Accounting

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Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.

  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe:   To find accounting information, go to Business and scroll down to Accounting to obtain access to the sources below. Each of these sources may be searched by Keyword.

    • Accountant's Liability:  Focuses on information needed to successfully litigate and defend accountant liability cases.
    • Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release:   Releases from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) that are enforcement actions taken for violations of SEC and federal rules.
    • Accounting Series Releases:   SEC interpretations of the many SEC documents, laws & rules affecting American securities, both private & public sectors.
    • Accounting Technology:   Focuses on technology in accounting.
    • Accounting Today:  Information on marketing and developing an accounting practice.
    • AICPA Accounting and Auditing Publications:  Material from various American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) publications. The file includes the full text of all the articles from the Journal of Accountancy, Tax Adviser, CPA Letter, and the Tax Division Newsletter.
    • AICPA CPA Letter:   A publication of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
    • AICPA Journal of Accountancy:  A publication of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
    • AICPA Publications:   Contains authoritative and semiauthoritative professional accounting material. The file includes the full text of pronouncements from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
    • Controller's Report (IOMA):   This publication provides financial management strategies.
    • FRR SEC Financial Reporting Release:   SEC Financial Reporting Release.
    • John Wiley Publications:   Includes material related to accounting, corporate governance, and other corporate issues. Each title is divided into multiple chapters. The following John Wiley titles are available through this form: Accounting Reference Desktop, Corporate Performance Measurement, Cost of Capital: Estimation and Applications, Essentials of Patents, Essentials of Trademarks and Unfair Competition, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Assets in Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property Damages: Guideline & Analysis, International Mergers & Acquisitions: Country by Country Tax Guide, Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings, Not for Profit GAAP, Patent Strategy: The Manager's Guide to Profiting from Patent Portfolios, The Technology M&A Guidebook, Transfer Pricing International: A Country by Country Guide, Wiley GAAP, Wiley GAAP for Governments, and Wiley IAS: Interpretation and Application of International Accounting Standards.
    • Journal of Business Strategy: Provides information influencing purchasing in the areas of consulting, acquisition and competitive analysis.
    • Miller GAAP Guide:   The Miller GAAP Guide (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) explains and analyzes all critical accounting principals and pronouncements currently in use, including FASB Statements, Interpretations, Technical Bulletins, ARB's and APB's.
    • Miller GAAS Guide:   The Miller GAAS Guide (Generally Accepted Auditing Standards) describes the auditing standards, practices and procedures promulgated by the AICPA.
    • Miller Government GAAP Guide:   The Miller Governmental GAAP Guide discusses all the promulgated accounting principles applicable to financial reporting by state and local governments.
    • Miller GAAP Emerging Issues Task Force:   Analyzes and explains all current issues for which FASB's Emerging Issues Task Force has reached a consensus since its establishment in 1984, except for those that have been nullified by a subsequent authoritative pronouncement.
    • Miller European Accounting Guide:   The European Accounting Guide is a companion volume to Miller GAAP Guide.
    • Miller GAAP - Not For Profit Organization Audit:   A guide for performing audits for not-for-profit organizations.
    • OMB Literature:   Contains Office of Management & Budget literature.
    • Practical Accountant:   Provides users with practical tax and accounting money-making advice and time-saving tips.
    • Staff Accounting Bulletin:   Contains the staff's views on various issues such as disclosures, financial statements, income statement classification of charges, the use of regulations, and other accounting related issues.

  • Oxford Reference: Economics & Business:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under List of All Business Databases. This database provides online searching and content for Oxford University Press's Dictionaries of Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance and Banking, Human Resource Management, and the Handbook of International Financial Terms. See the Dictionary of Accounting.

  • RIA Checkpoint:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases.   RIA Checkpoint is a tax database, designed for research, with comprehensive coverage of U.S., international, and state tax law, analysis, treatises, tax news, rulings, and practical practice aids. The database also includes a pension and benefits and a payroll library. In addition to the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, this database includes a number of RIA full text publications such as the Federal Tax Coordinator and the RIA Federal Tax Handbook, as well as Warren, Gorham, and Lamont tax journals. Use of this database requires a one-time personal registration. Click here to register with your UW NetID.

    Web Resources:

    Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.

  • The Accounting Industry (Washington Post):   This site is an online special report, maintained by the Washington Post, with links to a wide range of related stories on accounting.

  • Accounting Observer Blog:   This blog records observations about accounting topics in the news, from Jack Ciesielski, from the research service The Analyst's Accounting Observer.

  • Accounting Research Network:   The Accounting Research Network is part of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) which is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. The SSRN Electronic Library consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 21,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 9,100 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.

  • Accounting Terminology Guide:   The New York State Society of CPA's prepared this glossary as an educational tool for journalists who report on and interpret financial information.

  • AccountingNet:   Information and services for accountants. Includes information on the CPA and CMA exams, links to regional CPA societies and news stories.

  • AICPA Online:   Web site for the American Institute for Certified Public Accountants. Includes recent exposure drafts, news and other information about the AICPA.

  • Center for Audit Quality:   "The Center is an autonomous, nonpartisan, nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C. It is governed by a Board that comprises leaders from the public company auditing firms, the American Institute of CPAs and the investor and issuer communities. The organization is affiliated with the American Institute of CPAs." See their Member Resources and Newsroom.

  • CFO.Com:   The online website of CFO Magazine is an excellent source for news about the accounting industry and profession, offering email news alerts, and information on a wide variety of Topics, Tools, and White Papers.

  • EPA Environmental Accounting Project:   A project developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 to help business account for environmental costs. Site offers full-text reports, surveys, and case studies relating to environmental accounting.

  • IRS.Com:   IRS.Com, from the Dot Com Corporation, claims to be the Internet's first consumer-oriented source for federal, state and local tax-related Developments, with answers to general tax questions, plus links to current federal and state-sponsored tax sites.

  • Japan Financials:   Translations and originals of official financial statements for all Tokyo Stock Exchange and major OTC firms. Also includes information on legal and accounting differences in Japan.

  • National Association of State Boards of Accountancy:   Includes a directory to state boards of accountancy, CPA exam schedule and requirements and other publications by the Association.

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook:   This Bureau of Labor Statistics' site offers information on 250 occupations, including a brief section for each occupation on earnings. See Accountants and Auditors.

  • Public Company Accounting Oversight Board:   "Section 103 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 directs the Board to establish auditing and related attestation, quality control, ethics, and independence standards and rules to be used by registered public accounting firms in the preparation and issuance of audit reports as required by the Act or the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission." See their Standards and Registration Disapproval Notices .

  • Reading Key SEC Findings:   This site, from the blog of business writer Michelle Leder, provides a cheatsheet to informed reading of S.E.C. filings and what can be gleaned from them about a company's operations.

  • Rutgers Accounting Web:   Provides links to FASB, GASB and other associations and standards organizations, journals, financial tools, government agencies and other resources related to accounting available on the Internet.

  • Scandal, Inc. (CNN Money):   This CNN Money site brings together in one location a host of stories about failures in the area of business ethics, corporate governance, accounting and more, along with a timeline of the more notorious recent abuses.

  • SEC & EDGAR Database:   News and information from the Securities and Exchange Commission plus a search engine for recent full-text SEC filings in the EDGAR Database.

  • Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic. As examples, see their entries for Accountancy and SEC Filings (for a brief explanation of the various filings).

    Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

    The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.

    Foster Business Library Reference Accounting Collection: Foster Business Library Books:

    The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

    To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

    If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

    The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

    A keyword search for the word Accounting, limited to materials in the Foster Business Library, retrieved over 2,900 titles. A subject search for the same term, limited to the Foster Business Library, produced over 2000 titles.

    Foster titles from these searches include:

    Foster Business Library Periodicals:

    Foster Business Library Articles:

    Articles in academic journals, magazines, trade periodicals, and newspapers are one of the best sources for any kind of research. While the Foster Business Library offers a large periodicals print collection, comprising over 800 titles, articles are most easily accessed online, 24/7, in such fulltext article databases as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases are available in the library or from off-campus, and provide access to over 10,000 periodicals and millions of articles.

    Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.

    ProQuest Databases:

    This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide.

    Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.

    This database includes citations for and, in many cases, full text, for over sixty periodicals with the word Account* in the title and nine periodicals with the word Audit* in the title. Go to Publication Search to view these titles.

    Accounting problems at major corporations can also be researched by searching by company name and the word accounting.

    As examples of articles, see:

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