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eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) - an Update - IFAC

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What is <strong>XBRL</strong><br />

Freely available Supply Chain St<strong>an</strong>dard for <strong>Business</strong> Information Processes<br />

International Open Market Consortia with collaboration of over 650<br />

org<strong>an</strong>izations from 30 countries<br />

Enables st<strong>an</strong>dardization of:<br />

• Information elements (enables information exch<strong>an</strong>ge across disparate software)<br />

• Information definitions (enables sem<strong>an</strong>tic agreement, access <strong>an</strong>d reuse)<br />

• Labelling (enables association of multiple l<strong>an</strong>guages to individual elements<br />

across software)<br />

• Presentation concepts (enables presentation abstraction / templates)<br />

• Formulas / business rules (enables reusable <strong>an</strong>alytical models <strong>an</strong>d social<br />

collaboration)<br />

• Relationships between information elements <strong>an</strong>d other resources (enables<br />

explicit <strong>an</strong>d executable relationships)<br />

These st<strong>an</strong>dardization concepts are process centric <strong>an</strong>d move beyond the<br />

idea of a fixed data template<br />

Worldwide adoption summary

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