7 Mar 03: Businesswire, Edgar Online Sponsor XBRL Event
Businesswire and Edgar Online Inc., two providers of financial information services, are co-sponsoring an investor relations symposium focusing on the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), an emerging global financial reporting platform for accessing and analyzing corporate information.
The conference, on March 20th, brings together a prestigious panel of experts who will distill in layman's terms the benefits of XBRL.
and the need for the investor relations industry to understand its implications for how they disseminate data to key audiences.
The panel includes:
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Alfred R. Berkeley, vice chairman, Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., will discuss how XBRL will increase the visibility of all listed companies;
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Rob Blake, director of XBRL, Microsoft, will provide a guide to available XBRL tools for companies seeking to become XBRL-compatible;
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Walter Hamscher, chairman, XBRL International, will examine how XBRL will improve corporate disclosure and control corporate compliance costs;
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Paul Penler, principal, Ernst & Young, will look at how XBRL facilitates the accounting industry's role in auditing corporate financial disclosures; and
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Mark Schnitzer, executive director, Morgan Stanley, will explain how XBRL enables analysts to work with corporate data more easily, and the resulting benefits to shareholders and other corporate stakeholders.
Liv A. Watson, director of XBRL, Edgar Online, will serve as moderator.