inc., All Rights Reserved.

This version:
<http://www.xbrl.org/Specification/gl-framework-2017/PWD-2016-12-01/gl-framework-2017-PWD-2016-12-01.html>

Status

Circulation of this Public Working Draft is unrestricted. This document is normative. Other documents may supersede this document. Recipients are invited to submit comments to gl@xbrl.org, and to submit notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are aware and provide supporting documentation.

Table of Contents

1 Summary Taxonomy Information
2 Editors of this Document
3 Technical Editors of the Taxonomy
4 XBRL GL Working Group - Voting members

Appendix


1 Summary Taxonomy Information

Purpose and Scope:

This taxonomy (a modular set) provides a standardized format for representing the data fields found in accounting and operation systems. The modular set consists of the following modules: COR (Core), BUS (advanced business concepts), MUC (concepts that represent multicurrency information), USK (concepts specific to the US, UK, and other Saxonic jurisdictions), TAF (concepts related to the tax audit file), SRCD (concepts that represent explicit mappings to XBRL taxonomies for financial reporting) and EHM (concepts related to inventory and fixed assets).

COR is the foundational module. It includes core data fields that are the base for the representation of all types of information with XBRL GL.

BUS augments COR with data fields found in accounting and operation systems that will allow organizations to track much more detail as part of every entry. This taxonomy represents inventory and business metrics, organizational detail and the Entity Information section, and other common items to supplement the resources, agents and events that represent the customer, vendor and employee related transactional detail.

MUC adds data fields found in accounting and operation systems that will allow organizations to track much more detail as part of every entry. This includes detail for the Entity Information section, additional sections necessary for other add-on modules, and information for business metrics/inventory tracking.

USK provides data fields found in accounting and operation systems that will allow organizations to tag journal entries, accounting master files, and historical status reports with additional information necessary for more sophisticated accounting needs common to Saxonic (US, UK, Australia, Canada, and other jurisdictions) in XBRL.

TAF adds data fields needed for tax and tax audit. The addition of these fields enables XBRL GL to be used by the international tax agencies and was developed with the input of groups such as the OECD SAF-T group and the OASIS Tax XML group.

SRCD provides data fields that facilitate the link between detailed data represented with XBRL GL and end reporting represented with XBRL taxonomies for financial reporting (XBRL) or other XML schemas.

EHM (Enhanced Measurable) module provides fields specific to the representation of inventory and fixed assets.

Each module can be seen as an extension to the Core module, but it is more worthwhile to look at the modules as parts of a whole, even though it is not essential to use all of them.

The structure of the taxonomies is such that a complete taxonomy is "compiled" by assembling a set of schemas via a "palette" schema (which is always in the file named gl-plt-2016-12-01.xsd). Since the content models of many elements vary depending on the combination of modules that are being used in any one application, the taxonomy schemas are separated into multiple physical files that are connected by means of <include> and <import> statements. There is one "general" schema (gl gen-2016-12-01.xsd) that is <import> ed by the others. Each module’s own schema is divided into two main parts - the element declarations (in gl- xxx-2016-12-01.xsd) and the content model declarations (in gl-xxx-content-2016-12-01.xsd - which <include> s gl- xxx-2016-12-01.xsd to form a complete schema) where "xxx" is the lowercase 3 character code for the relevant module.

The various combinations of modules that are delivered for this taxonomy are listed below. They are each located in a sub-folder of the "plt" folder that is a sibling folder of the various module folders (named "cor", "bus" etc.). The names of the pertinent subfolders are shown below.

COR (subfolder case-c)

COR and BUS (subfolder case-c-b)

COR and BUS and MUC (subfolder case-c-b-m)

COR and BUS and MUC and USK (subfolder case-c-b-m-u)

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and EHM (subfolder case-c-b-m-u-e)

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and EHM and TAF (subfolder case-c-b-m-u-e-t)

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and EHM and TAF and SRCD (subfolder case-c-b-m-u-e-t-s)

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and TAF (subfolder case-c-b-m-u-t)

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and TAF and SRCD (subfolder case-c-b-m-u-t-s)

COR and BUS and TAF (subfolder case-c-b-t)

COR and TAF (subfolder case-c-t)

For more detailed information see the accompanying document GLTFTA-REC-2015-03-25.html

Also included is the "ids" subfolder of the taxonomy, which contains sample instance documents to illustrate the use of XBRL GL to represent common business documents.

Relationship to Prior releases

This release is compliant with the XBRL 2.1, Specification dated 2003-12-31 plus errata corrections dated 2013-02-20.

XBRL GL Version 1.1 is compliant with XBRL Specification 2.0a; XBRL GL Version 1.0 is compliant with XBRL Specification 2.0; there is no intention for further development work on either of these prior releases of the XBRL GL taxonomy.

Owner(s)

XBRL International Inc

Date

2016-12-01

All XML files are dated 2016-12-01 as this is the date on which they became stable

Status XBRL International Public Working Draft
Approval Level XBRL International Public Working Draft
Specification version XBRL Specification Version 2.1, dated 2003-12-31 plus errata corrections dated 2013-02-20
Contacts

Gianluca Garbellotto, XBRL GL WG Chair (gl@xbrl.org)

Paul Warren, Director of Standards Development, XBRL International (pdw@xbrl.org)

Comments

The XBRL GL Working Group of XBRL International approved the request to release this Public Working Draft on 2016-12-01. This Public Working Draft builds on the "XBRL Global Ledger 2015" Recommendation published on 2015-03-25 and adds the new Enhanced Measurable (EHM) module. The new module and elements are described in the file "gl-ehm.docx" distributed with this document. Comments are to be sent to the XBRL GL working group (gl@xbrl.org).

Namespaces

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/gen/2016-12-01

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/cor/2016-12-01

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/bus/2016-12-01

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/muc/2016-12-01

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/usk/2016-12-01

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/taf/2016-12-01

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/srcd/2016-12-01

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/ehm/2016-12-01

Namespace prefixes

gl-gen

gl-cor

gl-bus

gl-muc

gl-usk

gl-taf

gl-srcd

gl-ehm

Linkbases

The modules of the XBRL Global Ledger Framework include schema (xsd) files, label linkbases, definition linkbases and presentation linkbases. They do not include reference or calculation linkbases.

Physical location of taxonomy files

(Palette and content model declarations)

Note: When referencing the taxonomy from an instance, the gl-plt-2016-12-01.xsd is the schema to be referenced

COR module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS and MUC module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m/gl-muc-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS and MUC and USK module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u/gl-muc-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u/gl-usk-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and EHM module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e/gl-muc-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e/gl-usk-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e/gl-taf-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and EHM and TAF module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t/gl-muc-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t/gl-usk-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t/gl-taf-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and EHM and TAF and SRCD module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t-s/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t-s/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t-s/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t-s/gl-muc-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t-s/gl-usk-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-e-t-s/gl-taf-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and TAF module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t/gl-muc-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t/gl-usk-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t/gl-taf-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS and MUC and USK and TAF and SRCD module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t-s/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t-s/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t-s/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t-s/gl-muc-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t-s/gl-usk-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-m-u-t-s/gl-taf-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and BUS and TAF module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-t/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-t/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-t/gl-bus-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-b-t/gl-taf-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

COR and TAF module:

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-t/gl-plt-all-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-t/gl-cor-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/plt/case-c-t/gl-taf-content-2016-12-01.xsd

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/gen/gl-gen-2016-12-01.xsd

Physical location of taxonomy files (element declarations and linkbases) (COR)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/cor/gl-cor-2016-12-01.xsd (Schemas)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/cor/lang/gl-cor-2016-12-01-label.xml (Labels linkbase - English)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/cor/lang/gl-cor-2016-12-01-label-ja.xml (Labels linkbase - Japanese)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/cor/gl-cor-2016-12-01-presentation.xml (Presentation linkbase)

Physical location of taxonomy files (element declarations and linkbases) (BUS)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/bus/gl-bus-2016-12-01.xsd (Schemas)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/bus/lang/gl-bus-2016-12-01-label.xml (Labels linkbase - English)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/bus/lang/gl-bus-2016-12-01-label-ja.xml (Labels linkbase - Japanese)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/bus/gl-bus-2016-12-01-presentation.xml (Presentation linkbase)

Physical location of taxonomy files (element declarations and linkbases) (MUC)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/muc/gl-muc-2016-12-01.xsd (Schemas)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/muc/lang/gl-muc-2016-12-01-label.xml (Labels linkbase - English)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/muc/lang/gl-muc-2016-12-01-label-ja.xml (Labels linkbase - Japanese)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/muc/gl-muc-2016-12-01-presentation.xml (Presentation linkbase)

Physical location of taxonomy files (element declarations and linkbases) (USK)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/usk/gl-usk-2016-12-01.xsd (Schemas)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/usk/lang/gl-usk-2016-12-01-label.xml (Labels linkbase - English)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/usk/lang/gl-usk-2016-12-01-label-ja.xml (Labels linkbase - Japanese)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/usk/gl-usk-2016-12-01-presentation.xml (Presentation linkbase)

Physical location of taxonomy files (element declarations and linkbases) (TAF)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/taf/gl-taf-2016-12-01.xsd (Schemas)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/taf/lang/gl-taf-2016-12-01-label.xml (Labels linkbase - English)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/taf/lang/gl-taf-2016-12-01-label-ja.xml (Labels linkbase - Japanese)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/taf/gl-taf-2016-12-01-presentation.xml (Presentation linkbase)

Physical location of taxonomy files (element declarations and linkbases) (SRCD)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/srcd/gl-srcd-2016-12-01.xsd (Schemas)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/srcd/lang/gl-srcd-2016-12-01-label.xml (Labels linkbase - English)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/srcd/lang/gl-srcd-2016-12-01-label-ja.xml (Labels linkbase - Japanese)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/srcd/gl-srcd-2016-12-01-presentation.xml (Presentation linkbase)

Physical location of taxonomy files (element declarations and linkbases) (EHM)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ehm/gl-ehm-2016-12-01.xsd (Schemas)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ehm/lang/gl-ehm-2016-12-01-label.xml (Labels linkbase - English)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ehm/lang/gl-ehm-2016-12-01-label-ja.xml (Labels linkbase - Japanese)

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ehm/gl-ehm-2016-12-01-presentation.xml (Presentation linkbase)

Physical location of sample instance documents

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/1-FR-Generic-simple-context.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/1-GL-Generic-simple-context.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/2-FR-Generic-tuple.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/2-GL-Generic-tuple.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/3-FR-Generic-tuple-dimension.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/3-GL-Generic-tuple-Dimension.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/BP_FixedAssetList.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/BP_TrialBalance.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/Customer_Invoices.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/Employee_Timesheets.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/Job-budget-v-actual.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/JournalEntry_Annotated_Book-Tax.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/JournalEntry_Annotated_Instance.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/Vendor_Invoices.xml

http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/int/gl/2016-12-01/ids/Vendor_Invoices_Normalized.xml

Summary documents

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/2016-12-01/gl-framework-2017-PWD-2016-12-01.html (this document)

Taxonomy Technical Architecture document

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/2015-03-25/GLTFTA-REC-2015-03-25.html (normative)

GL Instance Standards document

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/2007-04-17/GLIS-REC-2007-04-17.rtf (normative)

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/2007-04-17/GLIS-REC-2007-04-17.htm (non-normative)

Zip files

http://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/2016-12-01/XBRL-GL-PWD-2016-12-01.zip

(zip file containing taxonomy and documentation)

Relation to Other XBRL Taxonomies:

This modular taxonomy consists of a series of modules that extend the basic identifiers for entries, agents, and resources to meet the needs of specific jurisdictions, industries and need. It enables data from the general ledger and transaction journals of an organisation to be transported to XBRL financial reports.

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2 Editors of this Document

3 Technical Editors of the Taxonomy

4 XBRL GL Working Group - Voting members