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101 Business Ratios : a Manager's Handbook of Definitions, Equations...
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5657.4 .G38 1993

Accountants' Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5621 .A22 1999

Accounting Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5635 .S586 2000

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Accounting
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5621 .B54 1997

Dictionary of Accounting
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5621 .C64 2001

Dictionary of Accounting Terms
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5621 .S54 2000

The History of Accounting : an International Encyclopedia
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5605 .H573 1996

International Accounting and Finance Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5686 .I56 H36 1997

International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF5621 .M677 1998

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Databases & Article Searching

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Academic Search Complete (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts more than 4,000 journals with full text/image to more than 3,200. Highly multidisciplinary, this resource includes social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies. Updated frequently. List of journals. Full Text/Full Image

Academic Universe (UTSA subscription)
Provides abstracts and/or full text to nearly 6,000 titles relating primarily to news, business, and legal information. Includes U.S. and foreign newspapers, wire services, government and political news, company profiles and financial reports, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, accounting and tax information, medical news and abstracts, and state and country profiles. Updated continuously. Full Text

Accounting and Tax (UTSA subscription)
Features cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts to 300 key publications in accounting, auditing, taxation, and financial management from U.S. and international publications, including publications produced by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Also included are citations to relevant articles from over 800 newspapers, business journals, dissertations, and news magazines. Content is from 1990 to the present, but some publications are indexed back to 1971. Full text and/or images are available for more than 200 publications. Updated regularly. Full Text/Full Image

Business & Industry (UTSA subscription)
Focuses on facts, figures, key events, market information and intellectual property information about companies, industries, and products. Draws content from approximately 1,000 US and international trade journals, business dailies, regional, national and international newspapers, and newsletters. Content is from 1994 to the present with more than 75% of the entries available in full text. Updated daily. Full Text

Business and Company Resource Center (UTSA subscription)
Brings together a wide variety of company and industry business information, including company profiles and histories, current and historical stock prices, market share data, industry overviews, brand information, rankings, investment reports including Reuters Research on Demand and Zacks Investment Research Inc., chronologies, and periodical and news articles. Information can be accessed by a variety of search keys including company name/ticker, industry code/description, geographic area, subject, personal name, and journal title. Updated regularly. Full Text

Business Source Complete (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text coverage for over 9,400 general and scholarly business journals and other sources covering marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Also includes full-text business books; case studies; investment research, industry, market research, and country reports; and SWOT analyses. Some coverage begins in 1886. Full Text/Full Image

CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork (UTSA subscription)
Includes full text federal and state tax reporters, explanation and analysis, tax news, and primary source information such as the Internal Revenue Code, federal tax regulations, tax cases, and letter rulings. Full Text

Compustat (UTSA subscription)
Contains up to 20 year history of fundamental financial, statistical, and market data for corporations, banks, S&L's, ADR's/ADS's, business segments, geographic areas, industry composites and indexes in 'North America' as well as 'Global'. Extensive coverage of annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and supplemental data items is provided on publicly traded companies. Includes currency files with cross-translation tables for more than 100 currencies. Particularly useful for advanced quantitative analysis, including database queries, or for quick access to company/industry financial statements and data. Updated quarterly. Full Text

EconLit (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles and books on economics as well as Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Also provides citations for dissertations and articles from collective volumes. Coverage is 1969-present. Updated monthly. Citations Only

FactSearch (UTSA subscription)
Includes citations and abstracts to a variety of publications which contain facts and statistics on current social, economic, environmental and political issues. Includes Library holdings information. Coverage is 1984-present. Updated quarterly. Citations Only

Mergent Online (UTSA subscription)
Provides extensive business and financial data on more than 10,000 NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq companies as well as 11,000 international companies in more than 100 countries. Also provides direct access to EDGAR, the SEC website, which includes all annual, quarterly, and special corporation records. Also included is full text/full image access to current and historical annual reports for select U.S. and international companies. Updated weekly. Full Text/Full Image

Investext Plus (UTSA subscription)
Provides a full-text collection of more than 700,000 current company, product, and industry reports from brokerage firms, investment banks, and trade associations worldwide, as well as fundamental financial information from Moody's Investors Service. Reports are available in the original image formats complete with charts, tables, photographs, and graphics. Coverage is 1996 to the present. Updated weekly. Full Text

MathSciNet (UTSA subscription)
Searchable Web database that provides access to over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present. Full Text

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text (UTSA subscription)
Provides citations and full-image access to doctoral dissertations and master's theses from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities. Abstracts are provided for dissertations beginning in 1980 and for master's theses beginning in 1988. Full-image PDFs are available for most titles published since 1997 and a limited number of titles previous to 1997. Coverage is from 1861 to the present. Print equivalent is Dissertation Abstracts. Citations Only

ProQuest (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to journal articles in a number of databases across all subject areas, with particular strengths in business and the social sciences. Also includes 9 major national newspapers, including Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Complete content of the following databases is included: ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax, Alt-Press Watch, Criminal Justice Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, National Newspapers, and ProQuest Research Library. More than 5,500 titles are indexed and abstracted from at least 1971 to the present. Full text and/or images are available for more than 2,000 titles.

Regional Business News (UTSA subscription)
Offers full-text news reports from global business newswires, including coverage of 75 U.S., Latin American, European, Canadian, and African sources. Reports on economic, business, and political news from these regions, as well as other relevant international events. The most recent 30 days of news is covered. Updated daily. Full Text

RIA Checkpoint (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to primary source materials for federal, state, and local tax laws, such as codes, regulations, current pending/enacted legislation, federal tax cases, IRS rulings, etc. Print equivalents include U.S. Tax Reporter, American Federal Tax Reports, Federal Tax Regulations, Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, State and Local Tax Reporters, and others. Includes Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) documents. Also includes explanations and analyses of tax laws and cases produced by RIA, such as Federal Tax Coordinator, Return Guides, Citator 2nd, Tax Alerts, Journal of Taxation, Journal of Corporate Taxation, RIA Tax Watch, etc. Date Coverage: 1860 - present.   Full Text

Statistical Universe (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to statistical information produced by the U.S. Government. Includes indexing and abstracting from 1973 to the present. Significant full text content from 1995 to the present including Statistical Abstract of the United States. Full Text/Full Image

Stat-USA (UTSA subscription)
Federal government primary site providing sources of economic and international trade data and export promotion information. Full Text/Full Image

TableBase (UTSA subscription)
Specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics. Includes market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends and more. Data is culled from the more than 1000 trade and business publications, privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, government agencies, non-profit research groups, and investment research group industry reports. Content is from 1996 to the present. Updated frequently. Full Text/Full Image

Web of Science (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 8,400 journals from 1975 to the present in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Print equivalents published by The Institute for Scientific Information are Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Citations Only

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Web Resources

Business / Finance Dictionaries:

yourdictionary.com
Free Website: http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction4a.html#finance

Library Spot
Free Website: http://libraryspot.com/dictionaries/businessdictionaries.htm

globalEdge
Free Website: http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/glossary.asp?Index=a

Business Libraries Web Pages:

Academic Business Library Web Pages
Free Website: http://www.lib.washington.edu/business/abl.html
From the Foster Business Library, University of Washington.

Yahoo! Directory of Business Libraries
Free Website: http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/Business_Libraries/

Economic / Industry / Sector / Trade Data:

U.S. Data Sources
Free Website: http://www.econlib.org/library/sourcesUS.html
From EconLib: The Library of Economics and Liberty.

World Data Sources
Free Website: http://www.econlib.org/library/sourcesint.html
From EconLib: The Library of Economics and Liberty.

Yahoo! Finance
Free Website: http://biz.yahoo.com/p/sum_conameu.html

International Trade Administration
Free Website: http://www.ita.doc.gov/

U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook 2000: Industries Uncovered
Free Website: http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/outlook/chapters.html

FDF: Financial Data Finder
Free Website: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/DB_Search/db_search.cgi?setup_file=finance.setup.cgi
From the Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University.

OSU Virtual Finance Library
Free Website: http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/overview.htm
From the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University.

Annual Report Service:

Annual Report Service
Free Website: http://www.annualreportservice.com/
Sponsored by The Public Register's Annual Report Service.

PRARS: The Public Register's Annual Report Service
Free Website: http://www.prars.com/

The Wall Street Journal Online: Annual Report Service
Free Website: http://wsjie.ar.wilink.com/asp/WSJ3_search_eng.asp

@Edgar
Free Website: http://www.atedgar.com/
From QuestNet Corp.

International Business / Financial Exchanges:

Price-Data.com
Free Website: http://www.price-data.com/exchanges.cfm

globalEdge
Free Website: http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp

Accounting Resources on Web:

Accounting Resources on the Internet
Free Website: http://aaahq.org/links.cfm
From Rutger's Accounting Research Center.

Rutgers Accounting Web
Free Website: http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/internet/dis.htm

Accounting Web Resources
Free Website: http://leonardo.bryant.edu/accounting/resources.html
From the Bryant College Accounting Department.

SmartPros
Free Website: http://accounting.smartpros.com/x5149.xml

Accounting Regulatory Bodies:

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory: Accounting Regulatory Bodies
Free Website: http://www.taxsites.com/regulatory.html

International / Federal / State Tax Law:

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory: International Tax
Free Website: http://www.taxsites.com/international.html

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory: Federal Tax Law
Free Website: http://www.taxsites.com/federal.html

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory: State and Local Tax
Free Website: http://www.taxsites.com/state.html

Accounting Organizations / Associations:

Financial Accounting Standards Board
Free Website: http://www.fasb.org/

AICPA - The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Free Website: http://www.aicpa.org/index.htm
"The AICPA is the premier national professional association for CPAs in the U.S.".

NASBA - National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
Free Website: http://www.nasba.org/nasbaweb.nsf/nasbahome/
"NASBA serves as a forum for the 54 U.S. boards of accountancy. NASBA sponsors a variety of programs and services designed to enhance the effectiveness of its member boards. Choose a topic on the left to obtain in-depth information."

American Accounting Association
Free Website: http://aaahq.org/links.cfm

Accounting Associations - USA
Free Website: http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/internet/usassoc.htm

Accounting Associations
Free Website: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/bus/account.html#Associations
Links from the LSU Libraries, Louisiana State University.

Accounting Organizations
Free Website: http://www.uwm.edu/~ceil/accounting/acctorgs.html

Accounting Firms:

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory: Firms and Career Search
Free Website: http://www.taxsites.com/firms.html#employment

Accounting Resources on the Internet
Free Website: http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/internet/internet1.htm

The List of CPA Firms
Free Website: http://www.cpafirms.com/Firmlist/index.cfm

Some Professional Accounting Firms - USA
Free Website: http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/internet/usINDEX.htm

Accounting Scholars / Faculty / Departments:

Accounting Scholars Directory
Free Website: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/acctmis/research/directory.htm
From the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University.

Prentice Hall On-line Accounting Faculty Directory
Free Website: http://rarc.rutgers.edu/hasselback/school.asp

List of Accounting Departments at Other Universities
Free Website: http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/accounting/other.asp#depts
From the Department of Accounting, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin.

Accounting Careers / Jobs:

Accounting Careers
Free Website: http://www.uwm.edu/~ceil/career/jobs/index.html
"The Ultimate Career and College Life Help Page."

Career Bank
Free Website: http://electronicaccountant.careerbank.com/

Accounting / Tax Software:

Hutton Accounting Software
Free Website: http://users.vianet.ca/~hutton/account2.html

Software Packages
Free Website: http://www.uwm.edu/~ceil/accounting/actgsoft.html

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory - Tax Software
Free Website: http://www.taxsites.com/software.html

Finance Journals:

List of Finance Journals
Free Website: http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/journal/jofsites.htm
Website maintained by the Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, The Ohio State University.

Websites for Investors:

Joe F. Rocks!
Free Website: http://www.joefrocks.com/index.htm