Regulators around the world have mandated the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) in financial reporting with a goal of serving the public interest by improving the usability of financial data. This study examines the different types of decisions regulators make when adopting...

In recent years, countries across the African continent have begun implementing solutions based on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for challenges ranging across the spectrum of sustainable development. The programs which have been implemented so far have produced impressive...

The IRS uses information contained in financial statements as well as tax returns to detect tax avoidance behavior. We examine the impact on corporate tax avoidance behavior of reductions in the IRS's information processing costs resulting from the mandatory adoption of XBRL for financial...

We propose a new measure of accounting reporting complexity (ARC) based on the count of accounting items (XBRL tags) disclosed in 10-K filings. The preparation and disclosure of more accounting items is complicated because it requires greater knowledge of authoritative accounting standards. This...

With the growth in the use of electronic communications technologies to communicate important business and trade information, the size of the earth, although it may remain at the present 7,900 miles in diameter, is rapidly shrinking. In a matter of seconds, commercial trade data can be exchanged...

Two of the advantages in the use of electronic communications technology to conduct business are the speed with which transactions can be conducted, and the consequent ability of commercial entities to transact business with the same ease as if they were across the street from one another, even...

Data and information are fundamental pieces for effective evidence-based policy making and provision of public services. In recent years, some private firms have been collecting large amounts of data, which, were they available to governments, could greatly improve their capacity to take better...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of adoption of electronic tax system in the relationship between attitude towards electronic tax system and tax compliance using evidence from small business enterprises (SBEs) of an African developing economy....

Using XBRL as a quasi-natural experiment, we examine whether the mandated improvement on financial information presentation attenuates the profitability of insiders' trades. We provide unique insights on how insiders profit from publicly available information. We find that XBRL adoption...

Some private firms collect data which could greatly improve the capacity of governments to take better policy decisions and to increase social welfare. Business-to-Government (B2G) data sharing can result in substantial benefits for society and save costs to governments. The current volume of...

This paper examines the impact of e-invoicing on firm tax compliance and performance using administrative tax data and quasi-experimental variation in the rollout of VAT electronic invoicing in Peru. We find that e-invoicing increases reported firm sales, purchases and value-added by over 5...

Overtime, as the earth evolved, technology advancement also continues to evolve in the aspects of human brain matter. People are now literate and becoming more innovative in transforming the old trends or systems with the use of complicated things that intermingle with the technological aspects...

Purpose – The UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (Model Law) is based on the principles of non-discrimination against the use of electronic means, functional equivalence, and technology neutrality underpinning all UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce. Investigating the...

XBRL is a modern tool for the digitalized disclosure of business and financial information of the business houses. And it is the reporting trend emerging around the world. This new tool removes almost all pitfalls of traditional format of financial reports such as paper-based, pdf, HTML, word...

The developments in electronic documents that are seen in recent years suggest that use of paper will be completely abandoned in all business processes after some time. As an advantage of the developments in information systems, the use of electronic documents has become widespread and even...

Blockchain technology is about to revolutionize all areas of daily life. According to proponents of the technology, there is no conceivable application that could not be realized using a blockchain. This raises the question of whether transport-related applications can also be represented and...

The main duty of every corporate house is to disclose its business affairs to various stakeholders. Stakeholders are the group of people having direct or indirect interest on the business performance and its positional aspects. To disclose information related to the firm performance and its...

XBRL is a very dynamic and modern financial reporting language which is being used around the world to communicate the results of operational and financial performance of the business organizations. It ensures accuracy, reliability, timeliness and decision usefulness to various stakeholders. The...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandated the adoption of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) in 2009, with the aim of facilitating data exchange and reducing information processing costs. To shed light on the economic consequences of this important disclosure...

Data as a resource and data sharing enable competitive supply chains and present-day digital platform business models. The recipe for these competitive supply chains will no longer be contingent on how different companies contract to share data in their existing business networks but how these...

The XBRL standard was adopted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the year 2008 as a standard by which the banks that are regulated by the RBI submit regulatory, prudential, supervisory, and other statistical data. This study focuses on estimating the effectiveness of the adoption of the XBRL...

We examine the impact of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) mandate on the timeliness of financial reporting, measured by the reporting lag between fiscal period end and the filing date. Using annual and quarterly filing data from 2007 to...

This paper analyses whether competition law can help to solve problems of access to data and interoperability in IoT ecosystems, where often one firm has exclusive control of the data produced by a smart device (and of the technical access to this device). Such a gatekeeper position can lead to...

Today all the business organizations working in the dynamic environment in which the stakeholders are having a dynamic information need. So the information so communicated to stakeholders is not only related to the present scenario but it also related to past and future prospect of the business...