AICPA co-hosts November 2003 XBRL International Conference in Seattle.Approximately 300 attendees from 20 countries attended the 8th XBRL (EXtensible Business Reporting Language) A specification for publishing financial information in the XML format. It is designed to provide a standard set of XML tags for exchanging accounting information and financial statements between companies and analysts. International Conference in Seattle during the first week of Nov. 2003. Conference speakers included David Odell, CFO See Chief Financial Officer. of Hyperion Solutions; Susan Strausberg, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of EDGAR Edgar or Eadgar (both: ĕd`gər), 943?–975, king of the English (959–75), son of Edmund, king of Wessex. In 957 the Mercians and Northumbrians rebelled against Edgar's brother Edwy and chose Edgar as their king. Online; and Tim Bray, co-author of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . In other news at the conference, Microsoft's Chris Kurt, standards diplomat for Web Services, demonstrated how EDGAR Online, a financial information company specializing in making complex regulatory reporting by public companies actionable and easy to use, would deliver financial information in XBRL format to Microsoft Office 2003 applications using the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for XBRL. Ernst & Young, PR Newswire, Microsoft, Reuters, Bowne, and SunTrust Banks, Inc. also announced at the conference the launch of a project to demonstrate the benefits of how XBRL-enabled earnings releases can be created, distributed and used in order to facilitate greater transparency in corporate America, and have pledged to do their part to make the integration and transition as seamless as possible. Visit www.xbrlforearningsreleases. com to learn more. |
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