Accounting
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General Reference Sources
Accounting Reference Desktop REF HF 5657.4 .B7195 2002
AICPA Professional Standards REF. 5667 .A55 2007
- For more recent information, see:AICPA Online
Collins Dictionary of Business
Financial & Accounting Guide for Not-For-Profit Organizations REF. HF5686.N56 G76 2009
The History of Accounting: An International Encyclopedia REF. HF 5605 .H573 1996
IFRS/US GAAP Comparison REF. HR 5626 .I247 2005
The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms REF. HF 5621 .M677 1998
Wiley CPA Exam Review 2007 REF. HF 5661 .C7228 2007
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:24, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Journal (magazine & newspaper) Indexes & Other Online Subscription Resources
Accounting Databases
NOTE: These are subscription databases and require Bradley login and password for off-campus access.
Checkpoint (RIA). Accounting Research (AICPA, WGL, & FASB). Full Text. Maximum 4 simultaneous users for FASB section and 35 users for other sections.
Checkpoint RIA Primary tax documents and secondary analysis for federal, state, and local taxation, estate planning, pensions and benefits, international taxation, and payroll taxation. Full Text.
- PLEASE NOTE
When using Checkpoint databases, it is necessary to Sign Off from Checkpoint databases to close out your session. If you accidentally enter the "wrong" Checkpoint database, then "Back" out without going through Sign Off, and try to enter the "correct" Checkpoint database, you'll find yourself back in the"wrong" database. Also, since the number of users is limited in the Checkpoint databases, you may inadvertently prevent other people from logging on, until the system times you out.
Business Databases with Accounting Articles
NOTE: These are subscription databases and require Bradley login and password for off-campus access.
ABI Inform ABI Inform provides citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles on business and management topics from U.S. and international publications; it is useful for finding scholarly articles. ABI Inform is also good for narrowing searches, due to its robust indexing and search capabilities.
Business Source Elite Business Source Elite provides full text coverage for nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals. Business Source Elite contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Business Week, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc. This database includes full text (PDF) coverage dating back as far as 1985, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies (from Datamonitor). This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Factiva
Factiva is a full-text database that comprises a collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources, including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times™, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as D&B company profiles.
Business students find Factiva useful for research on publicly traded companies, industry information, and marketing research. Factiva has robust search capabilities that make it particularly useful for hard-to-find and highly specific information needs.
Lexis-Nexis is a full-text, business, legal, and reference database. Business information includes company profile information, company financial information, and industry information. Information is included for both publicly and privately owned corporations and for international as well as U.S. companies. Lexis-Nexis is also a good resource for magazines, newspapers, and journals (including the New York Times) and a prime resource for legal information--both statutory and case law. The legal section of Lexis-Nexis includes regulatory information, international legal information, and law reviews. The Reference section of Lexis-Nexis includes Roper Poll data, country profiles, state profiles, and biograpical information.
A number of additional electronic resources of interest to business researchers are available from the Library’s web page. See Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers by Subject on the library's web page for a complete and up-to-date listing.
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:30, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
Internet Resources
American Accounting Association Site
Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:31, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
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--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 9:32, 18 August 2009 (CDT)
