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 | Subject Librarian: Judy Wells E-Mail: j-well@tc.umn.edu This subject covers: the field that has been termed the "language of business." It is an essential tool for planning and controlling both profit-seeking and nonprofit organizations. Accountant-prepared data such as financial statements and schedules and related notes, are used extensively by investors, financial analysts, and credit grantors as imput for their investment decisions and recommendations. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Business Source Premier    This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. Use this popular research database to find business articles from 2100 journals and magazines in marketing, management, information technology, operations, human resources, accounting, finance and economics dating back to 1965. Additional company and industry profiles from Datamonitor are included along with country analysis the Economist Intelligence Unit, Business Monitor International, CountryWatch, Icon Group, PRS and other publishers. [ more information ][  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Factiva Large database of newspapers, newswires, business magazines and journals, transcripts, press photographs, and web content from media outlets. Worldwide coverage of 9000 sources in 22 languages. Includes financial information for publicly traded companies, stocks, funds, currencies, and common market indexes. Limited to 7 simultaneous users. Due to licensing restrictions, not all of the publications in Factiva are available for academic libraries. See this demo: How to Identify Blocked Titles in Factiva Or contact Factiva technical support at 1-800-889-3358 or tsupport@proquest.com if you have questions. If you are interested in setting up a weekly or monthly alert on a topic, please contact the Journalism Librarian. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Hein Online Full-text legal periodicals database with browse and full-text search features. Includes coverage of many older legal periodicals not available in electronic format elsewhere. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Web of Science (ISI) Indexes over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk(*).
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic is a full text databases for news, business, and legal research. It includes sources for researching accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government and politics, people, consumer information, and countries worldwide. Locate company information, including the Hoovers Company Profiles.
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| ProQuest Newspapers This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. ProQuest Newspapers provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian, Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers of record. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Indexes, Other
| Proquest Congressional The Proquest Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004-present. The bibliographic records provide controlled-vocabulary indexing, including citations for bills, public laws, and Statutes at Large, and analytical abstracts of the documents. Also includes links to political parties and organizations, news sources, etc. See Overview/Help for useful information on the legislative process.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
| MNCAT (University of Minnesota library catalog) Search for books, conference proceedings, journals, maps, and other items in our collection.
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| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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General Reference Sources
Accounting Standards
| Accounting Research Manager A comprehensive financial reporting knowledge base. Updated daily, it aims to help reduce the amount of time you spend conducting accounting and auditing research while enhancing the quality of your results; find insightful interpretations on GAAP, GAAS and Securities and Exchange Commission rules; keep up-to-date on current accounting, SEC, auditing, and government projects that may affect your company. A 20 minute tutorial is available describing the database contents and showing how to use the database effectively.
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| Digital Accounting Collection
The Digital Accounting Collection at the University of Missippi is composed of several discrete collections. The “Accounting Pamphlets Collection– Bibliographic Citations Only” containing over 33,000 references, indexes the pamphlets, brochures and newsletters that the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ library collected from 1918 to 2000. The AICPA Library has an agreement with the University of Mississippi which allows digitization and display of older AICPA materials. The other collections are full text searchable. The “Accounting Pamphlets Collection - Full Text ” is a small, but growing, collection of full text materials culled from the “Bibliographic Citations Only Collection.” Currently, the "Accounting Pamphlets Collection - Full Text” features pamphlets from the early twentieth century which were published as practical guides to bookkeepers in various industries and organizations. The Academy of Accounting Historians has kindly given permission to publish the Accounting Historians Journal and the Accounting Historians Notebook. Complete runs of both periodicals, save the last (embargoed) year, are now available. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has given permission to post the full text of all their noncurrent exposure drafts. Finally, a small collection of accounting art provides an entertaining glimpse into accounting through the ages.
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| Financial Accounting Standards Board. The mission of the Financial Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve standards of
financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers,
auditors, and users of financial information.
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| Governmental Accounting Standards Board. The mission of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board 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.
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Dictionaries
| Accounting terminology guide The New York State Society of CPAs has prepared this glossary as an educational tool for those who report on and interpret financial information.
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Financial Ratios
| eStatement Studies The online version of the RMA Annual Statement Studies. The Annual Statement Studies are a source of composite performance metrics derived directly from the financial statements of financial institutions’ borrowers and prospects. These financial statements come directly to RMA from its member institutions, which get their data straight from their customers. Includes Financial Ratio Benchmarks, Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures, and individual NAICS downloads to Excel®.
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| IRS corporate financial ratios [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Key Business Ratios Key Business Ratios, from Dun and Bradstreet, help you to assess how a business is doing compared to an industry or a competitor. The 14 key business ratios cover the critical areas of business performance --solvency, efficiency and profitability. They are broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles. Ratios are arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes -a four-digit number that classifies business establishments by defining the industries in which they do business.
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Financial Reports
| Mergent Online Profiles of public corporations around the world that includes summaries, company histories, property, financials, subsdiaries, joint ventures, long term, press release and annual reports. Pdf images of corporate annual reports for publicly traded US and foreign corporations are available going back to 1996. Access to SEC filings via EDGAR database are also included in Mergent Online. |
| ORBIS Financial and directory information for 50 million companies worldwide. Includes private and public companies in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America.
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| ORBIS (via MINT GLOBAL interface) Directory and financial information on 50 million private and public companies worldwide.
Coverage includes 50,000 publicly quoted companies, nearly 30,000 banks, over 8,000 insurance companies,19 million European companies from 46 countries,15.5 million US and Canadian companies,6.5 million South and Central American companies,1.3 million Japanese companies 300,000 Chinese companies,and 220,000 African companies. See the instructions for downloading company profiles . See instructions for finding industry reports. |
| SEC: Corporate filings from the US Securities and Exchange Commission The SEC requires all public companies (except foreign companies and companies with
less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) to file registration statements,
periodic reports, and other forms electronically through this site (formerly called EDGAR). Anyone can access
and download this information for free. Here you'll find links to a complete list of filings
available from the SEC and instructions for searching the SEC database.
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| ThomsonOne Can be used with Internet Explorer ONLY, other browsers do not work. Please allow pop-ups, as this is necessary for proper display. Thomson ONE brings together company information from a variety of sources that are produced by Thomson Reuters. This includes company financials and filings, mergers and acquisition data and analyst reports. The following types of information are available: Company Overviews, Company News and Pricecharts, Corporate Governance (Takeover defense), Corporate financial fundamentals, Estimates (and earnings surprises), Debt overview, Company deals, Share ownership information, Company research (formerly Investext), Company financial filings, Officers and Directors.
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| WRDS: Wharton Research Data Service Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is the leading, comprehensive, web-based business data research service used by academic, government, and non-profit institutions. Developed in 1993 to support faculty research at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the service has since evolved to become a common tool for research for over 280 institutions around the world. WRDS supports a global research community of over 20,000 users in 27 countries. This hosted data service has become the locus for quantitative data research and is recognized by the academic and financial research community around the world as the leading business intelligence tool. It provides access to more than 60 terabytes of financial data. Databases available at our institution through WRDS are: BankScope, Compustat, CRSP, Dealscan, Eventus, Execucomp, Hoovers Online, I/B/E/S, RiskMetrics, TAQ, Thomson Reuters.
The WRDS databases are not licensed through the U Libraries. They are licensed through the Carlson School of Management. Use of the databases is restricted to Carlson School of Management students and employees. |
Forms, Tests, Inventories
| CPA exam dates and structure To become a certified public accountant, the candidate must pass all four parts of the Uniform CPA Examination. Each
state administers the examination and reports scores to its candidates. Check this site for additional information about the CPA exam.
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Guides
| Simple Studies.com Offers free and subscription based online accounting tutorials and lectures. Great for the budding entrepreneur who wants to learn some of the basics of accounting.
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Industry Profiles
| IBIS World IBISWorld Industry Reports cover over 700 industries in agriculture, mining, energy, construction, manufacturing, retail, transportation, finance, real estate, health care, entertainment, food and other business services. Each report includes leading companies, products and markets, industry outlook, competitive landscape, segmentation, and key statistics. The library subscription includes access to industry reports for China.
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| Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage Overviews, rankings and comparative statistics for major industries that provides detailed information on public companies such as stock reports, bonds, stock valuation annual reports, and other detailed fianancial statistics. NetAdvantage also includes investment services such as the advisory newsletter Outlook and screening directories for stocks, bonds and mutual funds. There are also directories for private companies and the Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives
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Security Analysts' Reports
| Investext Access using Internet Explorer (does not work with other browsers) Search for investment research featuring reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide. Nearly 4,000 new reports are added each business day. It also includes market research containing in-depth primary research and statistics, market trends, forecasts, segment analysis, and more. See also Investext Search Guide. This search guide is also available in PowerPoint format . [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
| Best of the Best Web Sites: Accounting and Taxation The American Library Association's Business Reference and Services Section recommendations as to the best of the open Web sources in Accounting and Taxation.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
| Financial Accounting Standards Board. The mission of the Financial Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve standards of
financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers,
auditors, and users of financial information.
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| International Accounting Standards International Accounting Standards (IAS) were issued by the IASC from 1973 to 2000. The IASB replaced the IASC in 2001. Since then, the IASB has amended some IAS, has proposed to amend other IAS, has proposed to replace some IAS with new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and has proposed certain new IFRS on topics for which there was no previous IAS. Through committees, both the IASC and the IASB also issue Interpretations of Standards. Financial statements may not be described as complying with International Accounting Standards unless they comply with all of the requirements of each applicable Standard and each applicable Interpretation.
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| Public Company Accounting Oversight Board PCAOB The PCAOB is a private sector, non-profit corporation, created by the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee auditors of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, fair and independent audit reports.
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| U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. The laws and rules that govern the securities industry in the United States derive from a simple and straightforward concept: all investors, whether large institutions or private individuals, should have access to certain basic facts about an investment prior to buying it, and so long as they hold it. To achieve this, the SEC requires public companies to disclose meaningful financial and other information to the public. This provides a common pool of knowledge for all investors to use to judge for themselves whether to buy, sell, or hold a particular security. Only through the steady flow of timely, comprehensive, and accurate information can people make sound investment decisions.
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Trade & Professional Associations
| Academy of Accounting Historians The objectives of the Academy are to encourage research, publication, teaching and personal interchanges in all phases of accounting history and its interrelation with business and economic history.
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| AICPA Online The site for the national professional association for CPAs with more than 330,000 members.
Features professional and regulatory news, and information about membership, the CPA exam,
and association publications.
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| American Accounting Association The American Accounting Association promotes worldwide excellence in
accounting education, research and practice. Founded in 1916 as the American
Association of University Instructors in Accounting, its present name was
adopted in 1936. The Association is a voluntary organization of persons
interested in accounting education and research.
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| American Taxation Association The American Taxation Association (ATA) was founded in 1974 and joined the American Accounting Association (AAA) in 1978 as the Tax Section of the AAA.
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| Association of Government Accountants AGA serves government accountability professionals by providing quality education, fostering professional development and certification, and supporting standards and research to advance government accountability. Provides helpful links to more resources.
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| Institute of Internal Auditors The Institute of Internal Auditors is an international professional association with global headquarters in Altamonte Springs, Fla. The IIA is the internal audit profession's global voice, recognized authority, acknowledged leader, chief advocate and principal educator. Members work in internal auditing, risk management, governance, internal conrol, information technology audit, education and security.
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| Institute of Management Accountants. The IMA is a professional organization devoted to management accounting and
financial management. Its goals are to help members
develop both personally and professionally, by means of education, certification, and association with
other business professionals.
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| International Federation of Accountants IFAC is a global organization for the accountancy profession dedicated to serving the public interest by strengthening the profession and contributing to the development of strong international economies.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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