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Accounting Commerce Business research resources - University of Adelaide Library

Accounting Guide

books & journals
[print & electronic]

These web guides include materials purchased by the Library (print and electronic)and Internet resources.
All Internet resources selected for this guide offer some free research information.

General Accounting Resources

CPA Australia-
See Technical Resources section for resources and tools related to tax, audit, corporate governance, financial planning and reporting. The student page is also very good.

Financial Reporting - ASIC  (Australian Securities & Investment Com.)
Information on government regulations. Includes, Managed investment schemes.

Australian Accounting Review -(journal subscription). This journal is indexed in the E-Library (fulltext) database.  The Library also has access from Wiley publishers (2008+) - see their email, or RSS, alerting options for automatic update to the contents of the latest issue. It is also indexed in the APA-FT  and VALISE .

Accountancy web guide by Intute: Social Sciences Copyright © 2008
Has links to many accountancy web sites. Resources have been evaluated by subject specialists based at UK universities. The target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education.

Accountingweb (student zone)- Copyright © 2007 AccountingWEB
American  - Commercial but some free information is free.  See the Links section.

BUBL WWW subject: Accounting
Annotated list of accountanting sites and other resources from around the world.

International Federation of Accountants- © IFAC
Access to thousands of articles, management tools and good practice guidance developed for accountants in business by IFAC and more than a dozen professional accountancy organizations worldwide.

Scholarly peer reviewed journal articles in Business Source Complete database. See this sample result for articles published after 2003:
accounting n2 theor*     or search for a topic such as:
You can narrow search result by adding a keyword with the and command:
  - Example: accounting n2 theor* and (account* n3 crim* OR account* n3 fraud*)

Professional Accountancy Organisations Worldwide     - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

(Rutgers) Accounting Resources on the internet  - Rutgers Accounting Web site
Includes professional associations, fims as well as links to standards ( international and American) and interpretations, finance institutions, software, taxation etc. with links to many information servers.

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Accounting Standards

Scholarly peer reviewed articles in Business Source Complete database published after January 2000. Search result for:
SU accounting standard* and australia*
or  SU accounting standard* and "financial statement*" and australia*

Australian Accounting Standards Board
Link to national and international bodies, Explanatory Statements, Regulatory Impact Statements, Pronouncements with Table of Interpretations.

International Accounting Standards Board
The International Accounting Standards Board, an independent accounting standard-setter based in London, UK.  

Links - Financial Reporting Council - © Commonwealth of Australia 2005
A wonderful site with links to national and international bodies worldwide. Plus Auditing page.

International Federation of Accountants- © IFAC
See "Standard Setting" in the left hand frame. Provides access management tools and good practice guidance developed by IFAC and professional accountancy organizations worldwide.

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Auditing

Auditing & Fraud - © 1995-2007 AccountantsWorld, LLC
An American commercial website that may have some useful information.

CPA Australia - Audit
Includes news, tools, standards, resources and articles. Has a Search box.

Global capital markets and the global economy (report):  (pdf)
A vision of the CEO's of the International Audit Networks - November 2006.
This paper expected to be the beginning of a robust dialogue about how global financial reporting and public company auditing procedures must adapt to better serve capital markets around the world.

Third Party Auditing tools - Business Software Association (Australia)
Provides links to 8 different products that you can trial.

Scholarly peer reviewed articles in Business Source Complete database. Example of a search for articles published after 01/2003 : SU audit*
Narrow this result by adding an additional keyword
  - Example: SU audit* and australia*

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Taxation

 

Australian Taxation Office  - © Commonwealth of Australia
Extensively indexed - search either via the left hand frame or the search box.

Taxation - © 1997-2007 CPA Australia Ltd
Has lists of Resources, tools, ATO rulings, news and articles.

Taxation -  © National Institute of Accountants [Australia]  
A mixture of links to a range of Australian and overseas resources.

TaxSites  (American) © 1995-2008 AccountantsWorld, LLC
The International page has this list of tax web sites by country.

Scholarly peer reviewed articles in Business Source Complete database. Search result for:
SU tax* and SU australia
Or narrow the result by adding another key word
SU tax* and SU australia and "capital gains"

 

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Software

Products and prices change daily, you should confirm the information contained in these sites with other sources before relying on any data.

Find Accounting Software  © 2007, CPA Online and Find Accounting Software are trademarks of Inphinet Interactive Communications, Inc. Information on a broad List of products

Accounting software world / © 1996 - 2008  Accounting Software World,K2 Enterprises.
A list of available products - use a search engine to find more detail on a particular product.

Accounting Software - DMOZ open directory project .

 

Books & Journals

The following is a small sample of the Libraries resources, you should also try a Keyword search in the catalogue for your topic.

Library Catalogue - Subject Heading search for Commerce:-
Click a link below then browse the list (see also previous and next buttons) when you click on a Subject Heading a list of titles is displayed.

Accounting          Accounting standards
Auditing
Financial statements
Managerial accounting
Taxation      Income tax      Corporations taxation

 

Use the Sort by:  drop down list to display most recently published records first.

Click on Headings again to go back to the list of Subject Headings.

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Updated: 22nd June, 2009 Bernadine Hardin