What is a Linkbase?

Linkbases are a collection of Links, which themselves are a collection of locators, arcs, and potentially resources. Locators are elements that essentially reference a concept and provide an arbitrary label for it.

Is XBRL free?

XBRL is an open standard, with our specifications freely available and freely licensed. XBRL is supported by a strong software development community that has create a broad range of XBRL products, both free and commercial, covering the needs of both end users and developers.

What is XBRL schema?

An XBRL Taxonomy is a “vocabulary” or “dictionary” created by a group, compliant with the XBRL Specification, in order to exchange business information. An XBRL Instance document is a business report, such as a financial statement prepared to the XBRL specification.

What is an XBRL taxonomy?

Taxonomies are the reporting-area specific hierarchical dictionaries used by the XBRL community. They define the specific tags that are used for individual items of data (such as “net profit”), their attributes and their interrelationships.

What is XBRL used for?

XBRL, or eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is an XML standard for tagging business and financial reports to increase the transparency and accessibility of business information by using a uniform format.

Is XBRL a software?

XBRL or eXtensible Business Reporting Language is a software standard that was developed to improve the way in which financial data is communicated, making it easier to compile and share this data.

What countries use XBRL?

Membership List

MemberJurisdictionCountry
CalcbenchXBRL USUnited States
Capgemini (Netherlands)XBRL NetherlandsNetherlands
CaseWare NederlandXBRL NetherlandsNetherlands
CaseWare UKXBRL UKUnited Kingdom

Why is XBRL used?

What is the purpose of XBRL?

What is XBRL and its features?

XBRL is an Internet-based non-proprietary open standard which is used for the preparation, exchange and publishing of financial information among disparate computer platforms, software applications, and accounting standards. When formatted with tags, financial statements are called XBRL instance documents.

What is the difference between XML and XBRL?

XML, short for eXtensible Markup Language, is designed specifically for Web documents. XML is a rich language that facilitates the exchange of data between organizations via Web pages. XBRL, short for eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is an XML-based markup language developed for financial reporting.

What is the difference between XBRL and HTML?

HTML and XML are both mark up languages, but that’s where the similarities end. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a way of “tagging” text to cause it display in a certain way. XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML based technology. In other words, XBRL can be used to store or transport data.