---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Final call for Abstracts: Business Reporting and Data Assurance ... Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:32:35 -0500 From: Saeed Roohani sroohani@BRYANT.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

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CALL FOR PAPERS Business Reporting and Data Assurance: The Role of Technology Solutions Abstract Deadline November 1, 2001, Completed paper due March 15, 2002

Recent calls for timely, full disclosure by the SEC and more disclosure by the FASB (on intangibles, non-financials, and forward-looking information) indicate that digital economy is presenting unique business reporting challenges. In addition, the new digital economy presents another unique set of challenges and opportunities to the world of assurance services. For example, assurance at the data level provides opportunities to assurance professionals to extend their services to business community beyond the traditional audit.

The Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) provides an XML-based framework that the global business information supply chain can use to create, exchange, and analyze financial reporting information including, but not limited to, regulatory filings such as annual and quarterly financial statements, general ledger information, and audit schedules. XBRL is freely licensed and facilitates the automatic exchange and reliable extraction of financial information among various software applications anywhere in the world.

Papers and proposed presentations are invited for presentation at the Conference on topics relevant to new business reporting mechanisms in the digital economy, data assurance, XBRL specification and implementations; and creating values for companies, customers and shareholders. Topics may include but not limited to the following:

Demand for XML-based business information created and reported; how timely business reporting technology creates value for companies, customers and shareholders; examine potential demand for assurance services at the data level; who will provide assurances at the data level; examine benefits of data assurance towards continuous auditing; issues and concerns about existing taxonomies; examination of HR-XML taxonomy; how XBRL works with EBXML; applications of XBRL in financial analysis, using XML to create business intelligence; issues about positioning XBRL as the primary business reporting language; internal company uses for XBRL; educational issues relevant to XBRL and its implementation; and future directions of taxonomies and XBRL applications; using XBRL General Ledger; XBRL IAS implementation strategies.

We encourage participation from both academic researchers and individuals in industry interested in XBRL, EBMXL, HR-XML, and other types of XML-based languages.

You have an option to present your paper at the XBRL Conference: April 19, 2002 Bryant College Smithfield, Rhode Island

High quality papers selected by the reviewers will be considered for publication in a monograph sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers. For more information please see: http://web.bryant.edu/xbrl or call Dr. Saeed Roohani 401 232-6168

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