Accounting & Finance

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Library Services

Link to Library Home Page

LCSC Journal Title List

Forms for Requesting Materials

Contact a Reference Librarian

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Information Literacy Modules

 

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Company Information

Standard & Poor's Net Advantage - Provides basic financials, stock advisories, and industry analysis for thousands of public companies.

Business and Company Resource Center -   Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.  A Thomson Gale database. Funding-short.gif: Funded By LiLI Graphic

ThomasNet - Comprehensive directory listings for industrial companies, products and services.  Formerly published in paper as the Thomas Register.

Periodicals 

 

 

Academic OneFile - Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.  A Thomson Gale database. Funding-short.gif: Funded By LiLI Graphic

 

ProQuest Newstand database.  Includes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.  Funding-short.gif: Funded By LiLI Graphic

 

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Westlaw - Online legal research service provides quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal resources, as well as current news articles and business information.

 

LegalTrac - Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.  A Thomson Gale database. Funding-short.gif: Funded By LiLI Graphic

 

Google Scholar - A service from Google that provides citations to scholarly journals.

 

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Books   books

LCSC Library Catalog - provides information about the materials owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries, including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho.  Also has a link to WIN Libraries, so you can search Gonzaga, Whitworth, and VALNet Libraries.

Virtual Reference Library - Search a collection on online reference books from Gale, a respected publisher of subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Encyclopedia of business and finance / Burton S. Kaliski, editor-in-chief.

Encyclopedia of privacy / William G. Staples, editor.

Encyclopedia of small business / Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom.

Accounting best practices / Steven M. Bragg.  [This book is not available online.  The actual book is available in the Library at HF5635 .B818 2007.]

Accounting trends and techniques [Latest issue in Reference at : HF5681.B2 A35].

 

WorldCat - A catalog of items held at libraries throughout the world.  Many of these materials can be borrowed through inter-library loan.  This database also provides more in-depth cataloguing to materials owned by LCSC.

Google Books - Info from their Website:  "Just do a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see, like a card catalog entry, some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given us permission through our Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book."  Click on the "About This Book" link and look for a link called "Find This Book in a Library" to locate the nearest library holdings.

 

 

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Accounting:

 

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Pronouncements

 

Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) (state & local government accounting) - Summaries of GASB Statements and Interpretations

 

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board ( FASAB ) Standards

 

 

Idaho State Board of Accountancy

Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants

 

 

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

    (State Chapter pages have links to various state government pages)

    AICPA State Chapter of Idaho

    AICPA State Chapter of Washington

 

Institute of Management Accountants

 

Federation of Tax Administrators

 

Accounting Links (from LSU Libraries)

 

Becker Review Courses for Accounting Students

 

 

 

Finance:

 

Path to investing leading the way to financial knowledge - This website is geared toward informing the user about investing basics, including investment concepts and strategies.

 

Business Plans and Profiles Index - Sample business plans in various industries.  From Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

 

Inc.com - Short, non-scholarly articles on topics of interest to small business owners.

 

 

 

Government:

the White HouseUSA.gov - A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.  Another good source of statistics.

 

 

the Capitol BuildingGPO Access - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government.  Provided by the Government Printing Office. 

 

Thomas - An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.

I-Docs - An online collection of paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government Documents.

 

Standardized Tests:

 

Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.

 

 

Citations:

 

Knight Cite -- An automatic generator of citations in either MLA, APA, or Chicago style.  Registering for the service allows you to save citations to generate a bibliography.  A free service provided by the Hekman Library at Calvin College.

 

APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.

Bibliographies : MLA Format - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.

 

For more websites, see the complete list.

 

 

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Page Author:  Barbara Barnes

Last updated:  January 30, 2008