XBRL and Red Tape Reduction Initiatives in Canada – SBR Webinar June 7, 2010
Following recent announcements by the Canadian Government on the formation of a Red Tape Reduction Commission to consider ways of reducing the cost of compliance for businesses, XBRL Canada will hold a webinar on June 7, 2010 at 4:00pm EDT on how XBRL and the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) model can help.
The webinar includes a presentation by Paul Madden, Director of the SBR Program in Australia. See the press release here and the XBRL Canada website to register for the event. Paul’s presentations are very informative and pragmatic, and the result of a solid and successful implementation experience. If you want to know more about SBR, I suggest not to miss this opportunity.
XBRL GL WG Outreach Call: The New XBRL GL Public Draft – Webcast Now Available
The webcast of the December 10, 2009 XBRL GL Working Group outreach call is now available in GaLaPaGoS. Eric E. Cohen (PricewaterhouseCoopers), Toshimitsu Suzuki (Fujitsu) and myself introduce the new Public Working Draft of the XBRL GL taxonomy, the new architecture designed to cater for labels in multiple languages and the newly added Japanese labels.
A Last Call for Comments has now been issued for the Public Working Draft, and the comment period ends on January 31, 2010. The purpose of this webcast is to provide an overview of the new features for the benefit of reviewers. If you have time and interest please check the webcast and the documentation in the PWD and provide your feedback to the XBRL GL Working Group or to me directly.
XBRL GL PLDPRC
Yesterday during the monthly – well OK, it is not monthly, it is periodic - XBRL GL Working Group outreach call I gave a presentation on one of the next big things in the implementation of XBRL for internal use: XBRL GL Profiles for Labels, Documentation, Presentation, Rules and Constraints, aka XBRL GL PLDPRC.
XBRL GL PLDPRC is about leveraging XBRL GL as a generic, holistic standard while at the same time providing a standardized way to cater for local restrictions and usage conventions – in other words, about safely customizing XBRL GL without breaking its philosophy and its architectural design, two features that ensure its “fitness for the purpose.”
I am very excited about this effort, because I believe that it is important not only as a tool to make XBRL GL implementation simpler and easily customizable for specific requirements, but also to contribute to the more general discussion about profiles for XBRL as a whole. The initial reaction within the XBRL community has been very encouraging in this respect.
The webcast of the presentation will be available soon in GaLaPaGoS, and I will let you know when that happens. Meanwhile, the slides that I presented yesterday are posted below.
If you have an interest in this discussion and you feel you can contribute, please let the XBRL GL Working Group or myself know.
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