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Featured Sites Updated Sept.
10, 2007
Accountancy: Intute
This site from the U.K. lists associations, guides, and
other resources with emphasis in U.K. and international
accountancy sites.
Core Competencies for Business Reference:
Accounting
Core Competencies for Business Reference: Taxation
Best of the Best Business Web Sites: Accounting
and Taxation
These websites are created and maintained by business
librarians and contains common accounting terms and
frequently asked questions.
Central Banks
of the World
Managed by the BIS (Bank for International Settlements),
links provided to many country central banks where you
can find corporate, financial, and insurance rules and
regulations. Includes forms and instructions for
setting up businesses in host countries.
Accounting Tools, Databases and Articles
CCH Accounting, Business, and
Finance Research Network:
Accounting tools such as FASB access
through the Securities Tab of CCH Accounting, Business, and
Finance Research Network. Provides Pronouncements,
Interpretations, Emerging Issues.
CCH Tax Research:
Look fo the tab: Federal / Primary Sources that will
provide access to the Internal Revenue Code, Cases, and
interpretations. News articles on tax legislation also
available.
Factiva:
News items from Wall Street Journal and many other
financial and busines sources
Lexis/Nexis Academic:
Choose Business / Accounting. There you will
find authoritative accounting literature and news stories.
Check teh source list since some of the listed
publications are not up to date.
Resources
Core Competencies for Business Reference:
Accounting
Core Competencies for Business Reference: Taxation
Best of the Best Business Web Sites: Accounting
and Taxation
These websites are created and maintained by business
librarians and contains common accounting terms and
frequently asked questions.
CPANet
The CPANet site
serves as a web site resource and online community for
accounting professionals. This site also provides search
engine, it provides direct access to the following search
engine finance sub sites: 100hot, AltaVista, infoseek,
Yahoo! and much more.
Rutgers Accounting Web
Accounting
organizations on the Raw include Association of Government
Accountants (AGA), Institute of Internal Auditors, Inc and
others. This site also offers research information,
directory links to international accounting network sites.
AccountingNet
Delivers accounting
news, business information, products, and services. Provides
site search engine, registered users can also search Wiley GAAP and GAAS online.
Wachowicz's Web World: Web sites for discerning finance
students
Recommended by the Harvard Libraries Working
Knowledge newsletter. The site is a rich source of web
sites tools and tutorials for finance students. Designed to
supplement the Fundamentals of Financial Management
by John Wachowicz (Univ. of Tennessee) and James Van Horne.
Financial Ratios
You will first need the NAICS or SIC to look up industry
ratios:
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios /
Leo Troy.
REFERENCE 5681.R25 A45 2004
Troy's uses IRS tax return data, the publication covers 192
industries, and 50 performance indicators, you can often
find more detail in Troy's. Use NAICS to locate
your industry. Useful when other titles do not cover
your industry, and includes some industries that are
typically privately held.
Factiva
Covers news and business information, including Dow Jones
and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal, plus more
than 8,000 other sources providing current news.
Financial Studies of the Small
Business
REFERENCE HD 2346 .U5 F55a INDEX TABLE
Financial reports by industry of companies
with less than one million in assets.
Industry Norms and Key Business
Ratios / Dun and Bradstreet.
REFERENCE HF5681 .R25 I 532
Arranged by SIC, ratios by industry.
Provides quadrant comparisons.
Mergent Online
A financial analysis database of over 10,000 publicly traded
US and international companies. Search by SIC, long term
debt, profit margin, total revenue, and more. Create custom
financial comparison charts. Includes EDGAR (SEC) filings
back to 1993.
Lexis Nexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal,
and reference information.
RMA Annual Statement Studies
REFERENCE
HF5681.B2 R6
Industry financials and ratios by industry
type (SIC). Comparison data back 5 years.
Standard and Poor's Industry
Survey. Monthly investment review.
REFERENCE INDEX TABLE
HG4915 .S652
Essays in broad industry categories.
Financials for companies back 5 years, and 10th year.
Policies & Regulations
The General
Accounting Office
The General Accounting Office (GAO) .
The GAO exams all matters relating to the receipt and
disbursement of public funds.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission
The Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) mission is to "Administer federal
securities laws and issue rules and regulations to provide
protection for investors and to ensure that the securities
markets are fair and honest."
Professional Associations
American Institute for Certified Public
Accountants (AICPA)
http://www.aicpa.org
American Accounting Association (AAA)
http://aaahq.org/index.cfm
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
http://www.fasb.org
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
http://www.iasb.org
Standards &
Interpretations
FASB Pronouncements and
EITF Abstracts
Available from the FASB (Financial Accounting Standards
Board)
SFAS, SFAC, FASB Interpretations and Technical Bulletins and
EITS Abstracts
Standards setting bodies
American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants
It's mission is to "provide
members with the resources, information, and leadership that
enable them to provide valuable services in the highest
professional manner to benefit the public as well as
employers and clients."
Governmental Accounting Standards
Board
It's mission
statement is to "establish and improve standards of state
and local governmental accounting and financial reporting
that will result in useful information for users of
financial reports and guide and educate the public,
including issuers, auditors, and users of those financial
reports."
Financial Accounting Standards
Board
It's mission
statement is to "establish and improve standards of
financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and
education of the public, including issuers, and users of
financial information."
International
Central Banks
of the World
Managed by the BIS (Bank for International Settlements),
links provided to many country central banks where you
can find corporate, financial, and insurance rules and
regulations. Includes forms and instructions for
setting up businesses in host countries.
International Federation of
Accountants
This site will
provide you with information such as: current press
releases, major initiatives, meeting notices, etc.
International Accounting
Standards Committee
The International
Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) is working to achieve
uniformity in the accounting principles that are used by
businesses and other organizations for financial reporting
from around the world.
News &
Trends
American Accounting Association
The AAA promotes
worldwide excellence in accounting education, research, and
practice. This association is a voluntary organization of
persons interested in accounting education and research.
Electronic Accountant: A Web
Magazine and Resource Guide
The Practical
Accountant and Accounting technology, electronicaccountant
is an informative web magazine and
resource guide for accounting professionals and executives.
Forbes Accounting Corporate Scandal Sheet
Forbes tracks corporate
accounting allegations starting with Enron (October 2001).
The table provides company, date, allegations, investigating
agency and latest news.
Accounting Periodicals and References
(Selected)
Accounting Today HF5601.A377 Latest 12 months
AICPA Journal of Accountancy HF5601 .J7, Lexis/Nexis--Business--Accounting,
Proquest
AICPA Professional Standards 2002 ed. HF5667 .A43 2002
Reference
Miller GAAP Guide HF5616.U5 M5 Reference, Lexis/Nexis--Business--Accounting
Financial Periodicals and Journals (Selected)
For further reading: Di
Su, (2000), Financial Information Resources for Special
Librarians. Information Outlook: April 2000
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