Rivet Software » Japan http://blog.rivetsoftware.com Comply. Control. Communicate. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:02:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Mr. Sato Does XBRL http://blog.rivetsoftware.com/2010/03/08/mr-sato-does-xbrl/ http://blog.rivetsoftware.com/2010/03/08/mr-sato-does-xbrl/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:38:49 +0000 Stewart McKie - Executive Advisor http://blog.rivetsoftware.com/?p=1263 The Japanese Institute of CPAs has produced a sweet cartoon explaining XBRL for newbies like Mr. Sato. This introduction makes a number of useful points, especially about the differences between HTML (rendering data) and XBRL (contextualizing data) and the potential for XBRL-tagged report data to improve analyst productivity and facilitate the automated auditing of data and translation of  data labels between jurisdictions. Whether you are or not, Mr. Sato seems won over by Mr. Suzuki’s compelling pitch and actually quite starry-eyed about the utility of XBRL, as this image shows:

mr sato does XBRL

mr sato does XBRL

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