The Accountant's Guide to XBRL 8th edition

The Accountants Guide to XBRL is an introduction to the eXtensible Business Reporting Markup Language. It is a non-technical introduction to a technical topic. XBRL is an emerging technology designed to standardize computerized business and financial reporting by specifying a set of rules, standard tags representing financial reporting concepts, and a standard format for XBRL documents. By reading this book and completing the exercises you will learn: The rules for all XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents The basics of the Universal Business Language (UBL) The basics of XBRL documents and the US GAAP and IFRS taxonomies The basics of the XSLT language to transform and analyze XBRL documents The basics of SEC filing packages, extension taxonomies, iXBRL, the AICPA Audit Data Standards, and the Corporate Actions taxonomy