XBRL News

New XBRL Intern at IASC Foundation

26 March 2007

The IASC Foundation XBRL Team welcomes Holger Obst as the newest member of our team.

Profile

Holger graduated from the University of Leipzig in Germany where he studied Business Administration and Economics with majors in Corporate Finance, Accounting and Economic Policy. He worked for KPMG in audit before he started as a research assistant at the Treuhandseminar, University of Cologne in Germany, where he currently lectures in International Accounting and is completing his PhD. His research work mainly relates to the benefits of XBRL to accounting regimes.

Holger is familiar with XML Standards like XSLT, XPath and XQuery. He has developed an XBRL taxonomy for his research work into IFRS and Fair Value, as well as adapting tools for filing XBRL instance files related to this project.

Internships

If you would like to join the IASC Foundation XBRL Team, we have a number of vacancies available for next year. Click here for more details.