Accounting and Tax Resources

Accounting and Tax Resources Guide

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Penrose Library owns a variety of print and electronic resources to use when researching your topics. The following are a few core tools to help you begin your research process. The Penrose Library Homepage is located at http://www.penlib.du.edu.

Library Catalog

Peak - The Library Catalog
Books, Periodical Titles, Videos and Other Cataloged Materials.
This is the Penrose library catalog: Your search will help you locate materials owned by Penrose Library, including books, magazines, and other cataloged materials. A great way to find periodicals in accounting is to do the following keyword search: accounting and periodicals.

Web-based Resources - To access other business-related databases, go to the Penrose Home Page, Click on E-Resources, and select Business and Economics as your category.

To access remotely using an Internet Service Provider other than DU (such as AOL, ATT, Earthlink, etc.), just click on a database and enter your name and DU ID # when prompted. If you have any problems contact the circulation desk at 303-871-3424 to verify that you are a library registered user.

ABI/Inform
This database is no longer available. Use Business Source Premier and/or General Business File ASAP instead.

Academic Universe
See LexisNexis Academic below.

Business Source Premier
Full-Text Resource: Full-text and full-content available online. Provides full text for over 2,710 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Updated daily.

FISonline Company Information. Provides 10,000+ U.S. and 12,000+ International public company information, includes financials back ten years and company histories. Multi-image formats for annual reports of thousands of currently traded public companies going back to 1996. Use Advanced Search for peer analysis among companies in the same industry.

General Business File ASAP
1995-Present with backfile 1980-1994. Periodical Article Index: Some full-text and full-content text available online. Business Periodical Article Index, Company Profiles, and Investext: Covers about 1000 business publications, including the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Full-text provided to over 450 titles. Use this database to find articles on: finance, acquisitions & mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies & products, local & regional business trends, investments and banking. Includes links to Company Profiles, and to about 40% of the Investext database which provides investment bankers reports for companies and various industries. Updated monthly.

LexisNexis Academic
Full-Text Resource: Full-text and full-content available online. A rich resource of domestic and international news, accounting, company, legal, and regulatory information.

ReferenceUSA Company Directory. Directory of over 10 million U.S. private and public companies. Provides addresses, contact names, estimates sales and employee figures. Ability to search by yellow page heading, SIC code, geography, and size of business.

Wall Street Journal

Full-Text Database: Full-text articles from 1986- . There is a one-day lag.

Accounting Indexes in Print

Reference Tax
Z7164.C81 A52 Accounting & Tax Index1992-present; Accountants Index 1986-1991.
Indexes books, pamphlets, government documents, and journal articles in accounting and related fields. Includes information on accounting standards and tax regulations.

Reference Tax
Z 7164.C81.C78 Accounting Articles
From Commerce Clearing House, this source provides abstracts to accounting articles published in accounting and business periodicals, books, and pamphlets.

Reference Tax
Z 7165 .T23 C65 Federal Tax Articles
From Commerce Clearing House, this source describes and indexes federal tax articles published in legal, accounting tax and other periodicals.

Sources of Accounting Standards and Practices

Reference
HF5681 .B2 .A35 Accounting Trends & Techniques
Published by the AICPA, this source is a compilation of data from surveys of hundreds of annual reports. This source helps to identify accounting trends and illustrates techniques used.

Reference
HF5667 .A5487 Codification of Statements on Auditing Standards
This source provides information issued by the Auditing Standards Board (the AICPA's senior technical body on auditing matters). It includes current effective statements on auditing standards, with superseded portions deleted and amendments included and related auditing interpretations.

See Peak - The Library Catalog for call numbers Financial Accounting Series
This is a series published by the Federal Accounting Standards Board. Each publication has a separate title focusing on standards on a certain accounting topic. To locate in Penrose Library, search Peak - The Library Catalog under the title if you know it. If not, do a title search using "Financial accounting series" to retrieve a list of the different items in the series.

Reference
HF516 .U5 F5185 Proposed Interpretation
From FASB, this source offers proposed guidelines on certain financial accounting and reporting issue. Also part of the "Financial Accounting Series."

Sources of U.S. Tax Law

Reference Tax
T 22.25 Internal Revenue Bulletin
From the Internal Revenue Service, this is a weekly publication issuing current announcements from the IRS. All items of a permanent nature are consolidated in: Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletin, located in Reference Tax, CLNO: KF 6301 A4 U23.

Reference Tax
JU11.7 Reports of the United States Tax Court
From the United States Tax Court, this is the official source of Tax Court decisions. This title consists of a multi-volume set of volumes. It cumulates a monthly publication called: United States. Tax Court. Reports, which Penrose Library also receives.

Reference Tax
KF 6324 .A5 C64 Standard Federal Tax Reporter
Published by CCH, this is a multi-volume tax guide to the Internal Revenue Code. Includes basic information on the code, regulations, and judicial decisions. Updates include Extra editions focusing on different aspects of the code and Taxes on parade. Penrose keeps the current edition only of all of these items.

Accounting and Tax Directories and Dictionaries

Reference
HF5628.C54 1995 CIFAR's global register of the leading international accounting firms
A directory of international accounting firms and their audit clients.

Reference
HF5621.D53 1995 Dictionary of Accounting
Published by Oxford University Press, this dictionary provides a description of commonly used terms in financial accounting and reporting, management accounting, taxation, treasury management, and financial management.

Ready Reference
HG4057
.A22 Directory of Corporate Affiliations
Contains over 120,000 public/private companies. Lists parent companies and US and international subsidiaries. Indexes include company names, geographic location, SIC and personnel. Has separate international volume.

Reference
HF5601 .E446 Emerson's Directory of Leading US Accounting Firms
A directory of 500 of the largest accounting firms inthe United States. Includes address, leadership information, primary industries served, primary consulting services offered, and a history of the firm.

Reference
HF5621 .M677 1998 International dictionary of accounting acronyms
Interprets approximately 2,000 accounting and related acronyms currently being used in various areas, including business and management, banking, economics, and real estate.

Reference
HF5616. U5 W568 Who audits America
Published by Data Financial Press, this is a directory of publicly traded companies and the accounting firms who audit them.

Public Company Information

The sources listed below are print resources located in the Penrose Library.

Consulting Table Mergents Manuals (formerly Moody's manuals)
Company financial information compiled from 10Ks and annual reports. Includes history, description, list of officers and basic financial data. Also available on the web via FISonline to DU faculty and students.

Consulting Table
HG4501.S7663 S&P Corporation Records
Company information compiled from 10Qs and other SEC filings. Includes most current information on financial data, management changes, etc. Updated semimonthly. Also available on the web via Standard & Poor's NETADVANTAGE to DU faculty and students.

Microfiche SEC-Filings
The library has company 10Ks and annual reports on microfiche beginning with 1978.

World Wide Web Sources

American Accounting
Association http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/aaa/
This Association strives for worldwide excellence in accounting education, research and practice. Provides links to different topics in accounting (i.e., Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations, Management Accounting, etc.), faculty development, and accounting organizations.

AICPA Online http://www.aicpa.org/
This site from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides AICPA news-related links, CPA related links.

Barron's Annual Reports Service http://barronsonline.ar.wilink.com/asp/BAR5_search_eng.asp
Free access to company annual reports for over 20 industries.

BusinessWeek Online http://www.businessweek.com
BusinessWeek's Home Page. Provides many of the articles for the current issue as well as links to past issues. Full text articles are also available through Business Source Premier via the Penrose Library Home page E-resources link.

CCH http://www.cch.com/
The is the Commerce Clearing House's home page. The company tracks, explains and analyzes tax and business related law. Access to key portions require a subscription.

FASB http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/fasb/
Financial Accounting Standards Board website.

GASB http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/gasb/
Website for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, which establishes and improves standards of state and local governmental accounting and financial reporting.

Hoover's Online http://www.hoovers.com
Links to more than 5,000 corporate web sites and offers 2,700 private and public company profiles. Subscription required to obtain access to all the profiles.

IRS http://www.irs.gov/
Home page for the U.S. Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service.

PRARS annual reports http://www.prars.com/
Access to over 3,600 public company annual reports. Provided by The Public Register's Annual Report Service.

Rutger's Accounting Web http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/
The is an extensive accounting website from the Rutger's University Accounting Department. Provides links to Accounting firms in USA and around the world, CPA associations worldwide, and other accounting resources on the internet.

SEC EDGAR Database http://www.sec.gov/edaux/searches.htm
Access to corporate electronic filings submitted to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) as required by publicly-traded companies. Includes companies' 10-Ks, 10-Qs, etc.

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory http://www.taxsites.com/
Access to numerous tax and accounting sites, including IRS pages, state and local tax sites, and association lists.

U.S. Tax Code Online http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html
Provides access to the complete text of the United States Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 of the U.S. Code(26 USC).

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Esther L. Gil, Assistant Professor
Business and Economics Reference Librarian
Home Page: http://www.du.edu/~egil
Office hours: By appointment
Campus telephone: (303) 871-3412
Email: egil@du.edu
Copyright 2000 University of Denver, Penrose Library, August 27, 2002

Library Catalog
Peak - The Library Catalog	Books, Periodical Titles, Videos and Other Cataloged Materials. This is the Penrose library catalog: Your search will help you locate materials owned by Penrose Library, including books, magazines, and other cataloged materials. A great way to find periodicals in accounting is to do the following keyword search: accounting and periodicals.
Web-based Resources - To access other business-related databases, go to the Penrose Home Page, Click on E-Resources, and select Business and Economics as your category.
To access remotely using an Internet Service Provider other than DU (such as AOL, ATT, Earthlink, etc.), just click on a database and enter your name and DU ID # when prompted. If you have any problems contact the circulation desk at 303-871-3424 to verify that you are a library registered user.
ABI/Inform	This database is no longer available. Use Business Source Premier and/or General Business File ASAP instead.
Academic Universe	See LexisNexis Academic* below.*
Business Source Premier	Full-Text Resource: Full-text and full-content available online. Provides full text for over 2,710 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Updated daily.
FISonline	Company Information. Provides 10,000+ U.S. and 12,000+ International public company information, includes financials back ten years and company histories. Multi-image formats for annual reports of thousands of currently traded public companies going back to 1996. Use Advanced Search for peer analysis among companies in the same industry.
General Business File ASAP 1995-Present with backfile 1980-1994.	Periodical Article Index: Some full-text and full-content text available online. Business Periodical Article Index, Company Profiles, and Investext: Covers about 1000 business publications, including the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Full-text provided to over 450 titles. Use this database to find articles on: finance, acquisitions & mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies & products, local & regional business trends, investments and banking. Includes links to Company Profiles, and to about 40% of the Investext database which provides investment bankers reports for companies and various industries. Updated monthly.
LexisNexis Academic	Full-Text Resource: Full-text and full-content available online. A rich resource of domestic and international news, accounting, company, legal, and regulatory information.
ReferenceUSA	Company Directory. Directory of over 10 million U.S. private and public companies. Provides addresses, contact names, estimates sales and employee figures. Ability to search by yellow page heading, SIC code, geography, and size of business.
Wall Street Journal	Full-Text Database: Full-text articles from 1986- . There is a one-day lag.
Accounting Indexes in Print

Reference Tax Z7164.C81 A52	Accounting & Tax Index1992-present; Accountants Index 1986-1991. Indexes books, pamphlets, government documents, and journal articles in accounting and related fields. Includes information on accounting standards and tax regulations.

Reference Tax Z 7164.C81.C78	Accounting Articles From Commerce Clearing House, this source provides abstracts to accounting articles published in accounting and business periodicals, books, and pamphlets.

Reference Tax Z 7165 .T23 C65	Federal Tax Articles From Commerce Clearing House, this source describes and indexes federal tax articles published in legal, accounting tax and other periodicals.
Sources of Accounting Standards and Practices
Reference HF5681 .B2 .A35	Accounting Trends & Techniques Published by the AICPA, this source is a compilation of data from surveys of hundreds of annual reports. This source helps to identify accounting trends and illustrates techniques used.
Reference HF5667 .A5487	Codification of Statements on Auditing Standards This source provides information issued by the Auditing Standards Board (the AICPA's senior technical body on auditing matters). It includes current effective statements on auditing standards, with superseded portions deleted and amendments included and related auditing interpretations.
See Peak - The Library Catalog for call numbers	Financial Accounting Series This is a series published by the Federal Accounting Standards Board. Each publication has a separate title focusing on standards on a certain accounting topic. To locate in Penrose Library, search Peak - The Library Catalog under the title if you know it. If not, do a title search using "Financial accounting series" to retrieve a list of the different items in the series.
Reference HF516 .U5 F5185	Proposed Interpretation From FASB, this source offers proposed guidelines on certain financial accounting and reporting issue. Also part of the "Financial Accounting Series."
Sources of U.S. Tax Law
Reference Tax T 22.25	Internal Revenue Bulletin From the Internal Revenue Service, this is a weekly publication issuing current announcements from the IRS. All items of a permanent nature are consolidated in: Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletin, located in Reference Tax, CLNO: KF 6301 A4 U23.
Reference Tax JU11.7	Reports of the United States Tax Court From the United States Tax Court, this is the official source of Tax Court decisions. This title consists of a multi-volume set of volumes. It cumulates a monthly publication called: United States. Tax Court. Reports, which Penrose Library also receives.
Reference Tax KF 6324 .A5 C64	Standard Federal Tax Reporter Published by CCH, this is a multi-volume tax guide to the Internal Revenue Code. Includes basic information on the code, regulations, and judicial decisions. Updates include Extra editions focusing on different aspects of the code and Taxes on parade. Penrose keeps the current edition only of all of these items.
Accounting and Tax Directories and Dictionaries
Reference HF5628.C54 1995	CIFAR's global register of the leading international accounting firms A directory of international accounting firms and their audit clients.
Reference HF5621.D53 1995	Dictionary of Accounting Published by Oxford University Press, this dictionary provides a description of commonly used terms in financial accounting and reporting, management accounting, taxation, treasury management, and financial management.
Ready Reference HG4057 .A22	Directory of Corporate Affiliations Contains over 120,000 public/private companies. Lists parent companies and US and international subsidiaries. Indexes include company names, geographic location, SIC and personnel. Has separate international volume.
Reference HF5601 .E446	Emerson's Directory of Leading US Accounting Firms A directory of 500 of the largest accounting firms inthe United States. Includes address, leadership information, primary industries served, primary consulting services offered, and a history of the firm.
Reference HF5621 .M677 1998	International dictionary of accounting acronyms Interprets approximately 2,000 accounting and related acronyms currently being used in various areas, including business and management, banking, economics, and real estate.
Reference HF5616. U5 W568	Who audits America Published by Data Financial Press, this is a directory of publicly traded companies and the accounting firms who audit them.
Public Company Information
The sources listed below are print resources located in the Penrose Library.
Consulting Table	Mergents Manuals (formerly Moody's manuals) Company financial information compiled from 10Ks and annual reports. Includes history, description, list of officers and basic financial data. Also available on the web via FISonline to DU faculty and students.
Consulting Table HG4501.S7663	S&P Corporation Records Company information compiled from 10Qs and other SEC filings. Includes most current information on financial data, management changes, etc. Updated semimonthly. Also available on the web via Standard & Poor's NETADVANTAGE to DU faculty and students.
Microfiche	SEC-Filings The library has company 10Ks and annual reports on microfiche beginning with 1978.
World Wide Web Sources
American Accounting Association	http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/aaa/ This Association strives for worldwide excellence in accounting education, research and practice. Provides links to different topics in accounting (i.e., Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations, Management Accounting, etc.), faculty development, and accounting organizations.
AICPA Online	http://www.aicpa.org/ This site from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides AICPA news-related links, CPA related links.
Barron's Annual Reports Service	http://barronsonline.ar.wilink.com/asp/BAR5_search_eng.asp Free access to company annual reports for over 20 industries.
BusinessWeek Online	http://www.businessweek.com BusinessWeek's Home Page. Provides many of the articles for the current issue as well as links to past issues. Full text articles are also available through Business Source Premier via the Penrose Library Home page E-resources link.
CCH	http://www.cch.com/ The is the Commerce Clearing House's home page. The company tracks, explains and analyzes tax and business related law. Access to key portions require a subscription.
FASB	http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/fasb/ Financial Accounting Standards Board website.
GASB	http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/gasb/ Website for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, which establishes and improves standards of state and local governmental accounting and financial reporting.
Hoover's Online	http://www.hoovers.com Links to more than 5,000 corporate web sites and offers 2,700 private and public company profiles. Subscription required to obtain access to all the profiles.
IRS	http://www.irs.gov/ Home page for the U.S. Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service.
PRARS annual reports	http://www.prars.com/ Access to over 3,600 public company annual reports. Provided by The Public Register's Annual Report Service.
Rutger's Accounting Web	http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/ The is an extensive accounting website from the Rutger's University Accounting Department. Provides links to Accounting firms in USA and around the world, CPA associations worldwide, and other accounting resources on the internet.
SEC EDGAR Database	http://www.sec.gov/edaux/searches.htm Access to corporate electronic filings submitted to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) as required by publicly-traded companies. Includes companies' 10-Ks, 10-Qs, etc.
Tax and Accounting Sites Directory	http://www.taxsites.com/ Access to numerous tax and accounting sites, including IRS pages, state and local tax sites, and association lists.
U.S. Tax Code Online	http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html Provides access to the complete text of the United States Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 of the U.S. Code(26 USC).