Comments on: The SEC’s Promotion of XBRL Is BRILLIANT! http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2007/05/29/the-secs-promotion-of-xbrl-is%e2%80%a6brilliant/ XBRL News and Commentary from the Hitachi XBRL Business Unit Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:45:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Chris Whalen http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2007/05/29/the-secs-promotion-of-xbrl-is%e2%80%a6brilliant/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Chris Whalen Wed, 30 May 2007 16:31:55 +0000 http://blog.hitachixbrl.com/2007/05/29/the-secs-promotion-of-xbrl-is%e2%80%a6brilliant/#comment-1099 The SEC's public promotion of XBRL is certainly brilliant, in large part because of the personal commitment of Chris Cox, but the technical implementation and strategic positioning are another matter. Read our comment on same in today's issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst. Specifically, if XBRL becomes 1) overly complex and therefore costly and/or 2) connected with Sarbanes-Oxley and Section 404 systems & controls compliance, then the XBRL community is going to face serious issues in terms of adoption. http://us1.institutionalriskanalytics.com/pub/IRAstory.asp?tag=221 The SEC's public promotion of XBRL is certainly brilliant, in large part because of the personal commitment of Chris Cox, but the technical implementation and strategic positioning are another matter. Read our comment on same in today's issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst. Specifically, if XBRL becomes 1) overly complex and therefore costly and/or 2) connected with Sarbanes-Oxley and Section 404 systems & controls compliance, then the XBRL community is going to face serious issues in terms of adoption.

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