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XBRL Reporting : The New Filing Tool

MCA has recently mandated certain class of companies to file their audited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2011 onwards using XBRL taxonomy.

October 03, 2011 / 22:07 IST
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MCA has recently mandated certain class of companies to file their audited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2011 onwards using XBRL taxonomy.  XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is a new, electronic format for business information, which is expected to provide benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business and financial data and is becoming a global standard for financial reporting.

Besides other benefits to the organisations internally, the introduction of XBRL will increase the ability of different regulatory bodies to use the same electronic data set, without the need for manual re-submission of data or sending hard copies of documents to different bodies.

Grant Thornton, along with The Bombay Chambers, organized an interactive session to provide insights on XBRL and its impact on companies. The session was presented by Sai Venkateshwaran, Partner
first published: Oct 3, 2011 09:37 pm

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