XBRL Extensible Business Reporting Language

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XBRL Report

XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is an open standards-based reporting system built to accommodate the electronic preparation and exchange of business reports around the world. XBRL started back in 1999 with 12 organizations as the founding members. There are now in excess of 450 organizations worldwide in over 30 countries involved in its development. It provides major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information. It offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data. The idea behind XBRL, eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is simple. Instead of treating financial information as a block of text - as in a standard internet page or a printed document - it provides an identifying tag for each individual item of data. This is computer readable. For example, company net profit has its own unique tag. The introduction of XBRL tags enables automated processing of business information by computer software, cutting out laborious and costly processes of manual re-entry and comparison. Computers can treat XBRL data "intelligently" as they can recognize the information in a XBRL document, select it, analyze it, store it, exchange it with other computers and present it automatically in a variety of ways for users. XBRL greatly increases the speed of handling of financial data, reduces the chance of error and permits automatic checking of information. Companies can use XBRL to save costs and streamline their processes for collecting and reporting financial information. Consumers of financial data, including investors, analysts, financial institutions and regulators, can receive, find, ...

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...ect Overview BARS is Deutsche Banks spreadsheeting tool for world wide capture and sophisticated analysis of customers financial statements. The application offers to Deutsche Banks credit officers access to 200.000 customers and 1.6 million financial statements stored in a central database. In order to facilitate data capture and to further streamline the credit process the application will be equipped with an XBRL-import interface.

Project 5 KOSDAQ XBRL Expansion Project to Company Level Taxonomy

Country Republic of KOREA

Project Status Implemented

Project Overview The objective of the XBRL Expansion Project was to convert corporate information of 30 listed companies to XBRL information for investors and analysts according to the needs of KOSDAQ. As a result of the project, KODAQ is able to provide financial data and non-financial data formatted in XBRL.

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