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Business, financial reporting applications get boost from latest XBRL release.


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 (www.xbrl.org See .org.

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 companies and government agencies, recently announced the recommended release of version 2.1 of its XBRL technical specification. Enhanced functionality of version 2.1 will ease XBRL implementation by users of XBRL-enabled software and will improve the ability of application developers to create platform independent XBRL applications and tools.
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Title Annotation:technology
Publication:CPA Letter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Feb 1, 2004
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