WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- XBRL US, the national nsortium for XMLstandards in business reporting and developers of the XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies,is nducting an in-person training workshop in San Francis, CA on September16, 2009 to cate preparers on how to create XBRL-formatted financialstatements for mandatory submission to the Securities and Exchange mission(SEC). This hands-on session will demonstrate how to use the XBRL US GAAPTaxonomies and how to nvert primary financial statements and block tagfootnotes in XBRL format.

All attendees will leave the workshop with a mpleted XBRL-formattedfinancial statement and a repeatable step-by-step guide. Preparers canregister for the workshop at http://xbrl.us/events/Pages/training.aspx.

Who should attend: CFOs, ntrollers, Assistant ntrollers, ExternalReporting Managers, and finance staff members who have direct responsibilityfor implementing SEC XBRL filing requirements.

What attendees will learn: How to create an XBRL-formatted financialstatement, including footnotes.

ics vered:

    --  Overview of XBRL

    --  SEC requirements for filing in XBRL

    --  Planning nsiderations - resources, software and services

    --  Building an XBRL-formatted document step-by-step

    --  Mapping financial statements to taxonomies

    --  Creating taxonomy extensions

    --  Tagging financial statements

    --  Validation

    --  Filing XBRL-formatted documents

When: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm PT

Where: Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, San Francis, CA