Liv A. Watson

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The Next Technology RevolutionXML
XBRL

• Liv A. Watson
• Director Edgar Online, Inc
• XBRL Liaison Chair
• E-Mail Lwatson_at_Edgar-Online.com
• Phone [phone]

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• EDGAR Online, Inc. is
• the leading business-to-business and Web-based
  provider of business, financial and competitive
  information derived from U.S. Securities and
  Exchange Commission (SEC) data and a developer of
  Internet-based financial and business system
  solutions.

www.edgar-online.com www.freeedgar.com www.ipo-ex
press.com www.insidertrader.com www.fd.express.com

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The Leader in Financial Information

• NASDAQ EDGR Founded 1995
• Offices Norwalk, NYC, Seattle,
  Baltimore/Rockville
• Employees 120
• Channels Retail, Internet, Corporate Sales
• Worth Magazines 1 Online Research Site
• Financial Insights, Inc. (FIS) Acquisition
• Increases base of corporate customers
• High-end data and technology solutions in-house
• Expands product lines to EOLs corporate web
  based clients.

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Why Use EDGAR Online?

• EDGAR Focus
• SEC filings and data derived from them
• Internet Focus
• We serve only Internet, intranet, and extranet
  delivery systems
• Flexible Data Delivery Solutions
• A full suite of information products delivery
  options
• Prestigious Partners
• Other leading companies have recognized the value
  of our singular focus and solutions
• Market Leadership
• 75 Corporate clients, 250,000 Internet Clients
• First to Market with an XBRL Repository

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EOL Sells Public Company Information and
Internet-based Application Services
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Todays Objectives

• Overview of XML XBRL
• Show you how this technology makes doing
  E-Business
• Faster
• Cheaper
• Better
• XBRL Update
• Conclusion

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Find the best solution to connect the nine points
together with no more than four straight lines
without lifting your writing instrument.
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Whatassumptionsare you making?
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If you do not assume that you cannot extend your
lines beyond the imaginary square formed by the
box the puzzle becomes easier to solve.
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Everything that can be invented has been
invented. Charles H. Duell Commissioner of
U.S. Office of Patents,urging President William
McKinley to abolish his office, 1899
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Dont assume that the lines must pass through the
center of the dots.
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Dont assume that the line must be thin.
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Just to prove I can do it with two lines.
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Dont assume that the paper must be flat.
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If you rip the paper into nine segments, you can
stack them and poke your point through all at
once.
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Dont assume that you cannot crease the paper.
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Dont assume that the lines cannot extend beyond
the edge of the paper.
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Dont assume that you cannot rip the paper.
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Major Economic Changes
Source Cisco
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Is There A Problem?
From Evansville Courier and Press
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Lets move up the Value Chain
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Islands of Information
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Contentwithout Context
Searching for the word Mercury on the Web can
provide search results such as--
Hg
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Simple problem 4921 results in a typical
search (e.g. IBM Fixed Assets)
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The Problem

• Multiple Users with different vendor software
• e.g. MS Word, WordPerfect XML Editor

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Problem Example
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The Problem

• Many different data types e.g.
• Documents
• CAD
• Product Data
• EDI
• Spread Sheets
• Databases

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Result
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Evolution to Web Services
Program the Web
Browse the Web
Web Services
Web Pages
Text Files
Automation
FTP, E-Mail,Gopher
Presentation
Connectivity
TCP/IP
HTML
XML
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The Evolution of Internet Standards
New Standards Build on their Predecessors 1960
s Simple computer-to-computer interconnection 197
0s Email 1980s File exchange and sharing 1990s
Graphics and Hyperlinks gt the World Wide
Web 2000s Application standards
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XML

• XML stands for
• eXtensible
• Markup
• Language
• Universally accepted method of exchanging
  information

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XML eXtensible Markup Language

• XML - a computer markup language that is
  extensible (flexible can be added to)
• XML is actually a bare-bones set of syntax rules
  to markup any kind of text and data
• XML is used to supply the structure of the text
  or data
• XML is used to tell both a human computer
  software what the text or data is not how to
  display it

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The design goals for XML are

• XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the
  Internet.
• XML shall support a wide variety of applications.
  
• XML shall be compatible with SGML.
• It shall be easy to write programs which process
  XML documents.
• The number of optional features in XML is to be
  kept to the absolute minimum, ideally zero.
• XML documents should be human-legible and
  reasonably clear.
• The XML design should be prepared quickly.
• The design of XML shall be formal and concise.
• XML documents shall be easy to create.
• Terseness in XML markup is of minimal
  importance."
• - Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Specs, The
  Annotated Version.

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Why industry is taking XML seriously

• HTML provided a fantastic ability to publish
  images of information
• Static documents and data snapshots
• Intended for humans
• Firewalls enabled a robust infrastructure
• An undervalued component
• Allows industry to use the web
• But most systems remain proprietary and
  non-interoperable
• XML provides the remaining piece of the puzzle
• Microsoft, Oracle, SAP etc etc

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XML gives us...

• Separation of content from format (and behaviour)
• Information can be processed as well as presented
• Arbitrarily complex data structures
• Extensible information systems through the use of
  links
• Interoperability
• System-independent
• Easy to parse and transform
• Multiple ways to add meaning to the information
• Style sheets, schemas, namespaces, architectures
• Power in the Browser
• 'something for Java to do'

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XML

• eXtensible Markup Language
• Extensible that which can be extended
  (Webster)
• Markup language - a computer language of codes or
  tags (a.k.a. containers)
• ltfirstNamegtLivlt/firstNamegt

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XML Family Tree
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eXtensible Markup Language

• is a meta markup language the World Wide Web
  Consortium (W3C) considers a universal standard
  for describing both structured data and the
  behavior of applications that process the
  language.

XML
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What Is XML?

• XML is a
• platform-independent,
• self-describing,
• expandable,
• standard data exchange format

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XML is Platform Independent

• Windows
• Unix
• Macintosh
• Mainframe
• Linux
• DOS

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XML is Self-Describing

• Example
• ltDATEgtJuly 26, 1998lt/DATEgt
• Describes the information, not the presentation
• Format neutral

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XML is Expandable

• Whereas HTML has a fixed set of tags
• ltH1gt, ltBgt, ltIgt
• XML lets you create your own tags
• ltsugary-substancegt
• ltShakespearean-charactergt
• ltcash-equivalentgt

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How does it work?

• XML gives meaning to information through the use
  of tags

ltCustomergt ltNamegtLiv A. Watsonlt/Namegt
ltCompanygtEdgar Online Inc.lt/Companygt
ltTitlegtDirectorlt/Titlegt ltAgegt22lt/Agegtlt/Customer
gt
Caution.. Just because something is lttaggedgt..
Does not mean it is accurate?
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Enter XML

• ltperson ID"123" location"ny"gt
• ltfirst-namegtLivlt/namegt
• ltlast-namegtWatsonlt/last-namegt
• ltcommentsgtLiv is a good speaker but has an
  annoying habit of preparing her slides at the
  last minute.lt/commentsgt
• lt/persongt
• ltlocation ID"ny"gt
• ltnamegtNew York Officelt/namegt
• ltaddressgt945 West End Avenuelt/addressgt
• lt/locationgt

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XML

• Widely expected to reduce cost of publishing to
  the Net by as much as 50.
• And by next year

Gartner Group prediction
70 of all B2B transactions executed on the Web
will be done using XML.
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Why is XML so Important?

• Portable
• Vendor neutral
• Readable data format
• More flexible and easier to use than EDI
• All major software products are becoming XML
  enabled
• Defacto standards for data exchange
• Enabling new levels of interoperability

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XML is becoming the Web's Lingua Franca
Web Presentation (HTML)
Document Processing (SGML)
XML
Distributed Computing (CORBA, DCOM)
Information Exchange (STEP,CGM, etc.)
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XBRL and the Emergence of e-Standards

• E-Standards are fundamental
• HTML is the standard that enabled the webs first
  Big Step
• XML is the webs next Big Step
• Over 400 XML-Based Specifications and Protocols
  exist, including
• RosettaNet computer company supply chain and
  trading webs
• OBI - Open Buying on the Internet - retail
  e-commerce
• FpML - Financial Products (Derivatives, Swaps,
  FX)
• ACORD XML - Insurance industry information
  exchange standards derived from EDI.
• UN/CEFAC EBXML
• XBRL is uniquely focused on financial and
  business reporting

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Lesson Authoring XML Elements

• An XML element is made up of a start tag, an end
  tag, and data in between.
• ltdirectorOfxbrlgtLiv A. Watsonlt/directorOfxbrlgt
• ltStudentgtLiv A. Watsonlt/Studentgt

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Lesson Authoring XML Attributes

• An element can optionally contain one or more
  attributes. An attribute is a name-value pair
  separated by an equal sign ().
• ltCITY ZIP"01085"gtWestfieldlt/CITYgt

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• How many ways can we describe a book?

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Lesson Authoring XML Documents

• An XML Document is simply an XML element that
  can, but might not, include nested XML elements.
• For example, the XML ltbooksgt element is a valid
  XML document
• ltInventorygt
• ltbooksgt ltbook isbn"0345374827"gt
• lttitlegtXBRL Essentialslt/titlegt
• ltauthorgt Charlie Hoffman lt/authorgt
• ltauthorgt Carolyn Strand lt/authorgt
• lt/bookgt
• lt/booksgt
• lt/Inventorygt

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The design goals for XML are

• XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the
  Internet.
• XML shall support a wide variety of applications.
  
• XML shall be compatible with SGML.
• It shall be easy to write programs which process
  XML documents.
• The number of optional features in XML is to be
  kept to the absolute minimum, ideally zero.
• XML documents should be human-legible and
  reasonably clear.
• The XML design should be prepared quickly.
• The design of XML shall be formal and concise.
• XML documents shall be easy to create.
• Terseness in XML markup is of minimal
  importance."
• - Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Specs, The
  Annotated Version.

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Who defines the tags?

• Tags are defined by industry consortiums
• Each industrys standard tags are commonly
  referred to as a taxonomy

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Content in Context (Industry-specific)
Auto Industry
ltCAR-MODELgt
Chemical Industry
ltSYMBOLgt
Publishing or Mythology
ltGODgt
Music Industry
ltRECORD-LABELgt
Aerospace
ltPROGRAMgt
Astronomy
ltPLANETgt
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Defines Tags
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XBRL Working Model Planned Specifications
XBRL for G/L Journal Entry Reporting
XBRL for Financial Statements
XBRL for EDGAR Filings
External Financial Reporting
Business Operations
Internal Financial Reporting
Investment and Lending Analysis
Processes
XBRL for Tax Filings
XBRL for Business Event Reporting
Investors
Financial Publishers and Data Aggregators
Companies
Participants
Auditors
Trading Partners
Regulators
Management Accountants
Software Vendors
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Additionally

• Confirmed New Members (as of 15 November 2000)
• Deutche Bundesbank
• U.S. Department of Defense (DFAS)
• Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
• Nikkei (Nihon Keizai Shimbun)
• New River
• Practitioners Publishing Company
• National Center of Charitable Statistics
• Seattle Pacific University, Center for
  Professional Development
• Global Filings
• Business Wire
• Hong Kong Society of Accountants
• Innovision

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XBRL International is gaining strength

• XBRL activities occurring in
• United States
• Canada
• Australia
• China Hong Kong
• Japan
• Malaysia
• New Zealand
• Singapore
• Taiwan
• Germany
• India
• Ireland
• Netherlands
• Nordic Federation (Denmark, Norway, Sweden)
• Spain
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• And on a global level through the

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XBRL Impact

• "The explosive growth of the Internet is not only
  changing the way companies conduct their
  business,
• it also promises to forever alter the way they
  communicate business performance.
• - CFO Magazine, February 2000

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XBRL Documents

• XBRL for Financial Statements
• XBRL for General Ledger
• XBRL for Journal Entry Reporting
• XBRL for Credit Reporting
• XBRL for Performance Press Releases
• XBRL for Risk Reporting
• XBRL for Regulatory Filings
• XBRL for Tax Filings
• XBRL for Assurance Schedules
• XBRL for Authoritative Literature
• XBRL for Business Reporting

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XBRL Support

• I would like to see you develop valuation models
  that result in consistent, comparable and fair
  values of assets and liabilities. I would like to
  see you hone specific, but plain English
  definitions for the types of information you
  believe should be included in public disclosure.
  I would like to see you take your XBRL project a
  step further, providing account classifications
  for companies in common industries. In short, I
  challenge you to turn all of this data into
  meaningful information for investors.
• - Arthur Levitt, Chairman, U.S. Securities
  Exchange Commission
• October 24, 2000, at the Fall Council of the
  AICPA (Las Vegas, Nevada)

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• XML for Financial Reporting
• Enables a dramatic improvement in the processing
  of financial reports
• XBRL documents can be
• Prepared efficiently
• Exchanged reliably
• Published more easily
• Analyzed quickly
• Retrieved by investors simply to enable smarter
  investments

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Problems XBRL Addresses

• Ineffective communication to investors
• Inefficient aggregation and analysis
• Inefficient creation of financial statements

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Process BenefitsLowering Financial Reporting
Cost
Who benefits
Printed Financials

• Todays external reporting processes
• Rework and delay
• Ad hoc and non repeatable
• No path forward

Regulatory Filings
Web Site
Accounting System
Tax Return
Explanatory Text
Trade Filings
Third Party Information
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Process BenefitsLowering Financial Reporting
Cost
Who benefits
Printed Financials

• Common interchange format and storage is good
  information management practice
• Reduces redundancies discrepancies
• Repeatable processes using tools
• A platform for continuous reporting

Regulatory Filings
Web Site
Accounting System
Tax Return
Explanatory Text
Trade Filings
Third Party Information
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Any Electronic Data Interchange

• When different parties are willing to exchange
  well-defined administrative or commercial
  information by electronic means, they need to
  agree on
• the exact semantics of the messagesAvailable
  standards or new problem?
• a structured model of the informationThis is
  what matters from an IT point of view!
• a data formatWhich selection criteria?

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How XBRL Works
Improves the way companies -- and applications
-- share business reporting information
5. XBRL data can be used in applications B or
other comparable applications
3. XBRL information flows freely across the
Internet or VPN, LAN and WAN
1. XBRL Specific Data
Application - A
XML/XBRL translator
XML/XBRL translator
Application - B
Common XBRL Vocabulary
2. Application data is converted into a common
XBRL vocabulary
4. XBRL-tagged data is mapped into applications
specific data
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XBRL Schema - Speaking the same language
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Public XML Schema Repository

1. Company X publishes an XBRL Schema in a public
   repository
2. Company Z retrieves XBRL Schema from repository
   and generates XBRL
3. Company Z sends XBRL document to company X over
   shared communication link
4. Company X verifies correctness of received XBRL
   document by checking it against well-known schema

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XBRL not a Transaction Protocol
What it is

• XBRL is merely a format to serialize complex,
  structured financial data e.g., statements,
  G/Ls.
• Therefore, it cannot replace OFX, ebXML, ANSI
  X.12 Trans Set 821, OMG G/L Spec, ...
• Future message sets in those protocols could
  include XBRL tagged data if they need to send
  financial statements in the message body.
• XBRL provides a framework and an AICPA approved
  vocabulary that can be extended to many other
  reporting frameworks.

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XBRL not an accounting standard

• Means of communicating
• Current GAAP
• Current practice
• Flexible standard
• Future standards
• Future general practice

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XBRL Impact

• "Coming down the road are standards like XML and
  XBRL that take data handling a major step forward
  from HTML, the current web standard. With these
  new standards, plus those for accounting, it will
  be possible to scan a universe of corporate data
  across the web and extract, say, the chairman's
  report for all companies with a certain market
  cap, EBITDA, and gearing.

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XBRL A Fragment of a Raw Data

• Raw Data in Spreadsheet

Company Financial Statement Line Item Label Year Value
Coca Cola Co. Balance Sheet CurrentAssets.CashandCashEquivalents CurrentAssets.CashandCashEquivalents 1999 1611
Coca Cola Co. Balance Sheet CurrentAssets.CashandCashEquivalents CurrentAssets.CashandCashEquivalents 1998 1648

• Same Raw Data in XML (XBRL) Format

ltgroupgt ltgroup type"CurrentAssets.CashandCashEqui
valents"gt ltitem period"1999"gt1,611
lt/itemgt ltitem period"1998"gt1,648
lt/itemgt lt/groupgt
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Separating Presentation gt Data gt Logic
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Presentation
Data
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Presentation
Logic
Data
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Presentation
Logic
Data
Logic
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XBRL-GL

• Very new development to represent General Ledger
  transactions
• Joint venture with EDIFICAS
• Support
• Consolidations within large and small
  organizations
• Inter-organizational transactions

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XBRL-GL

• Explicitly designed not to require a Chart of
  Accounts
• Explicitly designed to incorporate
• Financial data
• Non-financial data

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XBRL in the Classroom
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Classroom Ideas

• A common language of business
• The foundation language for sharing financial
  information over a network (e-business)
• Better understanding the link between
  accounting IS
• Creating audit schedules
• Comparing financial information
• Sharing data between apps.

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XBRL and Research
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XBRL and Research

• Use and reuse of tagged-XBRL data
• VAS - Validation, Authority and Submission
• Assurance over XBRL statements
• Drivers of adoption of XBRL, WebTrust, SysTrust
  etc. etc.
• Trans-national analysis of financial statements
  etc. etc.

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Issues with XBRL
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But there are many issues ..

• How to handle financial data points within
  textual disclosures?
• Do need something approaching a fully normalized
  schema?
• Or a flat file?
• International compatibility?
• Language conversion?
• Handle national GAAPs?
• Ontologies?

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Ontologies?

• The task of classifying all the words of
  language, or what's the same thing, all the ideas
  that seek expression, is the most stupendous of
  logical tasks. Anybody but the most accomplished
  logician must break down in it utterly and even
  for the strongest man, it is the severest
  possible tax on the logical equipment and
  faculty.
• Charles Sanders Peirce, letter to editor B. E.
  Smith of the Century Dictio

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XBRL Issues Foundational Conflicts
Data centricXBRL disclosures
Document centrictraditional disclosures
?
?
?
Human usage
Data extraction
Print
Web
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And how to implement?

• How to get national buy-in?
• How to get corporations to adopt?
• Show me your business model!
• Role of information intermediaries?
• DowJones, Moodys, EdgarOnline, ASX etc.

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And ..

• Audit?
• Will be ..
• Role for new information intermediaries.
• XML specialists.

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On the Independent Audit

• The audit remains rooted in historical reviews
  while transactions are increasingly processed in
  a real-time manner.
• We believe real-time auditing is not only
  possible, but it is necessary for the independent
  audit to survive in the information age.
• - Emersons 2000 Big Five Annual Report, p. 14

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Importance of Reporting
What excites the CEO is the ability to know
what the business is doing at any given point in
time, react quickly to market shifts and
competitive threats and remain in tight control
while empowering employees to make informed
decisions more quickly.

John Chambers Cisco CEO
Year End Earnings Release Call August 10, 1999
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Best Practice
The Virtual Close has, in my opinion, just as
much impact on a companys future success or lack
thereof as the well-published e-commerce area.
John Chambers Cisco CEO
Year End Earnings Release Call August 10, 1999
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XBRL Impact

• If Europe moves quickly to take up these
  standards, it could give them an attractive lead
  in the race to accessible and comparative key
  data that would stimulate investor interest. It
  would undoubtedly spawn a plethora of research
  tools that would be useful to both private and
  professional investors.
• - Investors Chronicle, August 9, 2000

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XBRL Adds Reporting to E-Commerce
BUSINESS
Customers
Suppliers
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XBRL Adds Reporting to E-Commerce
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What is ebXML

• Electronic business XML - ebXML
• Joint effort of the United Nation/CEFACT and
  OASIS
• Create a Single Global XML Framework Solution
• 18 month project

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ebXML

• A global electronic market place where
  enterprises of any size, anywhere can
• Find each other electronically
• Conduct business through the exchange of XML
  based messages
• Using standard message structures
• According to standard business process sequences
• With clear business semantics
• According to standard or mutually agreed trading
  partner agreements
• Using off the shelf purchased business
  applications

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Main ebXML concepts

• Business Messages Expressed in XML
• Business Processes Defined in UML, Expressed in
  XML
• Business Service Interface Handles one role in
  a business process Expressed in XML
• Trading Partner Agreement Specifies protocols
  properties required for two specific business
  service interfaces to talk to each other
  Expressed in XML
• Tansport and Routing Layer Moves the actual XML
  data between business service interfaces

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Steps in Technology Acceptance
Acceptance
Simplification/Tools
Taxonomy
Visionaries
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Whos Embracing XML now?

• Software developersUsing XML as the core
  technology for new products
• Database developers Building XML support into
  their products.
• Industry groupsDeciding how information should
  be shared.
• Organizations Investigating how to tie their
  inter and intra company processes together.

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The Internet Changes Everything

• Preparers
• Get hold of your business and demonstrate your
  value.
• Auditors
• Keep audited financial reporting relevant.
• Intermediaries
• Play a role or get bypassed.
• Analysts
• Add value or lose value.
• Creditors
• Web-enable or lose customers.
• Investors
• Sort through the ocean of information to make
  good decisions

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The 21st Century Annual Report (ICAEW 1998)
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Who Benefits?
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Benefits to Today's Users

• 1. Reduce cost of analyzing and reporting
  financial information
• 2. Increase speed and efficiency of business
  decisions
• Enhance the distribution and access of existing
  financial statement information
• More readily exchanged
• Increase and enhance analysis

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Financial Institutionsand their Users

• SMALL BUSINESS provides FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
  with their information in XBRL and receives loan
  approval in less than a day instead of two
  daysor two weeks.

Average Time for Loan Processing1.75 days
Value-added Analysis and Decision-making?
90 time spent on Mechanics
With XBRL?
More Time for Analysis gt Better Analysis gt Less
Risk
Or
Mechanics
Analysis
Mechanics
Analysis
Mechanics
Analysis
Mechanics
Analysis
Process more loans in the same amount of time
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Benefits

• 1. Reduce cost of analyzing and reporting
  financial information
• 2. Increase the speed and efficiency of business
  decisions
• 3. Enhance the distribution and usability of
  existing financial statement information

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Example Cost Reduction

• International Subsidiaries
• Large multi-national corporation uses XBRL to
  quickly rollup, analyze and publish the
  financial statements of numerous subsidiaries
• in different countries
• with different languages
• using different GAAP
• on different computer systems

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Benefits

• 1. Reduce cost of analyzing and reporting
  financial information
• 2. Increase the speed and efficiency of business
  decisions
• 3. Enhance the distribution and usability of
  existing financial statement information

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Example Efficient Decisions

• Major mutual fund company feeds XBRL-ized
  information to customers to differentiate their
  funds as more objective and reliable investments
• An investor uses XBRL to compare the financials
  for a range of companies
• Belonging to different revenue levels
• Located within an industry sector
• Along multiple analytical criteria

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Benefits

• 1. Reduce cost of analyzing and reporting
  financial information
• 2. Increase the speed and efficiency of business
  decisions
• 3. Enhance the distribution and usability of
  existing financial statement information

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Example Credit

• Loan Approval
• Small Business provides Bank with their financial
  information in XBRL and receives loan approval in
  1 minute instead of 2 days
• Credit Approval
• Company approves customer credit request with
  automated assessment processes facilitated by
  XBRL
• Line of Credit
• Company provides capital markets with financial
  information in XBRL and receives expedited line
  of credit

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Service Opportunities
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Technology enables change
IS Consulting
Internal Control
FinancialApplications
PCs
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Technology enables change
????
Data Centric
New Reporting Systems
XBRLXML
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Progress

• Morgan Stanley filed a 10K EDGAR filings to the
  SEC with XBRL tags.
• All banks in Australia will report to the
  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority in
  XBRL this year, and all insurance companies next
  year.
• Tax pilots in the U.S. with the States of New
  York and California scheduled this summer and
  fall.
• University of Kansas XBRL Repository project 80
  financial statements

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Progress

• Membership Continues to grow
• XBRL Germany and XBRL Japan have formally
  launched chapters this month

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XBRL Germany Established

• AUDICON GmbH
• DATEV eG
• Deutsche Bank AG
• Deutsche Bundesbank
• Deutsches Rechnungslegungs Standard Committee
  e.V.
• Ernst Young Deutsche Allgemeine Treuhand
  Aktiengesellschaft

• Haarmann, Hemmelrath
• InnoData GmbH
• Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer
• KPMG Deutsche Treuhand AG
• MIS AG
• PPA Gesellschaft für Finanzanalyse und Benchmarks
  mbH
• PWC Deutsche Revision AG
• SAP AG
• Software AG

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XBRL Japan Established

• AsahiCo.
• Asia Securities Printing Co.,Ltd
• Beacon IT Inc.
• Century Ota Showa Co.
• Chuo Aoyama Audit Corporation
• Digital Notarization Authority
• DIVA Corporation
• Fujitsu Ltd.
• Hitachi System Services,Ltd.
• Hitachi, Ltd.

• Japan Information Service Industry Association
• Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
• Nikkei
• PCA Corporation
• Takara Printing Co., Ltd.
• Teikoku Databank, Ltd.
• The Japanese Institute of Certified Public
  Accountants
• Tohmatsu Co.
• Tokyo Shoko Research, Ltd.
• Toyo Keizai Inc.

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Progress

• The IASB is leading the development of XBRL for
  IAS a working version is expected by October.
• The Second International XBRL Meeting was held on
  June 11-15 in New Orleans, Louisiana, with more
  than 80 participants from more than 10 countries
  attending.
• The Third International XBRL Meeting will be held
  in Sydney, Australia during the month of October.
  A tentative date has been set for October 22
  25.

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Recent Announcements

• Released for public comment enhanced version of
  specification for XBRL for Financial Statements.
• harmonizes with the W3C XML Schema to better
  align with initiatives of the W3C and other XML
  organizations for global interoperability.
• Released for public comment XBRL for General
  Ledger

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XBRL in Print

• XBRL Essentials by Charles Hoffman, CPA and
  Carolyn Strand, CPA, Ph.D
• Introducing XBRL Decision Making in a Digital
  Economy by Neal Hannon and Zachary Coffin
• XBRL Financial Reporting in the 21st Century
  by Liv A. Watson

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Software Publisher Update

• ACCPAC Advantage Series(TM)
• CaseWare Working Papers
• CPA2Biz CPA Dashboard will produce XBRL reports
• eKeeper CFO Virtual Desktop System (Q3)
• eNumerate Solutions Taxonomy Developer, Analyst
  Tools
• FRx Forecaster
• Hyperion Hyperion Reports (Q3-4)

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Software Publisher Update

• KPMG's Columbus ASP for continuous business
  performance improvement (Q4)
• KPMG Consulting Inc. developing the XBRLearning
  Channel.
• Navision Financials
• Newtec's MultiMart(TM) Web Financials
• SAP will deliver XBRL functionality as part of
  its mySAP Financials e-business solution (Q4)
• XBRL Solutions - Taxonomy Builder, XBRL Tools,
  Training

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XBRL Taxonomies Under Development
App to fin rep

• Commercial and Industrial Companies, US GAAP -
  Published
• Federal Departments, US
• Mutual Funds, US
• Financial Institutions, US
• Commercial and Industrial, IASC
• Commercial and Industrial, German GAAP
• Bank Call Reports - FDIC

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How Do You Get There?
Needs Assessment
Design Solution/Business Plan
Training Education
Implementation
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Does XML Shortcomings?
Not a replacement for integration and middleware
tools
Lots of Hype, not a solution for everything
There are many different standards among
industries
Standards still evoloving
But, you cant wait while the standards evolve.
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So when will this happen??
quiz

1. Never.
2. After I retire.
3. Before I retire but too late for me to have to
   worry about it.
4. Sooner than I want to admit, but I still have
   enough time to procrastinate.
5. Next five years.
6. Next two to three years.

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XBRL Development Adoption
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When Will It Reach Critical Mass?

• The phonograph is of no commercial use
• - (Thomas Edison, 1880)
• Everything that has been invented has been
  invented - ( Charles Duel, Director US Patent
  Office, 1899)
• Who the hell wants to hear actors talking?
• - (Harvey Warner, 1927)
• I think there is a world market for about five
  computers - (Thomas J Watson, Chairman, IBM,
  1943)
• There is no reason for any individual to have a
  computer in their home - (Ken Oloson,
  President of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
• 640k ought to be enough for anyone
• - (Bill Gates, 1981)

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When Applications Talk to Each Other
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Final Thought..

• Change is not what it used to be..
• Change has become a process its become a
  permanent part of the external environment

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Additional Education Sources

• www.xbrl.org - Student Competition
• www.xml.org
• www.ebxml.org
• www.w3.org
• www.rosettanet.org
• www.ibm.com/developer/xml
• www.microsoft.com/industry/biztalk

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Summary

• FASTER
• BETTER
• CHEAPER
• Our profession will have to follow technology
  and record business activity in an real-time
  mode.

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Concluding Remarks..
Embrace Change or Die!
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To download slides.
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Questions ?
Liv A. Watson Edgar-Online Inc E-Mail
Lwatson_at_Edgar-Online.com Phone [phone]