Foundation (Understanding of XBRL)

This is a summary of information and resources for someone just getting started with XBRL or who wants to refactor their understanding of XBRL.

Foundation:

As a starting point, have a look at the information in this zip archive, Foundation.zip.

Empty XBRL: (99.61-TestCase-empty-xbrl.xml)

A first thing to understand is the core "stuff" in an XBRL file.  That can be best understood by looking at an "empty" report model and report. Here are all those files for an empty XBRL report model and report. One key point here is that a totally empty XBRL-based report (no facts, no report elements defined, no labels, no references, no relations, no XBRL formulas) is perfectly legal XBRL.  Start your mental trip there.  This step helps you understand the puzzle pieces.

Hello World: (81-TestCase-helloworld.xml)

Here is a Hello World example of an XBRL-based report. It has all the basic moving parts of XBRL and it helps you get your hands dirty with a small report model and small report. This report has one structure.

SFAC 6: (71-TestCase-sfac6-BS1-IS1.xml)

Here is the SFAC 6 example of an XBRL-based report which has three structures.

Other High Quality Examples (index.xml)

This is an ultra high quality set of example XBRL-based report models and reports.  This is effectively a conformance suite of XBRL-based reports that are correct, demonstrating all the different capabilities of the XBRL technical syntax.  The Showcase of Reports is another excellent source of examples.

Repository of Reports (Dashboard.html)

This is a prototype repository of XBRL-based reports.  You can read a list of reports and extract information from those reports.  This repository is small, but it gets several important points across when it comes to making use of XBRL-based information.

Very Basic XBRL Technical Primer:

This is a Very Basic XBRL Technical Primer that gets you going with the XBRL technical syntax should you be interested in those details.

Essentials of XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting:

This is the best version of Essentials of XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting (Platinum) This is the first step on your journey to mastery of XBRL-based reporting.

Mastering XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting:

This set of documents, Mastering XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting, is the best collection of information and resources regarding XBRL-based digital financial reporting that I have, organized and synthesized into one set of documents and links.

Additional Information:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Relational Knowledge Graph System (RKGS)

Image
Relational Knowledge Graph System (RKGS) is an interesting idea that combines the relational paradigm and the knowledge graph paradigm.  This documentation, Why RKGS , explains the idea. This gets even more interesting with the notion of "relational AI".  RelationalAI is described as follows by the company of the same name, Relational.ai : “RelationalAI is a cloud-based relational knowledge graph management system, with state of the art probabilistic processing and declarative reasoning at scale to make developing Data Applications a superpower for your business.” This notion of knowledge graphs represented in relational databases fits into my belief that knowledge graphs have two aspects: the expression SYNTAX and the logic of what is expressed or SEMANTICS. While the LOGIC of a knowledge graph is always the same regardless of technical syntax used to express that logic; there are many, many different technical syntaxes that can be used to represent a knowledge graph. There
Read more

Graph Hairball

Image
Knowledge graph system logic, the "things" and "relations between things" that  graph theory calls "vertices" (a.k.a. nodes, points, entities, things) and "edges" (a.k.a.  links, lines, relations, associations), looks like a big graph hairball as some people call it an example of which you can see here: Why?  This common view of a graph is because there has to be some "general view" of the information provided by the graph.  This is just like a general view of the information within a relational database is a table ; a set of ROWS and COLUMNS for exactly one table at a time. So what is interesting is that with a graph database the default view is everything in the graph of knowledge.  Whereas the default view of everything in a relational database is one table at a time. Further, it does not really matter whether the information that populates your knowledge graph comes from, say, CSV files, Excel, JSON, XBRL, RDF, PROLOG or whateve
Read more

PLATINUM Business Use Cases, Test Cases, Conformance Suite

Image
A brick wall is made of exactly two things: bricks, mortar. But a brick wall created by a master craftsman, or mason, and a brick wall created by a “weekend warrior” with no knowledge of masonry will be very different. Master craftsmen are created and that process takes time and effort. This blog post is a first prototype that brings several things together into one useful resource for business professionals.  It pulls together the human readable information of the Showcase of Reports   and the machine readable information of the Conformance Suite of XBRL-based Financial Reports Prepared using the Seattle Method .  Then, I want to incorporate the information found in these PLATINUM XBRL-based Financial Report Examples . The three resources can be useful and used independently; but they are even more useful when used together.  Business professionals really could not care a less about the technical details of getting some result that they want.  But technical professionals need to under
Read more