Purpose: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires public companies to file structured data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). One of the key arguments behind the XBRL mandate is that the technical standard can help improve processing efficiency for data...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which Chinese firms voluntarily extend the standard XBRL taxonomy to disclose more detailed financial information; and second, to identify and test corporate governance factors that may be associated with voluntary taxonomy...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which Chinese firms voluntarily extend the standard XBRL taxonomy to disclose more detailed financial information; and second, to identify and test corporate governance factors that may be associated with voluntary taxonomy...