Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

BRL—a specialized form of XML (extensible markup language)—is becoming more familiar to creators and users of electronic financial statements, but few people have actual hands-on experience with it.

Accounting isn’t my strong suit. So I read Following the Moneyto learn what a team of financial academicians think really happened with Enron and WorldCom, and what should be done about it. Subtitled ...

XBRL is a version of XML defined to meet the requirements of business and financial information. With XBRL, unique identifying tags are applied to financial data items. More than simple identifiers, ...