eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) brings the publication, exchange, and analysis of the complex financial information in corporate business reports into the dynamic and interactive realm of the internet. XBRL provides a common platform for critical business reporting processes and improves the reliability and ease of communicating financial data among users internal and external to the reporting enterprise. It is an XML-based, royalty-free, and open standard being developed by XBRL International Inc., which is a not-for-profit consortium of around 500 companies and agencies, delivering benefits to investors, accountants, regulators, executives, business and financial analysts, and information providers.
XBRL International, Inc and XBRL France will present the 19th International Conference in Paris, France on June 23-25, 2009. To Save the dates in your calendar, go to the conference website and use the link provided. The Program Committee led by Jean-Luc Menda, XBRL France & Tony Fragnito, XII has planned an exciting, interactive conference, so stay tuned to the website for keynote announcements, titles and descriptions of all program tracks .
XBRL Ireland currently operates as Business Reporting Ireland Ltd, a non-profit company limited by gaurantee. XBRL Ireland brings together groups from the professions, the financial services industry, general industry, the software industry, the academic world and the public sector.
Following the principles of the international XBRL movement, membership of the organisation is open.
(XBRL itself is a financial reporting standard freely licensed by XBRL.ORG)
The key medium-term goal of XBRL Ireland is to provide an XBRL infrastructure in Ireland. Its future brief will embrace the concept of Business Reporting in the widest sense.