http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/07/16/an-interview-with-dominic-jones-part-i/ XBRL News and Commentary from the Hitachi XBRL Business Unit Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:13:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/07/16/an-interview-with-dominic-jones-part-i/#comment-14587 Teching Teachnology for sustainability | iDionome Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:44:20 +0000 http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/07/16/an-interview-with-dominic-jones-part-i/#comment-14587 [...] An essential point about client education was made by Dominic Jones in a different forum: XBRL. I quote: Most US investor relations officers (IROs) are not directly involved in disclosure technology and have a very poor understanding of it. This is mostly because about 75% of investor relations sections on US corporate websites are outsourced to hosting services. IROs have generally been entirely hands off when it comes to these sites so they’ve lost out on a lot of important learning over the years. They don’t understand what HTML is, so XBRL is even more alien to them. [...] [...] An essential point about client education was made by Dominic Jones in a different forum: XBRL. I quote: Most US investor relations officers (IROs) are not directly involved in disclosure technology and have a very poor understanding of it. This is mostly because about 75% of investor relations sections on US corporate websites are outsourced to hosting services. IROs have generally been entirely hands off when it comes to these sites so they’ve lost out on a lot of important learning over the years. They don’t understand what HTML is, so XBRL is even more alien to them. [...]

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