Recently the Internet with XML technologies and especially XBRL technology has impacted what is recognised as the financial reporting supply chain. Some claims in the market report that XBRL has the potential to reduce inefficiencies, automate and optimise the financial reporting supply chain....

The concept of highly integrated and IT-supported information supply chains, which can be summed up by the term Integrated Business Reporting, has increasingly moved into the foreground of research interest. Current discussions on the improvement of intra-enterprise and extra-enterprise...