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There are over 13,000 tags in the 2011 US-GAAP taxonomy. You’ll use about 250 of them. Do you know which ones?

Save valuable by time by starting your XBRL tagging process armed with our XBRL Comparative Report. With this report, you'll know what tags were selected by other companies in your industry, your peers. You'll know what tags they used, what tags they avoided, and what elements they extended.

Key Benefits for the XBRL Comparative Report:

Save Time. Searching through available tagging options can take hours. With the XBRL Comparative Report you can search and filter information using predefined or custom views, so users can quickly find and select the same tag used by other filers within their industry.

Make more informed tag selections. With Rivet’s XBRL Comparative Report, users can quickly determine what tagging elements they’ve used in their filing that were not commonly used within their industry as well as determine what industry standard tagging elements and definitions they have not yet incorporated that others have used. Additionally, the XBRL Comparative Report provides the frequency each tagging element was used as an overall percentage of all SEC filings to date.

Know your level of comparability before you file. Save time in determining what your peer group disclosed in their XBRL filing. Compare across all aligned companies’ statements, disclosures and details.

Transition to 2011 Taxonomy. The US-GAAP 2011 taxonomy includes some significant tagging element changes from the 2009 version. With this report, users can easily filter to find tagging elements used from the 2009 taxonomy that are no longer available in the 2011 taxonomy and the recommend replacements.

Balance Sheet

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Tags

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An integral part of our XBRL reporting process at Microsoft is a quarterly analysis of the XBRL tags used by an alternating group of peer companies. This peer review helps us ensure that our XBRL reporting is complete and accurate and meets one of the most important objectives of XBRL, which is comparability of similar information across companies. To perform this review, we use a custom report created by Rivet.

Paige Hamack
SEC Reporting Group
Accounting Manager
Microsoft Corporation

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