The production and use of semantically rich accounting reports on the Internet: XML and XBRL

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 47-74

  Debreceny, Roger ^a   Gray, Glen L ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Department of Accounting and MIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; EXtensible Business Reporting Language, XBRL; EXtensible Markup Language, XML; Financial reporting; Information retrieval; Internet; Metadata; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002066937     PISSN: 14670895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1467-0895(00)00012-9     Document Type: Article

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