XBRL Taxonomy Development Handbook

The Taxonomy Development Handbook (TDH) is a comprehensive guide directing regulators, industry experts, and businesses through a practical roadmap to building high quality data standards, to support the increasing demand for data standardization in business and government reporting.


Taxonomy Approval Metrics and Process

Version 1.0 Approved May 10, 2018 The Taxonomy Approval Metrics (TAM) document establishes standards for the development of XBRL taxonomies and supporting materials, from the perspective of systems development. This set of standardized metrics will serve as an integral part of the XBRL US Taxonomy Approval Process to determine taxonomies that will be certified to […more]


XBRL US Style Guide

The XBRL US Style Guide has been revised and updated by the Domain Steering Committee. The Style Guide is designed to be used by developers as they build new taxonomies or update existing taxonomies, to facilitate the creation of consistent, high-quality, easy-to-use taxonomies.


XBRL Standard Units & Namespaces

Units Registry https://specifications.xbrl.org/work-product-index-registries-units-registry-1.0.html EDGAR State and Country Codes https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/edgarstatecodes.htm Namespaces Instance: xmlns:xbrli=”http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance” Numeric: xmlns:num=”http://www.xbrl.org/dtr/type/numeric” Xlink: xmlns:xlink=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink” Non-Numeric: xmlns:nonnum=”http://www.xbrl.org/dtr/type/non-numeric” Document Type: xmlns:xbrldt=”http://xbrl.org/2005/xbrldt” Linkbase: xmlns:link=”http://www.xbrl.org/2003/linkbase”


Work in Process Taxonomy Guide

The guide is intended to be used by preparers of financial statements familiar with the WIP Report format. The guide covers the basics required to allow a preparer to create a WIP report in an XBRL format. It is not intended as a guide to the XBRL specification. Software providers looking to incorporate modules into […more]


XBRL Specification Index

XBRL International publishes documents that define business reporting technologies in use by regulators and regulated companies, governments, businesses of all sizes and within large and medium sized enterprises. The development of these specifications follow a process designed to promote consensus, fairness, public accountability and quality. During this process, the document will be published at various […more]


Corporate Actions Architecture Guide

This document explains the design for the Corporate Actions Taxonomy. The content of this taxonomy is primarily based on the following: DTCC Corporate Actions Elements and Event Configurations used by the DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation) for corporate actions processing ISO (International Organization for Standardization) corporate actions notification message format (ISO 20022) Element and […more]


US GAAP Technical Guide

The purpose of this document is to detail the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies v1.0 (version 1.0). The intended audience of this document is a technical user familiar with XBRL, other specifications and modules of XBRL, XML Schema and XSLT stylesheets, etc. It is not intended as a tutorial. Business users may be interested in this […more]


US GAAP Architecture Guide

The purpose of this document is to detail the architecture of the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies v1.0 (version 1.0). The document also explains the design rationale and how the architecture satisfies the version 1.0 requirements. The intended audience of this document is a technical user familiar with XBRL, other specifications and modules of XBRL, XML […more]