Harvard business review - Breakthrough Ideas for 2007
Here Comes XBRL .......................13
Robert G.Eccles,Liv Watson,and Mike Willis
A new software standard for financial and business reporting, soon to be adopted by the U.S.Securities and Exchange Commission, will make it dramatically easier to generate, validate, aggregate, and analyze business and financial information — which in turn will improve the quality of the information companies use to make decisions.
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