AICPA co-hosts November 2003 XBRL International Conference in Seattle.

• Position: Technology

Approximately 300 attendees from 20 countries attended the 8th XBRL International Conference in Seattle during the first week of Nov. 2003. Conference speakers included David Odell, CFO of Hyperion Solutions; Susan Strausberg, President and CEO of EDGAR Online; and Tim Bray, co-author of XML.

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...