Reconciling Seattle Method, OIM, SBRM, XBRL
The purpose of this blog post is to reconcile the alignment of the Seattle Method , XBRL International's Open Information Model (OIM), and the Object Management Group's Standard Business Report Model (SBRM). The Seattle Method, OIM, and SBRM are pretty much aligned because the Seattle Method is based on XBRL and OIM and the Seattle Method is also the basis for much of SBRM. The Seattle Method, OIM, and SBRM will then form an aligned formal global industry standards based conceptualization of a business report and the foundation upon which model-driven digital business reporting (including financial reporting) ecosystem will be built. First off, the Seattle Method, OIM, and SBRM should be grounded in some sort of upper level or top level ontology . This provides a rock solid foundation. Second, the objective is to create something like an " accounting oracle ", metadata for an ecosystem. That is the bigger picture. The following are a handful of key " thing...