XBRL is a computer language add-on that facilitates the rendering of financial information. Its development has been accompanied by claims that XBRL will, among other things, lead to continuous reporting and eliminate financial reporting differences including differences between jurisdictional GAAP. These discussions have largely ignored the literature on voluntary disclosures and earnings mana...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: XBRL Information asymmetry Corporate disclosure Firm size Korean stock market This paper examines whether or not XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) adoption reduces information asymmetry in a stock market context. Student t-tests and multiple regression analysis were employed to examine the effect of XBRL adoption on information asymmetry in the capita...

The objective of this paper is to identify the factors that could have led North-American companies to voluntarily submit their information in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) under the XBRL Voluntary Financial Reporting Program (2005-2008). The motivation that led us to carry out this analysis was the fact that, despite the many benefits attributed to XBRL, only 137 companies (out...

As a standard for the exchange, transmission, and reporting of accounting and financial data, XRBL goes a long way toward standardization. However, as the extent of contemporary financial markets is now global, XBRL reporting must transcend or accommodate differences in reporting standards. While XBRL has been of great help in standardizing the presentation of the U.S. GAAP and IASB standards, ...

Business is reliant on Information Technology to process and share financial data. Proprietary formats often hinder the sharing of financial data as stakeholders can not uniformly read or access the data. As a result, XBRL (The eXtensible Business Reporting Language) was developed to address the information sharing issue, and is rapidly becoming the standard format for financial data. XBRL does...

The growing number of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) projects around the world and strong interest from bodies such as Security Exchange Commission in the United States (SEC), Central European Banking Supervisors in the European Union (CEBS) or International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in building XBRL taxonomies demonstrate the need for formalisation and methodical approac...

In the wake of the global financial crisis, a pressing need exists for improving investor friendliness, especially the transparency and interoperability of the financial statements of public companies. eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) and XBRL taxonomies can accomplish this objective. In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has mandated that all public companies m...

XBRL has the ability to provide financial statements with improved data information quality (DIQ). Contextual and representational DIQ are relevant to perceptual and decision factors of nonprofessional investors when they interact with XBRL-based financial statements and make investment decisions. The author posits that XBRL-based financial statements with improved contextual and representation...

XBRL is a standard language for publicating finantial reports over the Web that is based on XML and XLink. Currently, there are no computational tools to integrate XBRL data with information stored in other formats. ETL tools responsible for data materialization integration do not provide a means of navigating in XLink­based documents such as XBRL documents. Thus, in this paper, a framework arc...

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) has the potential to influence users’ processing of financial information and their judgments and decisions. XBRL is an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based language, developed specifically for financial reporting. XBRL, as a search-facilitating technology, contributes to direct searches and simultaneous presentation of related financial statement...