Metapatterns: Business Reporting Logical (2010-08-01) http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/rss.xml Metapatterns upon which all the Business Reporting Use cases were based and derived from those use cases. en-us Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:02 GMT Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:02 GMT http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/Matrix.xml Manual CharlesHoffman@olywa.net (Charles Hoffman) CharlesHoffman@olywa.net (Charles Hoffman) Hierarchy http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/01-Hierarchy/Hierarchy-SampleInstance.xml Hierarchy metapattern. No computations (i.e. no roll up, roll forward, or other computation) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:02 GMT http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/01-Hierarchy/Hierarchy-SampleInstance.xml Roll Up http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/02-RollUp/RollUp-SampleInstance.xml Roll up metapattern. Computations which add something up to a total. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:02 GMT http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/02-RollUp/RollUp-SampleInstance.xml Roll Forward http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/03-RollForward/RollForward-SampleInstance.xml Roll forward metapattern. Computations which reconcile a beginning balance to some ending balance (Beginning + Additions - Subtractions = Ending) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:02 GMT http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/03-RollForward/RollForward-SampleInstance.xml Compound Fact http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/04-CompoundFact/CompoundFact-SampleInstance.xml Compound Fact metapattern (probably not a metapatterns but rather a specific variation of one of the other three metapatterns). Always has one or more Measures which is used to differentiate a set of facts. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:02 GMT http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/04-CompoundFact/CompoundFact-SampleInstance.xml Other Relations http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/05-OtherRelations/OtherRelations-SampleInstance.xml Other Relations metapattern (probably not a metapatterns but rather a specific variation of one of the other three metapatterns. A Hierarchy which has more complex computations than can be expressed using a Roll Up or Roll Forward. Uses XBRL Formula to express the more complex business rules. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:02 GMT http://www.xbrlsite.com/Metapatterns/2010-08-01/05-OtherRelations/OtherRelations-SampleInstance.xml