Ali Saghafi; Mohammad Arab Mazaryazdi; Rafik Baghomian
Volume 3, Issue 10 , July 2005, , Pages 127-156
Abstract
The fast moving pace of developments on the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and especially on the Internet, affects all aspects of society. In accounting, the Internet provides a new and revolutionary method of financial reporting. It is fast, cheap and increasingly accessible to shareholders ...
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The fast moving pace of developments on the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and especially on the Internet, affects all aspects of society. In accounting, the Internet provides a new and revolutionary method of financial reporting. It is fast, cheap and increasingly accessible to shareholders and other stakeholders of the firms.
Despite above mentioned evolution, there is a little attention toward such changes in Iran.
The organization of this paper is as follows. It first provides a brief literature review of Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) and describes some theoretical approaches on i t. Thereafter the paper reports current situation of IFR and then predicts immediate and future trends of it. The last section reviews the current situation of IFR i n Iran and finally makes suggestions to improve the situation.
