| "> | | | | includes stock exchanges, regulatory bodies, filing |
| In my first article about implementing XBRL | | | | companies, accounting firms, large corporations |
| in-house, I focused on companies that had to | | | | with global subsidiaries or multi-layered |
| comply with regulatory bodies, and the | | | | organizational structures that have or manage |
| components they needed in order to implement | | | | complex financial reporting processes. The main |
| XBRL successfully. | | | | goal for these report consumers is to have an |
| This article will focus on the second class of XBRL | | | | easy way to capture, validate, review, |
| consumer - regulators or other organizations | | | | consolidate, store, and recall the reporting data |
| involved in data collection and consolidation. When | | | | from many companies, and then be able to |
| we think of this category of user, we think of | | | | quickly analyze this data for compliance and risk. |
| reporting needs at the macro level. This group | | | | |