Comments on: SEC Will Require All Companies To Report in XBRL http://www.irwebreport.com/daily/2006/09/25/sec-will-require-all-companies-to-report-in-xbrl/ | Investor Relations Web Best Practices, Trends and News Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:59:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: IR Daily http://www.irwebreport.com/daily/2006/09/25/sec-will-require-all-companies-to-report-in-xbrl/#comment-43 IR Daily Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:22:55 +0000 http://www.irwebreport.com/daily/2006/09/25/sec-will-require-all-companies-to-report-in-xbrl/#comment-43 Joanne, PDF can be coded to include XBRL as attachments, but the end result is not easy to understand or use and it requires the latest version of the Acrobat reader. One company, CoreFiling, is providing an XBRL-enabled PDF product, but I think it's a waste of money because it requires a level of familiarity with PDF that few users have. SEDAR is a pathetic system because it relies on PDF. They should have moved to an HTML or XML-based system years ago. All of the PDF documents currently on file are not compatible with XBRL and it is probably unfeasible to convert them all to XBRL. Canada's regulators like to talk about how great SEDAR has been. I laugh every time I hear them say such things because they sound so silly. There is some interest from Canada's regulators to move to XBRL, but there likely would be many complaints from smaller issuers if they did. However, they should just bite the bullet and do it, even if it's in a simplified form. That's my view... Joanne,

PDF can be coded to include XBRL as attachments, but the end result is not easy to understand or use and it requires the latest version of the Acrobat reader.

One company, CoreFiling, is providing an XBRL-enabled PDF product, but I think it’s a waste of money because it requires a level of familiarity with PDF that few users have.

SEDAR is a pathetic system because it relies on PDF. They should have moved to an HTML or XML-based system years ago.

All of the PDF documents currently on file are not compatible with XBRL and it is probably unfeasible to convert them all to XBRL.

Canada’s regulators like to talk about how great SEDAR has been. I laugh every time I hear them say such things because they sound so silly.

There is some interest from Canada’s regulators to move to XBRL, but there likely would be many complaints from smaller issuers if they did.

However, they should just bite the bullet and do it, even if it’s in a simplified form. That’s my view…

]]> By: Joanne Bryant http://www.irwebreport.com/daily/2006/09/25/sec-will-require-all-companies-to-report-in-xbrl/#comment-42 Joanne Bryant Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:37:40 +0000 http://www.irwebreport.com/daily/2006/09/25/sec-will-require-all-companies-to-report-in-xbrl/#comment-42 This move to XBRL is very interesting for Canadian regulaters. The documents filed on SEDAR are all in pdf format so will XBRL coding be accessible if the Canadian regulators move to XBRL as well. This move to XBRL is very interesting for Canadian regulaters. The documents filed on SEDAR are all in pdf format so will XBRL coding be accessible if the Canadian regulators move to XBRL as well.

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