WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ — XBRL US, the national consortium for XML standards in business reporting and developers of the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies, is conducting an in-person training workshop in San Francisco, CA on September 16, 2009 to educate preparers on how to create XBRL-formatted financial statements for mandatory submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This hands-on session will demonstrate how to use the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies and how to convert primary financial statements and block tag footnotes in XBRL format.
All attendees will leave the workshop with a completed XBRL-formatted financial statement and a repeatable step-by-step guide. Preparers can register for the workshop at http://xbrl.us/events/Pages/training.aspx.
Who should attend: CFOs, Controllers, Assistant Controllers, External Reporting Managers, and finance staff members who have direct responsibility for implementing SEC XBRL filing requirements.
What attendees will learn: How to create an XBRL-formatted financial statement, including footnotes.
Topics Covered:
- Overview of XBRL
- SEC requirements for filing in XBRL
- Planning considerations – resources, software and services
- Building an XBRL-formatted document step-by-step
- Mapping financial statements to taxonomies
- Creating taxonomy extensions
- Tagging financial statements
- Validation
- Filing XBRL-formatted documents
When: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm PT
Where: Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA
The cost for the full-day workshop is $795. Filers can register for the San Francisco workshop at http://xbrl.us/events/Pages/training.aspx. Requests for further information about the workshops can be e-mailed to training@xbrl.us.
About XBRL
XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is a royalty-free, open specification for software that uses XML data tags to describe business and financial information for public and private companies and other organizations. XBRL benefits all members of the information supply chain by utilizing a standards-based method with which users can prepare, publish in a variety of formats, exchange and analyze business and financial statements and the information they contain.
About XBRL US
XBRL US is the non-profit consortium for XML business reporting standards in the United States and is a jurisdiction of XBRL International. It represents the business information supply chain, including accounting firms, software companies, financial databases, financial printers and government agencies. Its mission is to support the implementation of XML business reporting standards through the development of taxonomies relevant for use by US public and private sectors, working with a goal of interoperability between sectors, and by promoting adoption of these taxonomies through the collaboration of all business reporting supply chain participants. XBRL US has developed taxonomies to support U.S. GAAP and common reporting practices, the Risk Return Summary in mutual fund prospectuses and the Schedule of Investments under contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies are available for review at http://xbrl.us/taxonomies/Pages/US-GAAP2009.aspx.
Link: www.xbrl.us
CONTACT: Michelle Savage, Vice President, Communication, XBRL US, Inc., michelle.savage@xbrl.us, +1-917-747-1714
