XBRL Training and Best Practice
September 10 - 12 at the Downtown Hilton in Austin, Texas 

Join public company preparers and auditors for two intensive days of training and education on XBRL for SEC reporting, plus updates on implementing new accounting standards in XBRL formatted financials.  Sessions will be interactive and hands-on with an emphasis on practical case studies designed to ensure you walk away with knowledge and tools that can be applied immediately back at the office.

Hear keynote speakers:

Mike Starr, Deputy Chief Accountant for Policy Support and Market Monitoring, Securities and Exchange Commission on regulator use of XBRL public company data

Gary Hoover, Founder, Hoovers, Inc. and former Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin on the evolution in corporate reporting

Learn from panel sessions and participate in intensive, hands-on training sessions:

• FASB review of new ASUs and how to implement them in XBRL
• Public company case studies on establishing controls, detailed footnote tagging, bringing XBRL in-house, managing data quality, industry collaboration and more
• XBRL implementation considerations on how to improve the process with input from FASB, the SEC, the software and audit communities
• Practical training programs on modeling and tag selection in detailed footnote tagging and on how to review key areas in your XBRL financial statements
• In-depth discussion of best practice guidance
• Validation and data quality issues
• CPE available for most sessions 

This year we are introducing the XBRL Data Forum, a program for developers and IT investment professionals on how to use XBRL SEC data which is open to public company preparers as well.  This program will cover: 

• Technical presentations on the XBRL database and analytical applications
• The venture capitalist view of XBRL and businesses based on XBRL
• Building a business out of XBRL - challenges and opportunities