XBRL+Medium

=XBRL Medium= XBRL is the medium of the digital financial report.

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Characteristics of a Quality SEC XBRL Financial Filing (or Digital Financial Report)
The best place to begin is with the end goal in mind. The following is a summary of the characteristics or objectives/goals one might desire to achieve when creating an SEC XBRL financial filing or other digital financial report:
 * **HTML and XBRL convey the same message**: The SEC HTML and XBRL financial filing formats must communicate the same information and convey the same message; after all the information is the same, the only difference is the format or medium of the information.
 * **Financial integrity**: The SEC HTML financial filing foots, cross casts, and otherwise ticks and ties. The same will be true of the SEC XBRL financial filing. However, with the XBRL format the information must foot, cross cast, tick, and tie following the rules of XBRL and can be tested using automated computer processes. This type of testing is impossible with HTML formats as computer software cannot read the HTML and understand what it is seeing. Further, within an SEC XBRL financial filing,components of your filing should have integrity meaning that the relations between components should likewise have integrity. For example, some concepts are used in multiple places in your filing; these concepts should not be duplicated.
 * **Clear business meaning**: The business meaning of your SEC XBRL financial filing should be clear to you and clear to users of your financial information, preferably the same as your meaning. Another way to say this is that it is far better to be explicit than to leave readers to imply meaning which they may imply differently/incorrectly.
 * **Consistency with peer groups**: Concepts used from the US GAAP taxonomy and extension concepts added to a filing by a filer should be as similar to your peer groups as appropriate. A filer determines the unique aspects of their company, that is a desirable feature of XBRL.
 * **Consistency between periods**: Your filings should be consistent between filing periods. This consistency is balanced with your need to ¡§ease into¡¨ your desired SEC XBRL financial filing.
 * **Justifiable extension concepts**: Extension concepts defined in your company XBRL taxonomy should be justifiable. Reasoning behind possible US GAAP concepts and the ultimate decision on which concepts you chose to go with should be documented for future reference.
 * **Appropriate rendering**: While your SEC HTML rendering is one static HTML document, your SEC XBRL document will be rendered by the SEC Interactive DataViewer, other third party rendering tools such as the Firefox XBRL Viewer, EdgarOnline I-Metrix application, or XBRL Cloud XBRL viewer. Other such software exists and optimal renderings in each of these software applications is important as that is how users will make use of this information.
 * **Usable by analysts**: The ultimate goal is to have a filing usable by analyst which desire to reuse the information contained within an SEC XBRL financial filing.