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Taking the Ledger to the Next Level. Blockchain Explained

By Dave Nitchman on January 22, 2016

Earlier this week the BBC4 radio program “Today” hosted UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Mark Walport to talk about “blockchain” the emerging technology behind Bitcoin and other “distributed ledgers”. Also the technology behind Smart Contracts, these resemble traditional ledgers in that they track property or financial information, with the key differences being that they live […]

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xBRL-JSON: making XBRL easier

By Paul Warren on January 21, 2016

This week we published the first public working draft of the XBRL Open Information Model (OIM). The OIM is a syntax-independent model of the content of an XBRL report, designed to make it easy to work with XBRL data in a variety of different formats, as well as providing simplification of some of the more arcane […]

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The BPB Bank Indonesia Case Study

By Dave Nitchman on January 15, 2016

XII’s Best Practices Board has published a new case study that outlines the business and technical considerations that went into Bank Indonesia’s assessment of XBRL as a reporting platform

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Developing Global Best Practices for Company Extensions

By Dave Nitchman on January 14, 2016

Announcing the “Entity Specific Disclosures Task Force” (ESDTF)

XII is forming a new task force to identify best practice for the handling of entity specific disclosures (ESDs) in XBRL including, but not limited to, the use of preparer extension taxonomies.

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A Look Ahead

By Dave Nitchman on December 18, 2015

Read a thank you to our many volunteers and learn more about our plans for 2016.

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XBRL US Pilot Program Targets Surety Industry

By Dave Nitchman on December 11, 2015

Can XBRL have a positive impact on costs and efficiency in the global USD $13.6B surety industry? Attend the upcoming XBRL US webinar to find out.

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Canada gets a push on SBR

By Dave Nitchman on December 10, 2015

XBRL Canada shared an update on their recent seminar held in conjunction with The Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada). The day-long event in Ottawa educated stakeholders in that country on the benefits of Standard Business Reporting, with presentations from local and international speakers. The seminar was attended by some 50 people, mostly from the […]

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SBR in Australia by the Numbers

By Dave Nitchman on December 7, 2015

The ATO recently published its annual report for 2014-2015, chronicling some impressive growth for the SBR program in the areas of taxation, business registration and pension reporting.

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Update from the Reserve Bank of India

By Dave Nitchman on November 29, 2015

Read about some of the benefits the Reserve Bank of India has seen from XBRL, along with future plans for the standard.

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XBRL Empowering the Business Person in Brazil

By Dave Nitchman on November 20, 2015

Bruno Simoes from the Brazil National Treasury gives an overview of the XBRL project there and details how using XBRL is improving government reporting though enhanced data transparency and accuracy.

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