XBRL Podcast: Summary and Review of the SEC's Mandate

On December 17, 2008 the Securities and Exchange Commission finalized the amendment requiring companies and mutual funds to file financial disclosures in XBRL.

Download a concise and insightful podcast to hear Rob Blake, Bowne's Senior Director of XBRL Services and a founding member of XBRL International, summarize the critical points and details around the mandate.

Rob Blake
Senior Director, Interactive Services

As Senior Director of Interactive Services for Bowne & Co., Inc., Rob defines the strategic direction and solution offerings for regulatory interactive data initiatives focused on XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and XBRL® (eXtensible Business Reporting Language). Rob leverages more than 16 years of experience in business reporting and technology to lead Bowne's XBRL media outreach activities and involvement with XBRL International.

Prior to joining Bowne, Rob was Project Director for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) US GAAP Financial Statement Taxonomy Project, where he led a virtual team of over 25 companies and 70 people creating the new XBRL taxonomies for use by U.S. public companies.

Rob previously helped launch Rivet Software, a Denver, CO -based provider of interactive software applications built on XBRL and served for 9 years with Microsoft and subsidiaries in a variety of roles including XBRL Global Lead and Director of Product Strategies. Rob is also a founding member of XBRL International, the industry consortium formed in 1999 to develop and maintain XBRL that now includes over 800 organizations.