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11/23/2009

The XBRL Wiki-onomy

The 2009 US-GAAP taxonomy really helped reduce the number of extension tags needed to complete a filing. But what happens when several hundred companies each add just a few tags? Over 13,000 new tags. About 500 companies have basically doubled the size of the US XBRL tag world. How's that for crowdsourcing?

Nov 23, 2009 10:14:32 AM

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XBRL Wiki-onomy Explodes The number of unique extension tags, tags companies create when they can't find a good fit in the current US GAAP dictionary, had been running around 8,000 . There are roughly 15,000 in the standard US GAAP set. This quarter the number exploded to about 48,500. The main cause of the increase is probably the set of companies that had to move into "detailed" tagging. That means placing every number in the Notes section of their 10-Q into this format. This number is way north of any expectations I had heard.

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