Track 4 - Best Practices Track

1. 21st XBRL International Conference“One Language, Common Vision: Role of XBRL Technology in the Post Crisis Era19-21 October 2010Beijing, China J. Louis Matherne, CPA Chief of Taxonomy Development Financial Accounting Standards Board Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 3:00pm – 3:30pm Track 4 - Best Practices Track BPB3. Financial Accounting Standards Board Experience With the Proposed2011 US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy

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3. FASB XBRL Charge Requirements* • Ongoing development & maintenance of US GAAP taxonomy • Release 2011 US GAAP Taxonomy • Includes 2009/2010 ASUs • Identifies and includes filer XBRL “Best Practice” • Verify taxonomy content from XBRL US • Create sample XBRL instance documents *As detailed in MOU with SEC

4. FASB XBRL Charge • Timeline for 2011 Taxonomy Release • 1 September 2010 • Begin 60 day public comment period • 15 December 2010 • Deliver FINAL taxonomy to SEC • Jan/Feb 2011 • SEC releases taxonomy for filer use

5. FASB XBRL Charge -Joint Effort • XBRL Team “models” ASU for presentation and disclosure requirements using Note Tagging Spreadsheet (NTS), which includes: • All identified concepts requiring modifications as a result of ASU • Concept definitions and references • Modeling relationships, i.e., Presentation, Calculation, Tables, etc. • Other basic attributes, i.e., monetary/string, debit/credit, etc.

6. FASB XBRL Charge -Joint Effort • Project Team reviews and provides input to: • Ensure completeness with emphasis on accuracy and language of definitions and references • Ensure all new disclosure requirements have corresponding elements in NTS • Study base taxonomy (on Yeti) to identify elements (not in NTS) that may be impacted by ASU Long-term strategy – integrate XBRL development into ASU process

7. “Best Practice” Review Objective • Improve taxonomy by creating concepts that increase comparability of financial data points • A recent study indicated that “only 37% of data elements are directly comparable between a pair of statements*.” • Any extension created by a filer results in a lack of comparability but an appropriately used extension can provide valuable information. *Hongwei Zhu and Harris Wu. – XBRL and Interoperability of Financial Statements in the U.S.

8. Proposed Taxonomy Exposure Process • ASU Development and Exposure Process ExposeTaxonomyFragment Model Disclosure On Agenda/Deliberate Watch Engage Pre-Ballot/Ballot ExposureDraft Pre-Ballot/Ballot Revise Re-Deliberate Revise Final Final • Proposed XBRL Development and Exposure Process Steps • Create elements • Create Instance Document • Expose taxonomy fragment with sample instance document • Make changes based on comments • Make changes based on comments • Release in base taxonomy as complete • Create sample disclosure working with Project Team

9. Overview Of Taxonomy Changes • Updates for accounting standards • Expanded disclosure for previous omissions, including common reporting practices observed in company filings • Correction of errors and rationalization of duplicated concepts • Updated modeling of existing taxonomy structures for XBRL architectural developments (e.g., dimensional tables).

10. Change Highlights • The proposed 2011 UGT has been updated for GAAP changes over the past two years and pronouncements that became effective for periods ending after December 15, 2010. • Placed additional PFS aggregation point elements that do not readily fit within the hierarchical structures of the PFS groups into supplemental disclosures. • Added new elements related to the following industries: agriculture, airlines, entertainment entities, and franchisors. • Added group “195000 – Disclosure – Comprehensive Text Block List”. This group contains instances of all text block elements.

11. Change Highlights • Created a label convention for the text blocks corresponding to the SEC block tagging requirement; Level one text block labels end with [Text Block]; Level two text blocks end with [Policy Text Block]; and Level three text blocks end with [Table Text Block]. • Converted many of the policy elements in group “290000 - Disclosure - Accounting Policies” from string elements to text block elements. • Added a new label (“2011 New Element”), which indicates that the element is a new addition to the 2011 UGT. • Improved reference linkage to the Accounting Standards Codification. Pre-Codification references have been retained to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy • Non-GAAP schemas are not included in the 2011 UGT. The relevant non-GAAP schemas are now published and supported directly by the SEC and are available on the SEC website.http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/edgartaxonomies_d.shtml

12. Public Comments

16. 21st XBRL International Conference“One Language, Common Vision: Role of XBRL Technology in the Post Crisis Era19-21 October 2010Beijing, China J. Louis Matherne, CPA Chief of Taxonomy Development Financial Accounting Standards Board Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 3:00pm – 3:30pm Track 4 - Best Practices Track BPB3. Financial Accounting Standards Board Experience With the Proposed2011 US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy