Research Guides: Accounting

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Accounting Reference Items

Tax
RIA Checkpoint
Location: Steely Electronic Collection
Provides primary sources, legislative documents, editorial information, and news about taxes. Available online from Steely databases list. For off campus access, you must first register for a password from on campus or via VPN. With the username and password provided at registration you will find more features available.
General
Encyclopedia of Accounting Systems
Location: REF HF5635.E54 1994
Handbook of Model Accounting Reports and Formats
Location: REF HF5635.V53 1995
101 Business Ratios
Location: REF HF5657.4.G38 1993
A manager's handbook of definitions, equations, and computer algorithms. How to select, compute, present, and understand measures of sales, profit, debt, capital, efficiency, marketing, and investment.
Miller GAAS Guide (Generally Accepted Auditing Standards)
Location: REF HF5667.M514
A comprehensive restatement of Standards for Auditing, Attestation, Compilation and Review, and the Code of Professional Conduct. Last received 2006. Miller GAAS Update Service is available through the database, Business Source Premier (2006-present).
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (Financial Accounting Series) / Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Location: REF HF5601.F46x
Financial Accounting Standards Board Original Pronouncements: Accounting Standards
Location: REF HF5616.U5 O75
AICPA Professional Standards (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)
Location: REF HF5667 .A5x
Online full text available on Steely Library research computers only
Dictionary of Accounting
Location: REF HF5621 .D53 2005x
Directory of Global Professional Accounting and Business Certifications
Location: REF HF5630 .B25 2007
Company Information
Company Profiles (Datamonitor Reports)
Location: Online full-text through Business Source Premier
Enhanced Business Searching Interface, a Steely Library online database subscription
Mergent Online
Location: Online database
Contains information on publicly held companies Steely Library subscription database available from databases list
Research Insight (Compustat)
Location: Steely Electronic Collection
Standard & Poor's database of U.S. and Canadian public companies. Available only on Steely Library's computers. Ask at the third floor Public Service Desk for access details.
Lexis/Nexis Academic Search
Location: Online database
Contains information, including some private companies. Covers the Hoover's Reports. Available from Steely Library's databases list
Principal International Businesses / Dun & Bradstreet
Location: REF HF54.U5P74
Annual

The Accounting Research Guide is maintained by Andrea Brooks. Suggestions and comments are welcome.