Summary of All Filings (Google)

The screen shot below shows a summary of the validation results for Google XBRL-based financial reports submitted to the SEC. (Provided by XBRL Cloud.)

Balance Sheet Summary Information (Google)

Below is summary information from the balance sheet, note that every balance sheet balances and that all balance sheets roll up correctly:

Net Income (Loss) Summary Information (Google)

Below is a summary of the net income (loss) breakdown between the amounts attributable to the parent and noncontrolling interest:

Comprehensive Income (Loss) Summary Information (Google)

Below is summary information for comprehensive income (loss):

Cash Flow Statement Summary Information (Google)

The accounting equation is a business rule. Business rules are a key to the meaningful exchange of business information from one system to another system. A business rule is simply an expression of some business requirement. If you represent a business rule in terms that a machine such as a computer can make use of, the machine can help you make sure that business rule is satisfied. Remember the issue with the Virgin Airlines relation between assets, current assets, and noncurrent assets that I mentioned. The relation does not foot. Consider how well a machine such as a computer do with making use of that information?

General Information (Google)

Below is general information reported:

Key Ratios (Google)

Below is a summary of several key financial ratios computed from reported information:

• #1. One primary thing to understand is that 'digital' is about the move from unstructured to structured information. Another important thing to understand is that we want to work with meaning, not presentation. Meaning is standard, presentation is arbitrary.
• #2. Because the information in a digital financial report, machines such as computers can do work for you.
• #3. XBRL is about structuring information and articulating information about the relations between the structured pieces. It is this machine-readable information and relations that makes this possible.
• #4. One work task is making sure the information contained in a digital financial report is articulated correctly.
• #5. XBRL-based digital financial reports have a high level of expressive power to articulate business rules for information reported within a digital financial report.
• #6. Imagine all the other sorts of relations between pieces of a financial report that could be represented in machine-readable form!
• #7. Machines such as computers can do even more work for you! The more relations represented in machine-readable form, the more work a computer can do.