CalCPA XBRL resources.

• Position: Member Tools - Brief article

As the rest of the world rushes to use extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for generating financial statements, it's becoming increasingly important for California CPAs to learn all they can about this movement.

The idea behind XBRL is simple: Instead of treating financial information as a block of text--as in a standard internet page or a printed document--XBRL provides an identifying tag, which is computer readable, for...