XBRL Essentials

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Summary: Very good
Review: This book is very good for financial report and XBRl is also a good version of XML that help to make work easy for financial reports. It will go good.

Rating:
Summary: Snapshot of a speeding train with a big future
Review: XBRL is an important vocabulary of XML. Charles Hoffman is also known as the "father of XBRL" and a major contributor to the extensions for XBRL. Carolyn has made a large contribution to the eductional material available at http://www.xbrlsolutions.com/ . Having read this book, the two authors make a good team.

The book is targetted at the non technical audience. It is well written and very informative of the business case. It also contains a lot of useful links back to the technical elements of XBRL, allowing a useful translation between business and technical domains.

With the rapid developments in XML / XBRL, any XBRL book will date fast. XBRL V2.0 should be ready for recommendation in late October 2001. It may be best to view books on this subject in the same light as a magazine released every six months. Due to the high quality and style of XBRL Essentials, I will be happy to keep on buying the updates.

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Summary: Perhaps the worst-written book I've read over last year
Review: XBRL is an important vocabulary of XML. Charles Hoffman is also known as the "father of XBRL" and a major contributor to the extensions for XBRL. Carolyn has made a large contribution to the eductional material available at http://www.xbrlsolutions.com/ . Having read this book, the two authors make a good team.

The book is targetted at the non technical audience. It is well written and very informative of the business case. It also contains a lot of useful links back to the technical elements of XBRL, allowing a useful translation between business and technical domains.

With the rapid developments in XML / XBRL, any XBRL book will date fast. XBRL V2.0 should be ready for recommendation in late October 2001. It may be best to view books on this subject in the same light as a magazine released every six months. Due to the high quality and style of XBRL Essentials, I will be happy to keep on buying the updates.

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Summary: Perhaps the worst-written book I've read over last year
Review: XBRL is an XML application that standardizes sharing of financial information. In a nutshell, XML stores information in easy-to-read text files which can be shared by just about any computer. Because the American Institute of CPAs is really behind XBRL and in fact published this book, I thought this book would be a good overview and introduction. Unfortunately, it's not.

Actually, this may just be the worst-written book that I've read this year. In fact, this isn't really a book. It's just a big sales pitch for XBRL--about why it's so cool, so neat, so wow... Even that wouldn't be so bad, I guess, except that this is just terrible writing. Atrocious.

Bottomline? Try any other book. It can't be as bad as this title.