A system and method utilizes intelligent agents for searching, analyzing, and reporting business, financial, or non-financial information available through communication networks, particularly the Internet, regardless of inconsistencies in formats and granularity of that information. This information may then be used by users for financial and non-financial information for business decisions, developing risk profiles and credit worthiness. The intelligent agent may search Internet resources for business information of companies upon a user's request. The intelligent agent parses the retrieved information consisted with series of texts and identifies tables containing various financial statements. Each extracted table may be parsed into line items and every line item may be identified by matching to the appropriate XBRL taxonomy. Finally, the intelligent agent tags the information using XBRL taxonomy and generates financial statements in XBRL. The intelligent agent may be utilized to search through the internet for financial and non-financial information for business decisions, developing risk profiles and credit worthiness.