Course Guides: Accounting

Courses listed in the General Catalog

• ACCT 2010: Financial Accounting
• ACCT 2020: Managerial Accounting
• ACCT 2210: Intermediate Accounting

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• Printable Guides & Handouts
• Suggested Databases
• Selected E-Book Sources
• Locations of Accounting Resources in the Library
• Selected Books in the Library
• Online Resources
• Research Guides: includes citation help

PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:

• Course Guide Handout-Accounting (PDF)

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SUGGESTED DATABASES:

• Academic Search Complete - Provides full-text articles from more than 5,500 multi-disciplinary, scholarly journals and publications.
• Business Source Complete - Provides full-text articles from nearly 1,200 business-related serials, and from reference works, reports, company profiles and more.
• JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive - Provides a multi-disciplinary archive of scholarly journals and other resources across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
• LexisNexis - Provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources, including legal and law resources.
• Regional Business News - Provides full-text articles from over 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires in the U.S.

Please note that when accessing the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to login.

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SELECTED E-BOOK SOURCES:

• NetLibrary - Provides access to over 59,000 ebooks (electronic copies of printed books, often in PDF format) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. NetLibrary has an easy to use search interface. (You will need a NetLibrary account to access these e-books from off-campus. Please see the tutorial, Accessing & Using NetLibrary for more information.)



• Accountants' Handbook. Vol. 1, Financial Accounting and General Topics, 10th Edition, 2003, by Douglas R. Carmichael.
• Accountants' Handbook. Vol. 2, Special Industries and Special Topics, 10th Edition, 2003, by Douglas R. Carmichael.
• Accounting Best Practices, 2004, by Steven M. Bragg.
• The Controller's Function: The Work of the Managerial Accountant, 3rd Edition, 2004, by Janice M. Roehl-Anderson.
• Great Jobs for Accounting Majors, 2nd Edition, 2005, by Jan Goldberg.


• Google Book Search - Many full-text ebooks in PDF format, free and available to download. Google Book Search has an easy search interface with option to see only full-text titles.

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LOCATIONS OF ACCOUNTING RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY:

Accounting-related topics can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:

• HF5601 to HF5689 - Accounting, bookkeeping.
• HF5691 to HF5716 - Business mathematics, commercial arithmetic.
• HG1 to HG9999 - Finance, including Personal Finance, Money, Banking, etc.

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SELECTED BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY:

• Accountants' Handbook, 9th Edition, 1999.
  Call number: HF 5621 .A22 1999 REF, in 2 volumes.
• Accounting Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide, 2006.
  Call number: HF 5635 .H3347 2006.
• The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Accounting, 1998.
  Call number: HF 5621 .B54 1998 REF.
• The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms, 1998.
  Call number: HF 5621 .M67 1998 REF.
• The Practical Guide to Finance and Accounting, 2001.
  Call number: HG 173 .D73 2001 CD-ROM also available, located in the CD-ROM case, call number: HG 173 .D73 2001 A/V.

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ONLINE RESOURCES:

• Accounting Coach,"AccountingCoach.com provides FREE online educational material to help you learn the accounting concepts practiced in the United States."
• Accounting Terminology Guide,
  from the Web Site of the New York State Society of CPAs.
• American Accounting Association,
  promoting "worldwide excellence in accounting education, research and practice."
• AICPA: The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• FASB: Financial Accounting Standards Board
• Glossary of Financial and Business Terms, from the New York Times on the Web
• Guide to Financial Statements, a tutorial on Financial Statements from Baruch College, City University of New York.

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