The first XBRL US National Conference, "XBRL Financial Reporting: Advancing Transparency, Transforming the Dialogue" was held on November 17-18, 2009 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Over 230 financial executives, analysts, investor relations professionals and service providers attended. Major themes identified in the conference include the move towards more practical implementation with lessons learned about XBRL filings from public companies, the SEC and the audit community. The message sent by keynotes and panelists is that XBRL implementation is well underway, best practices are being established in the first wave of the roll-out and all companies need to get educated and up-to-speed. A secondary theme was the future of public company reporting and how XBRL can and will factor into areas such as corporate actions, internal reporting and government reporting. The XBRL Essentials program, a separate track that provided practical education on creating XBRL-formatted financials to comply with the SEC's reporting requirements, was well attended by financial executives seeking to understand what their external reporting teams must do in the XBRL roll-out.

View presentations from the conference: http://xbrl.us/events/pages/natcon2009.aspx#present

Visit the conference website: http://xbrl.us/events/Pages/NatCon2009.aspx

XBRL US continues its ongoing series of free live webinars designed to help companies implement XBRL reporting. The program includes key steps, decisions and considerations for implementing XBRL, an overview of the SEC rule that requires XBRL for public company reporting, how to use a taxonomy and demonstrations on how create XBRL-formatted financial statements. The next webinar will be held on December 16, 2009.

Register for upcoming webinars: http://xbrl.us/events/Pages/current.aspx

Save the date for XBRL Essentials, SEC Filer Training sessions coming up in 2010: March in New York, NY; late May in New York, NY; September in San Francisco, November in Philadelphia. These one-day, in-person sessions will be taught by seasoned XBRL professionals intimately familiar with the US GAAP Taxonomy. The program will give financial managers the tools they need to understand the taxonomy, create XBRL-formatted financial statements, do block tagging and detailed tagging of footnotes. Definitive dates and locations will be set in the coming weeks.

XBRL US has issued a Call for Research Partners to expand research and development projects already underway to develop taxonomies (digital dictionaries) for corporate actions, proxy and governance and asset-backed securities. In addition to taxonomy development, other areas of research will focus on the harmonization of XBRL with other standards such as ISO 20022 for financial services and the Federal Government's NIEM framework, and advanced work on XML and XBRL implementations in the areas of identity management, extensibility, and rendering of tagged documents and data streams. Research partners will fund cooperative research, provide expert research fellows who will work with XBRL US in its New York labs, and sponsor internships. Facilitated workshops with research partners are scheduled to begin in January 2010.

Read the news release: http://xbrl.us/News/Pages/20091119.aspx

Learn more about XBRL US Labs: http://xbrl.us/taxonomies/Pages/labs.aspx

With the SEC's mandate for XBRL reporting that started this year, many public company financial executives are just getting started understanding what XBRL can do, how it works and how it can benefit analysts, investors and even themselves. Articles in this Guide seek to address some of these issues and provide food for thought on where XBRL will take public company executives next. Topics are:

• Adapting to a Changing Environment With a Move to XBRL
• XBRL to Streamline the Corporate Actions Process
• Does XBRL Change the Way You Look to Investors?
• The SEC Mandated XBRL... So Now What?
• Working with the US GAAP Taxonomy - Use of Extensions in the Rollout

Download a copy of the guide: http://xbrl.us/events/Documents/IssuerInvestorGuideConf2009.pdf