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Implementing XBRL in Your Organization: A Hands-On Introduction

 
Course: 989   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Leverage XBRL technology for enhanced business and financial reporting
  • Identify facts to be reported with a taxonomy concept file
  • Define relationships between concepts with taxonomy relationship files
  • Create business report instance documents
  • Render XBRL documents as HTML or Excel formats
  • Design new and custom taxonomies by extending an existing taxonomy

Course Benefits

XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based, open standard language for the electronic communication of business and financial data. XBRL is becoming a standard for recording, storing and transmitting financial information due to its potential to deliver major cost savings, gains in efficiency and process improvements. In this course, you learn to implement XBRL in your organization for streamlined business and financial reporting.

Who Should Attend

Anyone wanting to gain more knowledge about XBRL, including IT professionals, accounting personnel, and financial or business analysts. Experience with XML is helpful but not required.

Hands-On Training

Throughout this course, you gain extensive hands-on experience with XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). Practical exercises include:
  • Creating a financial report in XBRL
  • Developing a taxonomy
  • Validating and sending XBRL reports
  • Generating XBRL reports from existing sources
  • Mapping traditional reports to XBRL taxonomies
  • Rendering XBRL as HTML and Excel
  • Extending a taxonomy

Related Courses

 
XBRL is a registered trademark of XBRL International, Inc. 		 

Upcoming Dates

Jan 14 - 16, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jan 21 - 23, 2009
 Los Angeles
Feb 4 - 6, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Feb 18 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Mar 18 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Mar 25 - 27, 2009
 New York
Apr 22 - 24, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
May 13 - 15, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
May 20 - 22, 2009
 Los Angeles
May 27 - 29, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jun 24 - 26, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Jun 29 - Jul 1, 2009
 New York
Aug 5 - 7, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)

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Implementing XBRL in Your Organization: A Hands-On Introduction

 
Course: 989   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 989 Content
 

Introduction to XBRL

Purpose, goals and objectives

  • Standardizing electronic reporting
  • Moving from document-centric to data-centric financial reports
  • Tagging financial information with metadata
  • Enabling interoperability and dynamic comparison of financial data
  • Taxonomies and instance documents

XBRL in the real world

  • Surveying the legal and regulatory landscape
  • XBRL jurisdictions
  • Leveraging available taxonomies
  • Eliminating the ability to obscure business reporting

Establishing a Foundation for XBRL

Identifying the XML document structure

  • Working with XML documents
  • Elements
  • Attributes
  • Differentiating between well-formed and valid documents

XML design and data mapping

  • Eliminating document ambiguity with namespaces
  • Encapsulating business rules in XML schemas
  • Validating documents with XML schemas
  • Creating links between resources with XLink

Applying Standard Taxonomies

Components of a taxonomy

  • Defining the concepts of a business report
  • Specifying relationships between reported information
  • Attaching metadata to values

Utilizing the taxonomy document structure

  • Employing XML schemas
  • Defining data to be reported with elements
  • Classifying relationships between data
  • Illustrating business rules

Taking advantage of defined taxonomies

  • Investigating taxonomies defined by XBRL jurisdictions
  • Identifying regulatory and industry requirements
  • Leveraging published reports in your business sector
  • Easily navigating taxonomies with viewers

Building Instance Documents

Working with interactive data

  • Creating an instance of a taxonomy
  • Encapsulating business data
  • Defining numeric and non-numeric contexts
  • Specifying attributes for contexts
  • Representing complex values with tuples

Validating with taxonomy documents

  • Performing XML schema validation
  • Implementing XBRL relationship validation

Generating Financial Reports in XBRL

Reporting process guidelines

  • Identifying the team
  • Assessing the scope of reporting
  • Mapping traditional reports to taxonomies
  • Validating instance documents
  • Publishing reports

Creating XBRL reports from existing sources

  • Tagging data with a common list of taxonomies
  • Reviewing XBRL-enabled tools for creating instance documents

Analyzing and Rendering XBRL

Improving financial analysis

  • Performing research with XBRL
  • Enabling near real-time analysis of company information
  • Dynamic comparisons of companies across business sectors
  • Sharing information between different systems
  • Simplifying summary analysis of data submitted to regulators

Rendering XBRL reports

  • Generating visual reports
  • Displaying instance documents as HTML Web pages
  • Importing taxonomies into Excel

Creating Custom Taxonomies

Identifying limitations

  • When existing taxonomies fall short
  • Leveraging the extensibility of XBRL

Extending existing taxonomies

  • Building upon jurisdictional taxonomies
  • Defining a namespace for a new taxonomy
 
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Implementing XBRL in Your Organization: A Hands-On Introduction Tuition

 
Course: 989   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

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