XBRL is creating a revolutionary movement in the accounting world. Not since the creation of the spreadsheet has there been so much excitement. Through the use of XBRL corporations can now move business-reporting data and interface it with other XML based systems. Thus allowing reports that were once not compatible to become compatible and more user-friendly to financial executives. Until now only programmers and a few financial techies have understood XBRL. Now that this language is much more accessible financial executives must understand its fundamental premises. This book explains the history of XBRL and shows how corporations can use it to not only save money but why it should become the model that their financial reporting is based on.

Author Biography

BRYAN BERGERON is an expert in the practical application of technology to business processes. He teaches in the Health Sciences and Technology Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT, is the author of numerous books and publications, and speaks internationally to business leaders on a wide variety of technology and business issues.