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Greater Accountability, Less Red Tape: The Australian Standard Business Reporting Experience

Greater Accountability, Less Red Tape: The Australian Standard Business Reporting Experience

Paul Madden
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 10
ISSN: 1548-1131|EISSN: 1548-114X|EISBN13: 9781613506707|DOI: 10.4018/jebr.2011040101
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Madden, Paul. "Greater Accountability, Less Red Tape: The Australian Standard Business Reporting Experience." IJEBR vol.7, no.2 2011: pp.1-10. http://doi.org/10.4018/jebr.2011040101

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Madden, P. (2011). Greater Accountability, Less Red Tape: The Australian Standard Business Reporting Experience. International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR), 7(2), 1-10. http://doi.org/10.4018/jebr.2011040101

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Madden, Paul. "Greater Accountability, Less Red Tape: The Australian Standard Business Reporting Experience," International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR) 7, no.2: 1-10. http://doi.org/10.4018/jebr.2011040101

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Abstract

Australian governments are early adopters of many electronic record-keeping and reporting systems, and the Australian Standard Business Reporting (SBR) Program evolves this further. This paper examines the evolution from government-centric technologies and standards to collaborative, open, and community standards-based systems. It describes the SBR Program as a case study in the development of seamless business-to-government reporting, which delivers significant reductions in reporting costs for business. The flexibility and universality of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an important element in the SBR approach. The benefits to business and government reveal immediate and practical benefits that expand with the growing number of users of these standards and technologies. The open, collaborative processes that have been driven by the SBR Program are consistent with the current directions of e-government in various countries. Technology in government is interactive and viewed in terms of a complex adaptive system, which needs to grow, respond, and interact with systems used by businesses in the Australian and international communities. The use of XBRL in the SBR Program increases the integrity of data that is provided to multiple parties, eliminating the need to transform financial data in a business’s system to the various semantic differences currently imposed.

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