Accounting Resources
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ABI/INFORM (ProQuest Business): Access ProQuest databases through your Learner Center
- Watch this Introduction to ProQuest Databases video to learn the basics of accessing and using this resource.
- Contains full-text journals, dissertations, trade publications, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data.
- Additional help can be found in the ProQuest Tutorial series
Additional Resources
Other Databases
Websites
Other Databases
Digital Commons Network – Accounting
- The BEPress Digital Commons Network is an open source institutional repository which makes the scholarly output of several universities and institutions freely available
- The accounting section contains almost 1000 works from 70 institutions
- A tutorial on using the Digital Commons Network can be found here
Digital Public Library of America
- Brings together free resources from America’s archives libraries, archives, and museums
- Striving to contain the full breadth of human expression, this portal currently provide access to over 5,000,000 resources
- Use the bookshelf tab or the search bar to navigate to the search interface or find resources on a particular topic
- Not business-specific, but use search features to narrow results down to your chosen topic
Directory of Open-Access Journals
- “The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact”
- Thousands of open access journals with full text articles
- Not accounting-specific
- “Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature”
- Since not all resources on Google Scholar are free, look for items that have a PDF link on the right hand side of the page, which indicate they are available for free immediate viewing
- Not accounting-specific, but use search features to narrow results down to your chosen topic
Websites
- Free quizzes, download-ready study guides, question and answer area, and accounting dictionary
Continuing Professional Education Accounting and Tax Institute
- A non-profit, on-line continuing education service for various accounting degrees fulfillment, such as CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and Financial Planning
- Included is information on the state board requirements across the United States, as well as a full online course catalog
- Nationwide database of 450,000 Certified Public Accountants and CPA firms searchable by criteria including name, location and industry focus
- Taxpayer, small business, and investing information is available for the public and the professional as well as job postings and career information
- CPA-Resource provides many resources, useful to professional accountants, CPAs or those interested in accounting
- Articles, blogs, news, audio and video content related to accounting are provided through a free membership, although many materials are also available without a membership
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
- The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board promulgates accounting principles for federal government reporting entities
- Provides access to all publications issued by FASAB including exposure drafts, the volume of original pronouncements, newsletters, minutes and meeting agendas
- An online resource for accounting students including
- Daily accounting news updates
- Guide to tax & accounting resources on the Web
- An online forum
- Employment information
- “Tips, tricks and solutions for accounting students and working world neophytes”
- “Tools and resources for the electronic accountant.”
- Features free, full-text articles of Accounting Today, Accounting Technology, and Practical Accountant
- Also has a newswire, news from Washington, and industry rankings
- Free registration is required to read the newsletter