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Real Stories: Oracle Corporation. Rob Zwiebach Director, Applications Development, Oracle Corp. November 5, 2003. Agenda. Oracle Overview Initial XBRL Demand Initial XBRL Plans XBRL Plans Revisited XBRL Solution XBRL Issues. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Real Stories: Oracle Corporation
Rob Zwiebach
Director, Applications Development, Oracle Corp.
November 5, 2003
Agenda Oracle Overview Initial XBRL Demand Initial XBRL Plans XBRL Plans Revisited XBRL Solution XBRL Issues
Oracle CorporationWorld’s Leading Information Management Company
$10.9 Billion in Revenue $2.7 Billion in Applications $333M Annual Apps R&D
Over 120,000 Customers 90+% of Fortune 500 8,500+ with Apps Installed
Over 41,000 Employees 10,000+ for Applications
2nd Largest Software Company in the world
Initial XBRL Demand Focus on Financial Reporting
Specific Geographies: Japan, Australia Specific Customers: AICPA Increased Activity by Regulators Overall Focus on Improved Accountability and
Auditability
Lower demand for XBRL-GL
Initial XBRL Plans Focus on Financial Statement Generator (FSG) Automate Creation of FSG Components from
XBRL Taxonomy
Row Set
Column Set
XBRL Plans Revisited Leverage Strengths of FSG
Reusable Report Components Multiple Columns
Load Taxonomy ONCE Define Reports ONCE
XBRL Solution Load Taxonomies
PL/SQL program parses taxonomies, stores elements in ORACLE relational tables
Link Taxonomy to Row Set User function using FSG Forms UI (and/or ADI UI) Store linkage of elements and rows in existing FSG
tables (new columns)
Specify Output Type at Runtime FSG concurrent program generates file of specified
output type
XBRL Issues How to Identify Time Period
Balance Sheet vs. Income Statement PTD vs. QTD vs. YTD startDate, endDate, instant, duration, others Oracle Solution: Determine startDate and endDate for
all columns based on relative period and balance type
XBRL Issues (continued) Multi-Language Support
Labels should appear in user’s language No clear method for specifying multiple labels per
element Oracle Solution: Separate taxonomy per language
XBRL Issues (continued) Actual vs. Budget vs. Variance
No clear method for specifying budgets More of a concern for internal reporting Oracle Solution:
Store balance type as <scenario> for budgets Exclude variance from XBRL instance document
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