In the day of programming PHP, I wrote this application for school that would allow you to reference generally accepted accounts used by accountants. XBRL is an industry standard for transferring accounting related content. XBRL is simply an XML file and in most cases these files have a standard that is defined for how data will be stored within files. The great part about XML is that it allows you to port information between 2 completely different systems.
So I created this script that allows you to find and retrieve information about a particular account.
You start off by selecting an industry. Next, you select general account. Then, you can narrow your search results by simply typing in the name that you are looking for and it will bring up information about that particular account. Next you can choose to add it to a list of accounts that can be exported. Due to time constraints, I didn't have the chance to program much further past searching and finding account names. The original intent was to upload XBRL files and validate the account names and if an account was wrong it would make suggestions for what account it might be. This was not a very practical application but it wasn't intended to be.
If you are an accountant or are simply interested in what it is does take a look below:
XBRL Account Finder
