1. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The Application of Electronic Forms in the Financial Work Flow

2. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 2 Forms In The Past In The Future, E-forms. Example

3. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 3 In the past The use of forms was: Complicated Manipulation Too many people involved Errors happen / repetition of data Slow From desk to desk

4. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 4 Today: we use E-forms The E-forms form will be anywhere. E-forms under the control of version. Permanent availability. Data is: –Structured –Validated –Labeled

5. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 5 E-forms is a powerful tool based in standards that automates the creation of forms in PDF, which allow business users to add content directly into an XML document through the intuitive, user-friendly interface.

6. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 6

7. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 7 Standard Target people Other application Sharing E-forms

8. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 8 Processes in a E-form

9. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 9 Processing E-forms Integration with business processes Automation between applications. Insertion of the information in data bases.

10. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 10 Benefits Supress the many steps involved in any manual process. Save time in the classification and ordering. The data is only keyed in once. The data is being controlled and indentified by using tags. The information travels controlled by certain protocols. To access a particular form is easy Simple data input is also easy navigate within the form. To understand the form is easy.

11. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 11 The Electronic Workflow Universal Readability Publishing Ease Business Logic Remains Intact and Accessible Information Fidelity

12. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 12 Parts of a Electronic Workflow Document Preparation and Presentation Business Logic Information Transport Security Archiving

13. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 13 Security

14. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 14 Example

15. DIGITAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE (2005) The application of electronic forms in the financial workflow 15 SUMMARY www.adobe.com www.w3.org www.xml.org www.mapfre.com www.icisa.org SERGIO MONREAL smonreal@mapfre.com Key words: PDF XML