INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING RESEARCH WORKSHOP
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LIBRARIAN: Dr. Darlene Ann Parrish

The selected electronic resources listed below are useful for finding books and journal articles on various topics and for finding the U.S. accounting, auditing, governmental and SEC rules and how they are applied in practice.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG  Author or title searching:  Go to the "Basic Search" screen and from the "Browse Organized Lists" menu select "Author, Corporate Name" or "Title begins with." (Examples:  FASB or "FASB report") Subject searching:  Go to the "Basic Search" screen and from the "Browse Organized Lists" menu select "Subjects, All."  Type in the following Library of Congress subject headings (with dashes for subheadings):                Auditing                  Auditing--Periodicals

WEB SITES

AICPA  Information about the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its publications can be found at this WEB site.

EDGAR Database of Corporate Information (SEC)
This is the official WEB site of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The latest and historical filings can be located by selecting the link “Search for Company Filings.”

FASB This is the WEB site of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and provides limited access to some its publications.

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at (http://www.fau.edu/library) by selecting “Indexes/Databases” under "Quick Links." When accessing the databases remotely, select the link entitled “Off Campus Connect”  for the EZproxy server.

ABI/INFORM Global
Provides references to journal articles on various accounting topics.  Searches can be limited to peer-reviewed or scholarly journals and full text articles.  ABI/INFORM Complete can also be used to search multiple business databases including Global, Archive, Dateline and Trade & Industry. 

Accounting Research Manager  This is the primary resource for finding U.S. accounting, auditing, governmental and SEC rules and how they are applied in practice, including "best practices."

Business Source Premier  This database provides references to full text articles on accounting and other business topics.  Searches can be limited to "peer-reviewed" or "scholarly" journals in the "Advanced Search" screen.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
Includes current articles from the accounting literature, such as journals, reports, releases and bulletins.  Information can be accessed by going to "Business News"  and then "Accounting."  Most effective way of searching is by typing keywords in the “Headline.”

Mergent Online
This database is especially useful for locating detailed financial information on public companies, including a section on SEC filings.  Reports can be created on company comparisons by setting specific parameters for financial data, such as assets and liabilities.

PAIS International  Provides access to articles about governmental accounting, budgeting and finance.

Wall Street Journal 1984-Present
Provides full text access to articles, which can be searched by subjects or keywords.

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the “Electronic Databases” listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of the information?
2. How accurate is the information?
3. How reliable is the information?
4. How current is the information?
5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

CITING REFERENCES

BF76.7.P83 2001 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
5th ed. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2001.

APA Style Electronic Formats

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