ACCOUNTING ON THE INTERNET

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INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING ON THE INTERNET

Professor Donald L. Raun

Callifornia State University, Northridge

draun@huey.csun.edu

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Internet and the Accounting Networks

The typical accounting faculty member and many students have free access to Email and the Internet. If you are not using the Internet you are wasting a major resoruce.

There are several outstanding accounting networks of the Internet and available to accounting faculty and students at no cost:

<1. The Pacioli International Centre>

The Pacioli International Centre for Accounting Education Using Computers and Multimedia hosted by Loyola College in Maryland, USA>

You can subscribe by sending an Email message address to:

MAILSERV@LOYOLA.EDU

In the text write only the following:

Subscribe AECM-L

ANET

ANET is a part of the International Accounting Network hosted by Southern Cross University in Australia. The Uniform Resource Locator is: http://anet.scu.edu.au/anet/

This accounting network provides more than 18 interest groups, which you can subscribe to at no cost. The interest groups and their descriptions are as follows:

INTEREST GROUP NAME.......DESCRIPTION OF DISCUSSIONS

ANews-L...............News

ATeach-L..............Teaching and Learning

AFINAcc-L.............Financial Accounting

AMgtAcc-L.............Management Accounting

AAccSys-L.............Accounting Information Systems

ATax-L................Taxation

AAudit-L..............Auditing

AIntAcc-L.............International Accounting

AGvNFP-L..............Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting

AEthics-L.............Ethics

ABooks-L..............New Books

ASocial-L.............Social Accounting

AProfsn-L.............Academic/Profession Interface

AOilAcc-L.............Extractive Industries

AIntSys-L.............Intelligent and Expert Systems

ANetDev-L.............development of the accounting network

ATwoYear-L............special problems of two year colleges

AJobs-L...............academic job announcements

AAAES-L...............American Accounting Association -AI/ES Newsletter

AAATC-L...............American Accounting Association -Teaching & Curriculum Section

AAcrdn-L..............Accounting Program Accreditation

AStdnt-L..............Accounting Student List

New groups are being added. The following URL will access the current interest groups. http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw.htm

4. SUMMA PROJECT

The SUMMA Project is a part of the International Accounting Network hosted by the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. The Uniform Resource Locator is:

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~BJSpaul/ICAEW/ICAEW.html

THE WORLD WIDE WEB is one of the newest client-server based internet services. WWW software (like Mosaic, or Mosaic Netscape) enables you to view documents of many different types, such as, audio, image, video, formated text, by simply clicking a mouse on a picture, word,or URL on the screen. By using Uniform Resoruce Locators (URL's) any computer system with any document on the Internet can be displayed on the screen. The URL is like a street address or telephone number used to locate network servers.

The Netscape software is excellent and can be downloaded free from the following sites:

You do not need Mosaic Netscape software to become active in the Accounting Network. All you need is an Email access to the Internet, which should be available to all faculty.

References

Pike, Mary Ann, "Using the Internet, Second Edition," QUE Corporation, 1995.

Some good introductions to the Internet on the Internet.

Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet: http://soma.npa.uiuc.edu//docs/bdgtti.html
Zen and the Art of the Internet: ftp://ftp.cs.widener.edu/pub/zen
Patrick Crispen's ROADMAP to the Internet Course http://www.interport.net/~ednorman/roadmap.html

This document will be updated on a regular basis. Comments, suggestions and complaints are welcome. With your help we can make this experience a useful resource for teaching and learning Accounting. The primary objective is to provide a path for other accounting faculty to develop educational materials on the Internet.

draun@huey.csun.edu