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American Accounting AssociationXBRL Teaching WorkshopJuly 29 - July 31, 2009 |
The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is the rapidly maturing language for computerized financial and business operations reporting. The SEC has recently mandated financial reporting in XBRL for the 500 largest publicly traded companies beginning with fiscal periods ending in June 2009. Other companies, including those reporting using IFRS, will be phase in over the next three years. There is a similar track for reporting by mutual funds. This coupled with the widespread adoption of XBRL in the USA and around the world presage a significantly more widespread role for XBRL in the coming years. XBRL is likely to make significant changes in the way accountants and auditors do their work.
Purpose: The concepts underpinning XBRL can be grasped quickly as can the business case for XBRL. XBRL is, however, at the intersection of accounting and financial reporting, Internet technologies (XML) and metadata and knowledge representation. Developing the level of understanding necessary to support a teaching program requires an exposure to each of these foundations. The workshop will give equal emphasis to the accounting and technology foundations and to the practical applications of these foundations in the classroom. Particular attention will be given to working with the US GAAP taxonomy and preparing reports with that taxonomy. Participants will become immediately productive in teaching XBRL in a range of courses within the undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
Audience: Faculty in both two year and four year institutions who teach financial accounting, management accounting, auditing or accounting information systems. No knowledge of XBRL is assumed. Faculty should be thoroughly familiar with the operation of the Windows operating system.
Content: The course will encompass both the underpinning technology foundations of XBRL and, more importantly, applying XBRL to business problems. The course will encompass core XML technologies, the role of XBRL in the information supply chain, XBRL standards and taxonomies including the US GAAP and IFRS taxonomy families, and current XBRL software. Activities in the workshop will include pop quizzes, a range of individual exercises as well as longer small group activities that will be based both on the accounting, reporting and auditing issues and the underpinning XBRL technologies. All of these activities are designed to be applied in the classroom. In addition, there will be visiting speakers from the XBRL community.
Faculty: Dr. Clinton (Skip) White, University of Delaware and Roger Debreceny, University of Hawai`i at Manoa will be conducting the workshop. Skip and Roger have collaborated in running the XBRL workshop for the AAA since 2005. They have been involved in teaching and researching XBRL and in the development of XBRL standards and taxonomies over a number of years.
Format: The schedule will be a full and intensive three-day workshop.
Dates: July 29 - July 31, 2009
Activities will begin on Wednesday, July 29 at 10:30 am and will end at 4:00 pm on Friday, July 31.
Location: Hilton Newark Airport, Newark, NJ
Registration fee: $550 AAA member fee, $850 non-AAA member fee
Registration fee includes 3-day workshop, breakfasts, breaks, and lunches. The non-member registration fee also includes AAA membership with one association-wide journal. If you are a non-member, please be sure to complete the membership application.
Registration process: Space is limited and registration will not be processed until payment is received. Please fill out our Interactive PDF Registration Form, with your payment information and either email, mail or fax it to:
David Boynton
American Accounting Association
5717 Bessie Drive
Sarasota, FL 34233-2399
Fax: 941-923-4093
Email: David@aaahq.org
Registration Deadline: Space is limited. The deadline for registration and payment is June 30.
Please note: Sending credit card information via email is not secure. If you choose to email your registration form, you may leave the payment section blank, and contact David Boynton at 941-556-4122 to provide your credit card number.
Accommodations:
The workshop is scheduled just prior to the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting at the Hilton Newark Airport Hotel, with a guest room rate of $136+Tax. We will make your room reservation for arrival on July 28 and departure on July 31. If your arrival/departure dates will be different, please indicate on the registration form. A credit card will be required to guarantee your room reservation, but will not be charged until you check in to the hotel. We will provide your hotel confirmation number by July 11. If you wish to use a different credit card for your room reservation than the one listed on the workshop registration form, please contact David Boynton at 941-556-4122.
Meals: Breakfast on Thursday and Friday, lunch on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and a.m./p.m. breaks are included in your registration fee.
Cancellation Policy: If you cancel before June 30, you will receive a refund minus an administrative fee of $100.00. If you cancel after June 30, you will not receive a refund unless we are able to fill your place in the workshop. All cancellations must be received in writing.
Americans with Disabilities Act:
It is the intention of the American Accounting Association to comply fully with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Anyone registering for this workshop who has special needs, as covered by the ADA, is requested to notify the AAA to facilitate identification and accommodate these needs.
Pre-requisites: Workshop participants will be required to complete a pre-conference exercise on XML and will be provided with a set of readings prior to the session.
Bring to workshop: Laptop loaded with Office XP and Internet Explorer 6.0 or equivalent. Additional required software will be posted.
Questions: Contact David Boynton by phone at 941-556-4122 or email at David@aaahq.org.