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Foster Business Library research guides are aimed at University of Washington students, faculty, and
staff, highlighting resources available to them; users not currently affiliated with the university
may be unable to access some of these resources.
Foster Business Library Databases:
Governmental or governmental-related:
Associations or Foundations:
Universities:
Other Sources:
This is a selected rather than a comprehensive list of tax-related titles in the Foster Business Library reference collection.
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. Go to the collection link above and search for Tax to find tax-related publications.
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).
The collection's arrangement:
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 Tax, limited to the Foster Business Library's collections,
retrieved over 670
records. Some examples include:
A subject search for Tax, limited to the Foster Business Library's collections, produced a
list of nearly 1,000
records. For a full list of tax-related subject headings, go to the Library of Congress
Subject Headings set of red volumes, volume five, S-Z, pages 5654 to 5657. This set is located
in the atlas/dictionary stand adjacent to the Foster Business Library reference desk.
Foster Business Library Corporate Annual Reports:
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand annual reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are filed in lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry itself. For a list of all the companies in the collection, see the library's Corporate Annual Reports Collection. For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, see the Annual Reports Industry Sector Index. For an index to companies in the collection with headquarters outside the U.S., see Corporate Annual Reports Headquarters Index.
Corporate annual reports are also often available on company homepages. A good source for those annual reports is Hoovers Online on the Foster Business Library homepage, under Business Databases.
Most company annual reports have references to the taxes paid, usually in the financial statement part of the report. To find references to tax, quickly, go to the company's homepage (the URL for which may be found in Hoovers Online), and use the binocular tool to search the company's annual report in PDF format for references to tax.
Foster Business Library Periodicals:
Tax-related titles in this collection include:
(From the Foster Business Library's list of Electronic Journals in business.)
Foster Business Library Articles:
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.
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.
To see what this database contains, on tax, go to Topic Guide and search for the subject
term Tax; doing so produces a very long list of tax-related subjects, such as Tax
abatement, Tax allocation, Tax assessments, Tax audits, Tax avoidance, Tax base, Tax basis, Tax
benefits,
Tax collections,
Tax controversies,
Tax court decisions,
Tax credits,
Tax cuts,
Tax deductions,
Tax deferred privileges,
Tax elections,
Tax evasion,
Tax exempt,
Tax exempt organizations,
Tax exempt securities,
Tax exemptions,
Tax free,
Tax free exchanges,
Tax free reorganization,
Tax havens,
Tax incentives,
Tax increases,
Tax liens,
Tax overpayment,
Tax planning,
Tax preparation,
Tax rates,
Tax reform,
Tax refunds,
Tax regulations,
Tax returns,
Tax revenues,
Tax services,
Tax shelters,
Tax treaties,
Tax underpayment,
Taxable income,
Taxation,
Taxation economics,
Taxes,
Taxpayer identification number, and
Taxpayers.
A search in this database, in all collections, on the topic of Tax Havens, for
instance, produced a list of over 770 articles, including almost 100 articles in
peer-reviewed scholarly publications. It is also possible to narrow a search for this subject with
related subjects such as Bills,
Corporate taxes,
Europe,
Multinational corporations,
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development,
Tax avoidance, and Tax legislation.
Examples of articles from these searches include:
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.