XBRL: changing paradigms, presenting opportunities.

• Position: Technology

XBRL, the Extensible Business Reporting Language, is an XML-based language used to describe business reporting information in internal financial reporting and for quarterly and annual financial and regulatory illreports ings. The AICPA is the founder and host of the international consortium working on XBRL (www.xbrl.org). A free conference is being offered on how XBRL is used today and the opportunities it presents for tomorrow. The event, hosted by Adobe Systems, will be held in San Jose, Calif., on Jan. 18, 2006.

Keynote presentations will be given by the CIO of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Deputy CIO of the Federal Deposit Insurance...