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Explanatory Note |
Summary Information
This is the home page of the US
GAAP - Commercial and Industrial Taxonomy. Below is summary information for
this taxonomy:
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Final |
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XBRL version |
XBRL Specification 2.1 dated 2003-12-31 |
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Release type |
Approved |
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Date issued |
2005-02-28 (28 February 2005) |
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Issued by |
XBRL-US |
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Description |
This financial reporting taxonomy is intended to provide element relationships that will allow commercial and industrial-type companies that conform to US GAAP to tag financial statements in XBRL. |
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Namespace identifier |
http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ci/2005-02-28 |
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Recommended namespace prefix |
us-gaap-ci |
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Relationship to other XBRL taxonomies |
This taxonomy imports key elements of the United States (US) Financial Reporting (FR) Taxonomy Framework in order to create an industry-level taxonomy for commercial and industrial entities. Click here to view a graphical representation of how this taxonomy fits into the US Financial Reporting Taxonomy Framework |
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Physical location of taxonomy components |
http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ci/2005-02-28/us-gaap-ci-2005-02-28.xsd (Schema) http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ci/2005-02-28/us-gaap-ci-2005-02-28-presentation.xml (Presentation linkbase) http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ci/2005-02-28/us-gaap-ci-2005-02-28-calculation.xml (Calculation linkbase) |
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Explanatory notes |
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Printout of taxonomy
elements |
Elements Listed by Label PDF, HTML Elements Listed by Name HTML
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Sample instance
documents |
Note and Disclaimer: These XBRL documents are presented solely as theoretical examples of XBRL application and should not be used or relied upon for any other purpose. XBRL-US makes no representation as to their accuracy or completeness, nor that they fairly represent the financial disclosure(s) of any financial reporting entity, public or private. Further, neither XBRL-US nor its members have audited, reviewed, compiled or performed any other professional service in regard to the XBRL documents referenced below, nor in regard to any electronic document from which such current document was prepared, nor any schemas, linkbases or other meta data included therein or to which they refer. We offer no opinion about the correctness, completeness, timeliness, accuracy nor any other characteristic of this XBRL document, documents from which it was prepared, nor any schemas, linkbases, or other meta data to which they refer. Users should find the original document, if such document exists, and read all disclaimers or opinions therein. |
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All DTS files |
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Contact |
Brad Homer |
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Incompatible
taxonomies |
There are no taxonomies that are inherently incompatible with the taxonomies of the USFRTF. |
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Defined roles |
http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/StatementFinancialPosition Statement of Financial Position http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/IncomeStatement Income Statement http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/CashFlowOperationsIndirect Cash Flow from Operations - Indirect Method http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/CashFlowOperationsDirect Cash Flow from Operations - Direct Method http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/StatementCashFlows Statement of Cash Flows http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/StatementStockholdersEquity Statement of Stockholders' Equity http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/TotalStockholdersEquityCalculation
Calculations for the Statement of http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/Notes Notes to the Financial Statements http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/AlternateCalculationRollUps1
Calculations which would otherwise conflict http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/lr/role/TupleContentModelsCommonTerms Tuple Content Models - Common Terms |
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Suggested linkbases |
None |
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Errors |
N/A |
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Copyright and License |
Copyright © 2005
XBRL-US® All Rights Reserved. This taxonomy and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that: 1. The above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works. 2. A link or URL to the original taxonomy is included in all such copies and derivative works. However, this taxonomy itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to XBRL International or other organizations, except as required to translate it into languages other than English. Members of XBRL International and the taxonomy owners agree to grant certain licenses under the XBRL International Intellectual Property Policy (www.xbrl.org/legal). The name and trademarks of XBRL International may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to this document or its contents without specific, written prior permission. Title to copyright in this document will at all times remain with copyright holders. By using and/or copying this taxonomy, you (the licensee) agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the terms and conditions set out in this document and in the Copyright, Intellectual Property and Trademarks documents on www.xbrl.org/legal This taxonomy and its associated files are provided on an "AS IS" basis and XBRL INTERNATIONAL AND THE OWNERS OF THE TAXONOMY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Recipients of this taxonomy are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights and copyrights of which they are aware and to provide supporting documentation. The attention of users of this taxonomy is directed to the possibility that its use may require use of an invention covered by patent rights. XBRL International and the owners of the taxonomy shall not be responsible for identifying patents for which a license may be required by this taxonomy, or for conducting legal inquiries into the legal validity or scope of those patents that are brought to its attention. This taxonomy is prospective and advisory only. Prospective users are responsible for protecting themselves against liability for infringement of patents. XBRL International and the owners of this taxonomy takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology defined by implied by the taxonomy or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; neither do they represent that they has made any effort to identify any such rights. Members of XBRL International agree to grant certain licenses under the XBRL International Intellectual Property Policy (www.xbrl.org/legal). |
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Warranty |
ALL PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED AS PART OF THIS TAXONOMY OR ITS ASSOCIATED FILES IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, AND THE PARTIES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR TITLE, OR ANY WARRANTY OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF ANY PROPOSAL, RECOMMENDATION, OR SAMPLE; OR ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE TAXONOMY OR ITS ASSOCIATED FILES WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. |
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Limitation of Liability |
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XBRL US Domain Working Group Chair:
Editors of the Taxonomy (listed alphabetically):
Rob Blake, Aucent
Glen Buter, CPA, BDO Siedman
Michael Eng CPA, Deloitte & Touche
Walter Hamscher, Standard Advantage
Charlie Hoffman, CPA, UBMatrix
Brad Homer, AICPA
Robert Lembach, CPA, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sal Mileti, CPA, Ernst & Young
Yossef Newman, CPA, Deloitte & Touche
Paul Penler, CPA, Ernst & Young
Miho Saito, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Brad Saegesser, Moody’s KMV
Matthew Slavin, Ernst & Young
Brian
Staples, Bank of
Abstract
This Taxonomy Documentation describes the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) US Financial Reporting Taxonomy: US GAAP Commercial & Industrial (US-GAAP-CI). The US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy has been prepared by the XBRL-US Domain Working Group, with feedback from other members of XBRL International as well.
This US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy is compliant with the XBRL 2.1 Specification, dated 2003-12-31 and follows the guidance prescribed in the Financial Reporting Taxonomy Architecture 1.0 (FRTA). It is a taxonomy created by combining other taxonomies in the US Financial Reporting Taxonomy Framework. Specifically, the US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy represents financial reporting detail ranging from the Management Report to the Balance Sheet and Income Statement used to create XBRL instance documents for commercial and industrial type companies.
This document assumes a general understanding of accounting and XBRL. If the reader desires additional information relating to XBRL, the XBRL International web site (http://www.xbrl.org) is recommended.
1. Overview
1.1. Purpose
The XBRL-US Domain Working Group is leading the development of this XBRL US GAAP Commercial and Industrial (US-GAAP-CI) Taxonomy for the purpose of expressing commercial and industrial-type financial statements according to US GAAP/FASB and other related/relevant accounting standards.
This US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy is designed to facilitate the creation of XBRL instance documents that reflect business and financial reporting for Commercial and Industrial companies according to the Financial Accounting Standards Board and other generally accepted accounting principles. The purpose of the US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy is to provide a framework for the consistent creation of XBRL documents for financial reporting purposes by private and public sector entities. The purpose of this and other taxonomies produced using XBRL is to supply a framework that will facilitate data exchange among software applications used by companies and individuals as well as other financial information stakeholders, such as lenders, investors, auditors, attorneys, and regulators.
The authority for this US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy is based upon US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The development of the taxonomy is based upon input from accounting firms, technology companies and other domain experts in the field of financial reporting. In addition, the specific content of the taxonomy is based upon standards identified by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and other related standards organizations.
The particular disclosures in this US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy model are:
1. Required by particular Commercial and Industrial Companies
2. Typically represented in AICPA model financial statements, checklists and guidance materials as provided from each of the major international accounting firms.
3. Found in common reporting practice, or
4. Flow logically from items 1-3, for example, sub-totals and totals.
1.2. Taxonomy Status
The US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy is an Approved Taxonomy. Its content and structure have been reviewed by both accounting and technical teams that comprise XBRL-US and XBRL International. The US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy complies with the Financial Reporting Taxonomy Architecture 1.0 (FRTA) and XBRL Specification Version 2.1.
The XBRL-US Domain Working Group intends to have this taxonomy reach the status of an approved taxonomy under the XBRL Taxonomy Approval Process (TAP) 2004. XBRL Taxonomies can exist in two states insofar as XBRL International TAP is concerned:
- Acknowledged – A royalty-free taxonomy that the creators have asked XBRL International to list at XBRL.org; XBRL International confirms only that the taxonomy is compliant with the XBRL specification and is available free of royalties. This classification indicates to the business user the degree of endorsement by XBRL International.
- Approved – A taxonomy which is technically compliant with XBRL, is available on royalty free terms, follows best practices prescribed by XBRL International (e.g. FRTA) and either has been developed by XBRL International itself or that has followed a public review process similar to XBRL International's own.
1.3. Scope of Taxonomy
This US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy is released in conjunction with the Accountants Report (USFR-AR), Management’s Discussion & Analysis (USFR-MDA), Primary Terms (USFR-PT), Financial Services Terms (USFR-FST), Management Report (USFR-MR), and SEC Officers Certification (USFR-SEC-CERT). Together, these taxonomies deliver the ability to report core financial statements, Notes to the Financial Statements, Accountants Report and other related content that certain private and public sector entities report, typically in annual, semi-annual or quarterly financial disclosures. These taxonomies are all part of the US Financial Reporting Taxonomy Framework, an XBRL taxonomy framework that enables reusability of components and provides the foundation for creating new industry taxonomies (such as Insurance, Banks and Savings Institutions, etc.) going forward.
Taken together, these taxonomies will meet the reporting needs of companies that meet three criteria, viz (i) they report under FASB standards, (ii) are in the broad category of “commercial and industrial” industries and (iii) have relatively common reporting elements in their financial statements. In practice, these three criteria are less likely to hold for all companies. Additional taxonomies are likely to be required. These taxonomies are likely to identify the particular needs of:
- Specific sub-industries, for example, pharmaceuticals or agribusiness.
- National jurisdictions for those companies that require a non-US GAAP standard as the core financial standards setting foundation and may include supplementary reporting requirements or prevent use of available options by local accounting standards setters as well as stock exchanges etc.
- National industry or common practice, for example, tax or credit reporting.
- An individual company
These extension taxonomies will either extend the US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy to meet the particular reporting requirements of that industry, country or company and/or restrict by limiting the use of particular US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy elements.
The inter-relationships of the various taxonomies are show in Figure 1:
Figure 1: Interrelationship of Taxonomies and Instance Document
2. Overview of Taxonomy
2.1. Taxonomy Development
The US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy has evolved over the last three years, through an iterative process of review and comparison against industry practice. In order to create the taxonomy the following techniques have been employed:
1 Comparison to disclosure checklists of the major accounting firms;
2 Comparison of companies listed in the Russell 3000;
3 Creation of instance documents using the US-GAAP-CI taxonomy;
4 Reconciliation to authoritative literature;
5 Review by various industry participants including the individuals listed in the "editors of the taxonomy"; and
6 Periods of Internal and Public review.
2.2. Taxonomy Structure
The US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy contains over 1,400 unique, individually identified pieces of information related to financial reporting. Most of these 1,400 elements are contained in the up-stream taxonomies and are “imported” or “included” in the US-GAAP-CI taxonomy. The XML Schema file at the heart of the US-GAAP-CI taxonomy provides a straightforward listing of the elements in the taxonomy. The US-GAAP-CI linkbases provide the other information necessary to interpret (e.g. Label and reference linkbases) taxonomy elements or place a given taxonomy element in context of other taxonomy elements (e.g. Calculation and Presentation linkbases).
The application of a metaphor assists in understanding taxonomies. The US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy is organized using a financial statement metaphor. This organization is used because it is understood by most accountants who use it to organize their audit working papers; to put the notes to the financial statements in order and in a variety of other uses. This metaphor is also familiar to the users of financial statements.
However, this metaphor and organization somewhat limits an understanding of the power behind an XBRL taxonomy. A taxonomy has multiple “dimensions”. Relationships can be expressed in terms of definitions, calculations, links to labels in one or more languages, links to one or more references, etc. The metaphor used expresses only one such relationship.
The US-GAAP-CI Taxonomy is divided logically into sections that correspond to typical US GAAP financial statement components. While there is no true concept of “sections” in the Taxonomy, their purpose is to group similar concepts together and facilitate navigation within the Taxonomy.
2.3. Label Languages
Currently, labels for taxonomy elements are provided in English. In the future, taxonomy labels could be expressed in additional languages as required.
2.4. References
This Taxonomy provides references to FASB and other relevant standards. Figure 3 shows an example of the reference elements are used in this taxonomy, using “FASB 142, sub paragraph 23” to illustrate how a reference is matched to these elements:
Figure 3: Reference Naming Structure
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FASB |
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142 |
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23 |
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Authoritative reference information used throughout the taxonomy relies on a series of acronyms. The following list provides an overview of the acronyms used commonly throughout the authoritative references:
- Accounting Research Bulletin (ARB)
- AICPA Opinion and Interpretation
- Industry Audit and Accounting Guide (AAG)
- Statement of Position (SOP)
- Practice Bulletin (PB)
- AICPA Accounting Interpretation (AIN)
- AICPA Accounting Principles Board Statement
- AICPA Issues Papers
- AICPA Technical Practice Aids (TPA)
FASB
- Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB)
- Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)
- FASB Interpretation (FIN)
- FASB Technical Bulletin (FTB)
- Emerging Issues Taskforce (EITF)
- Implementation Guide (Q&A)
- FASB Staff Position (FSP)
- Current Text (CT)
- Accounting Principles Board Statements (APS)
- FASB Financial Accounting Concepts (CON)
SEC
- Regulation S-X (SX)
- Article 9 (ART 9)
- Article 4 (ART 4)
- Regulation S-K (SK)
- Regulation S-B (SB)
- Regulation S-T (ST)
- Staff Accounting Bulletins (SAB)
- Regulation T (Reg T)
- Staff Position (SP)
- Financial Reporting Release (FRR)
- Staff Legal Bulletin (SLB)
- SEC Industry Guide
OTS
- Federal Regulation (FR)
3. Reviewing This Taxonomy
There are a number of approaches to reviewing the taxonomy both from an accounting and technical XBRL perspective. For more information on reviewing taxonomies, reviewers should read the Reviewer’s Guide to Financial Reporting Taxonomies 1.0 as published by XBRL-US.
4. Sample Instance Documents
Sample instance documents have been provided for each industry taxonomy, which may be useful in helping you understand how the taxonomy works and is intended to be used. If you are confused by something in the taxonomy, look for that information in the sample instance documents to see if the context helps explain the taxonomy content.
5. Updates and Changes
5.1. Updates to this Taxonomy
This taxonomy will be updated with revisions for errors and new features within the following guidelines:
· Since financial statements created using a taxonomy must be available indefinitely, the taxonomy must be available indefinitely. All updates will take the form of new versions of the taxonomy with a different date. For example, the taxonomy http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/us/fr/gaap/ci/us-gaap-ci-2005-02-28.xsd will never change. New versions will be issued under a different name, such as http://www.xbrl.org/taxonomy/us/fr/gaap/ci/us-gaap-ci-2008-12-31.xsd This will ensure that any taxonomy created will be available indefinitely.
- It is anticipated that this taxonomy will be updated as required to incorporate changes in generally accepted accounting principles and business reporting norms.
5.2. Comments and Feedback
Comments and feedback on either accounting concepts within the taxonomy or technical aspects of the US Financial Reporting Taxonomy Framework are welcome, particularly ideas to improve this taxonomy. If you have a comment or feedback or wish to report an error, email comments to Brad Homer (bhomer@aicpa.org).
Detailed responses will not be provided for every comment submitted, however a summary of which feedback has been incorporated will be provided.