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).

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.

• The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of accounting   HD30.15 .B455 1995 v. 1.
• Best websites for financial professionals, business appraisers, and accountants   HF54.56 .L36 2003.
• Encyclopedic dictionary of accounting and finance   HF1001 .S525 1989.
• Encyclopedia of business ethics and society   HF5387 .E53 2008.
• History of accounting: an international encyclopedia   HF5605 .H573 1996.
• Digest of state accountancy laws and state board regulations   HF5616 .D51 2002.
• Accountant's almanac   HF5616 .U5 .A3 1989.
• The ultimate accountants' reference: including GAAP, IRS & SEC regulations, leases, and more / Steven M. Bragg   HF5616 .U5 .B713 2006.
• The FASB: the people, the process and the politics   HF5616 .U5 .M524 1998.
• Management of an accounting practice handbook / AICPA   HF5616 .U6 .A49 2004.   (Three ring-binder volumes)
• Emerson's big four annual report   HF5616 .U5 .P77 2003.
• Who audits America   HF5616 .U5 .W5 2002.
• Emerson's directory of leading accounting firms worldwide   HF5616 .U6 .E437 1994.
• Emerson's directory of leading U.S. accounting firms   HF5616 .U6 .E437 1998-1999.
• Careers in accounting   HF5616 .U5 .G39 2006.
• Great jobs for accounting majors   HF5616 .U5 .G643 2005.
• Accountants' handbook   HF5621 .A22 2003.   (Two volumes)
• English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English accounting dictionary   HF5621 .A653 1992.
• Concise English-Vietnamese accounting dictionary   HF5621 .C664 1998.
• Accounting: the language of business   HF5621 .D28 1977.
• Dictionary of accounting   HF5621 .E77 1985.
• The Penguin dictionary of accounting   HF5621 .N63 2002.
• Accounting dictionary: English-Spanish, Spanish-English   HF5621 .S26 2003.
• An accounting thesaurus: 500 years of accounting   HF5625 .A56 1995.
• Introduction to online accounting & financial research   HF5625.7 .I58 2004.
• GAAP handbook of policies and procedures   HF5626 .G3 1999.
• Transnational accounting   HF5626 .T72 2001.   (Three volumes)
• Best resumes for accountants and financial professionals / Kim Marino   HF5627 .M33 1994.
• Vault career guide to accounting   HF5628 .A433 2005.
• CIFAR's global register of the leading international accounting firms   HF5628 .C54 1995.
• Accounting certification, educational, & reciprocity requirements: an international guide   HF5630 .F38 1992.
• Encyclopedia of accounting systems   HF5635 .E54 1994.   (Two volumes)
• Financial accounting / Robert K. Eskew, Daniel L. Jensen   HF5635 .E85 1992.
• Introduction to management accounting / Charles T. Horngren, Gary L. Sundem, William O. Stratton   HF5635 .H814 1996.
• International handbook of financial reporting / Nexia International   HF5635 .I574 1993.
• Introduction to financial accounting / Robert G. May, Charles L. McDonald, James Jiambalvo   HF5635 .M4535 1995.
• Management accounting terminology   HF5635 .M235 1983.
• Portfolio of accounting systems for small and medium-sized businesses   HF5635 .P86 1992.
• Handbook of model accounting reports and formats   HF5635 .V53 1987.
• Author's guide to accounting and financial reporting publications   HF5657 .V36 1998-1999.
• Accounting reference desktop / Steven M. Bragg   HF5657.4 .B7195 2002.   (Also available online, in LexisNexis Academic, under Business, Accounting)
• 101 business ratios: a manager's handbook of definitions, equations, and computer algorithms   HF5657.4 .G38 1993.
• Managerial accounting / Cecily A. Raiborn, Jesse T. Barfield, Michael R. Kinney   HF5657.4 .R34 1999.
• Understanding auditor-client relationships: a multi-faceted analysis   HF5670 .K55 2001.
• Accountant's resource guide   HF5679 .F35 2002.   (Pamphlet)
• Analysis of financial statements / Leopold A. Bernstein, John J. Wild   HF5681 .B2 .B462 2000.
• Analyzing financial statements / George E. Ruth   HF5681 .B2 .C354 1998.
• Analyzing financial statements: skill builder / George E. Ruth   HF5681 .B2 .C3542 1998.
• RMA annual statement studies / Robert Morris Associates   HF5681 .B2 R6 (annual)
• How to analyze businesses, financial statements, and the quality of earnings   HF5681 .B2 .S4875 1991.
• The Spicer & Oppenheim guide to financial statements around the world   HF5681 .B2 .S6332 1989.
• How to read a financial report: wringing cash flow and other vital signs out of the numbers   HF5681 .B2 .T733.
• An analysis of issues related to distinguishing between liability and equity instruments   HF5681 .L6 .A52 1990.   (Pamphlet)
• Industry norms and key business ratios / Dun & Bradstreet   HF5681 .R25 .I525 (annual)
• IRS corporate financial ratios   HF5681 .R25 .I78 1989.
• Almanac of business and industrial financial ratios / by Leo Troy   HF5681 .R25 .T68 (annual)
• Business analysis & valuation: using financial statements: text & cases   HF5681 .V3 .P3 2000.
• A CPA's guide to accounting, auditing, and tax for construction contractors   HF5686 .B7 .R35 2002.
• Wiley not-for-profit GAAP   HF5686 .N56 .W55 2005.   (Also available online, in LexisNexis Academic, under Business, Accounting)
• Handbook of SEC accounting and disclosure   HF5686 .C7 .H336 1999.
• Financial management for hospitality decision makers   HF5686 .H75 .G85 2002.
• International finance and accounting handbook / edited by Frederick D.S. Choi   HF5686 .I56 .H36 2003.
• Understanding and using financial data: an Ernst & Young guide for attorneys   HF5686 .L35 .U53 1996.
• Business ratios and formulas: a comprehensive guide   HF5691 .B73 2002.
• Financial mathematics handbook / Robert Muksian   HF5691 .M84 1984.
• The Economist numbers guide: the essentials of business numeracy   HF5695 .S83 1998.
• Basic tables in business and economics   HF5699 .C892 1967.
• Accountant's handbook of formulas and tables   HF5699 .L56 1988.
• Economist desk companion: how to measure, convert, calculate, and define practically anything   HF5712 .E27 1998.
• The handbook of bank accounting: understanding and applying standards and regulations   HG1707 .W64 1993.
• Budgetary, accounting and financial vocabulary [French—English]   HJ796 .V62 1987.
• Governmental accounting, auditing, and financial reporting   HJ9773 .G68 1988.
• A financial history of modern U.S. corporate scandals: from Enron to reform   HV6769 .M37 2006.
• Top accounting issues for 2005 CPE course   KF1428 .Z9 .T67 2005.
• Thesaurus of accounting and auditing terminology   Z695.1 .A18 .T46 1974.
• Accountants' index master list of subject headings   Z7164 .C81 .A52 1988.
• Cabell's directory of publishing opportunities in accounting, economics, and finance   Z7164 .C81 .C322 2004-2005.
• Accounting: information sources   Z7164 .C81 .D28 1970.
• Financial journals and serials: an analytical guide to accounting, banking, finance, insurance, and investment periodicals   Z7164 .F5 .F53 1986.

The Foster Business Library Reference Accounting Collection is located adjacent to the Reference Collection. Unlike the Reference Collection, which is arranged by call number, the Reference Accounting Collection is arranged largely by issuing body; within those bodies, material is arranged alphabetically by series title. Color coding also helps accounting students navigate this collection, using the guides at the end of each shelving range. This arrangement is designed to facilitate self service access to reference accounting materials since many items in the collection are too narrow to permit easy identification of call numbers--and call numbers would scatter materials that logically belong together.

The Reference Accounting collection occupies two shelving ranges. One range and half of another is devoted to AICPA publications, including historical publications, exposure drafts, statements and standards, audit and accounting guides (in four volumes), audit risk alerts, audit guides, checklists, and committee publications. The remaining half range includes FASB, GASB, CICA, IASC, ICA and miscellaneous publications (the latter arranged alphabetically by call number):

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Financial Accounting Standards Board
• Governmental Accounting Standards Board
  
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
• Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
• International Accounting Standards Board
• Institute of Chartered Accountants

While this arrangement might seem daunting, it actually works very well for accounting students, accustomed as they are to searching for materials by issuing body. For an orientation to the arrangement of this collection, see the Foster Business Library Reference Accounting Collection Arrangement. For a detailed list of materials in this collection, see the research guide for the Foster Business Library Reference Accounting Collection.

Another source for locating where materials are in this collection is the UW Libraries Catalog. Here is an example, an AICPA publication:   Fraud detection in a GAAS audit: SAS no. 99 implementation guide. Materials in the Foster Reference Accounting collection include shelving notes to make it easier for you to find where materials are shelved. In the case of this title, the record says:   Shelved: AICPA Committee Series - AICPA. Practice Aid Series.

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:

• The finance and accounting desktop guide: accounting literacy for the non-financial manager   (2007)
• Accountants' handbook   (2007)   (Two volumes)
• Project management accounting: budgeting, tracking, and reporting costs and profitability   (2007)
• Effective writing: a handbook for accountants   (2006)
• Auditing cases: an interactive learning approach   (2006)
• Worldwide financial reporting: the development and future of accounting standards   (2006)
• Creative cash flow reporting: uncovering sustainable financial performance   (2005)
• Inventory accounting: a comprehensive guide   (2005)
• Accounting best practices   (2005)
• Detecting earnings management   (2004)

The Foster Periodicals Collection is located at the west end of the main floor, arranged alphabetically by title, from A to the right (north) to Z to the left (south); for a list of the titles in this collection, click here.

• Abacus: a journal of accounting and business studies, v.1-  (1965-)
• Accountancy, v.70-v.116 no.1227   (1959-Nov. 1995);   v.125 no.1280-   (Apr. 2000-)   Continued by and shelved with Accountancy international.
• Accountancy international, v.121 no.1258-v.125 no.1279   (June 1998-Mar. 2000)   Continued by and shelved with Accountancy.
• Accountant, v.142-194, no.5793-5928  (1960 - 1997)
• Accountants' journal, v. 38-71  (1959-1982)
• Accountant's magazine, v.68-97 no.1042  (1964 - May 1993).   Continued by CA (Edinburgh).
• Accounting and business research, v. 1-  (1970-)
• Accounting historian, v. 1-3, no. 4.  (1974 - fall 1976)   Continued by the Accounting historians journal.
• Accounting historians journal, v.4-  (spring 1977-)
• Accounting horizons, v.1-   (1987-)
• Accounting, organizations and society, v.1-  (June 1976-)
• Accounting review, v.1-  (1926-)
• Auditing: a journal of practice and theory, v.1-  (summer 1981-)
• Australian accountant, v.44-68  (1974-March 1998)   Incomplete.   Continued by Australian CPA
• Australian CPA, v.68 no.4-   (May 1998-)
• British accounting review, v.19-  (1987-)
• Charter (Sydney, Australia), v.61-71 no.1   (1990-Feb. 2000)
• Chartered accountant in Australia, v.36-59   (1965-1988)   Continued by Charter (Sydney, Australia).
• Chartered accountant, v.60 no.1-11   (1989)   Continued by Charter (Sydney, Australia)
• Computers in accounting, v.4-9 no.1   (1988-Jan. 1993)   Incomplete v.8.   Continued by Accounting technology.
• Contemporary accounting research, v. 1-   (fall 1984-)
• Government accountants journal, v.25-49 no.2 (spring 1976-summer 2000)   Continued by Journal of government financial management.
• Internal auditing, v.12 no.4-   (spring 1997-)
• Internal auditor, v.47-  (1990-)
• International accounting bulletin, no.1-166   (1983-1994)
• International journal of accounting, v.24-36   (1989-2001)   Continued by International journal of accounting education and research.
• International journal of accounting education and research, v.1-23 (1965-1988)
• Issues in accounting education, 1983-1985; v.1- (spring 1986-)
• Journal of accountancy, v.1-   (1905-)   Incomplete v.85.
• Journal of accounting and economics, v.1-   (1979-)
• Journal of accounting and public policy, v.1-   (fall 1982-)
• Journal of accounting, auditing and finance, v.1 no.4-v.8   (sum. 1978-1984);   n.s. v.1-   (win. 1986-)
• Journal of accounting education, v.2-19   (1984-2001)
• Journal of accounting literature, v.1-   (1982-)
• Journal of accounting research, v.1-   (spring 1963-)   Includes Supplement, v.12-   (1974-)
• Journal of business finance and accounting : JBFA, v.1-   (spring 1974-)
• Journal of management accounting research, v.1-   (1989-)
• Management accounting (U.S.), v.50-80 no.8 (Sept. 1968-Feb. 1999)   Changed title to Stategic finance.
• Management accounting (U.K.), v.43 no.1-v.78 no.7 (Jan. 1965-July/Aug. 2000)   Incomplete.
• National public accountant, v.42 no.5- (July 1997-)
• Public accounting report, Jan. 1983-Dec.1993 (Incomplete); 1994-
• Taxation for accountants, v.6 no.6-v.11, v.13-61 no.4   (1971-Oct.1998)   Continued by Practical tax strategies.

The UW Libraries subscribes to a very long list of electronic journals; for a list of electronic journals in the fields of business and economics, click here; for a list of electronic journals by nearly 100 subjects, click here.

• Electronic Journals in Accounting and Taxation

Foster Business Library Articles:

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to over 100 million full text articles in over 10,000 periodicals through its full text article databases such as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.

All four of these databases are available from any computer on the campus network as well as from home (via the UW Connectivity Kit or the Libraries' Off-Campus Access link, using your UW Net ID and password). The easiest of these databases to use is ProQuest Databases. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, see Database Access. For more information about business databases, see the research guide entitled Databases, A to Z.

• 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. Article full text is often available in several formats, including text, text plus graphics, and PDF. This database also offers a very useful subject structure, to narrow search results, as well as article citation information.

  Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, see About ProQuest Databases.

  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:

  • "Inquiry Assails Accounting Firm In Lender's Fall"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Mar 27, 2008.  pg. A.1)   (Full text of report)
  • "Research on Accounting Should Learn From the Past"   (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 21, 2008)
  • "The Move Towards Convergence of Accounting Standards World Wide"   (Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge. Hollywood: Sep 2007. Vol. 12, Iss. 1;  pg. 57, 6 pgs)
  • "A Tower Of Babel In Accounting?"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jun 15, 2007.  pg. C.1)
  • "Are we failing the exam?"   (Pennsylvania CPA Journal. Philadelphia: Summer 2006. Vol. 77, Iss. 2;  pg. 24, 4 pgs)
  • "Fannie Mae Ex-Officials May Face Legal Action Over Accounting"   (Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: May 24, 2006.  pg. A.1)
  • "SEC to look at Zale accounting"   (National Jeweler. New York: May 16, 2006. Vol. 100, Iss. 10;  pg. 1, 2 pgs)
  • "Website of the Month: AccountingStudents"   (The CPA Journal. New York: May 2006. Vol. 76, Iss. 5;  pg. 70, 1 pgs)
  • "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness for Auditor Independence"  ( Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge. Hollywood: Mar 2006. Vol. 8, Iss. 2;  pg. 190, 6 pgs)
  • "Four Years Later, Enron's Shadow Lingers as Change Comes Slowly"  (New York Times, Jan 5, 2005.  pg. C.1)
  • "S.E.C. Agrees on Set of Principles For Fining Companies for Fraud"  (New York Times, Jan 5, 2005.  pg. C.1)
  • "Dot-con job: how InfoSpace took its investors for a ride "  (Seattle Times, Mar 6, 2005.  pg. A.1)
    (See also the Seattle Times special report Dot-Con Job, for all the articles in this multi-part series)

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies.

See also the Foster Business Library's Business & Economics FAQ, and, in particular, the section for Taxation and Accounting.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by class or program)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by industry)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by title of assignment)
• Team Consultation Archives (arranged by academic quarter)
• Index to all Team Consultations and Research Guides      (Tax Resources)      (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)