Guides: Accounting: Key resources

Accounting Librarian

David Taine

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Databases

ProQuest Accounting, Tax, and Banking Collection
High quality, scholarly journal articles covering accounting, tax, auditing, and banking.
Business Source Elite
Scholarly journal articles about business and management including a wide range of accounting content.
Tutorial which overviews searching the database by publication, using the thesaurus and finding company profiles (YouTube)

Find Content in Business Source Databases to Support Strategic Analysis, discover content that will support PESTLE, SWOT, and Porter’s Five Forces analyses

Business Source - Advanced Searching on EBSCOhost tutorial. (YouTube)
WRDS
Security prices, stock indices, bond prices, macroeconomic information, and company financials. Includes the Compustat dataset.
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Books

An Introduction to Accounting: Accountability in Organisations and Society by Craig Deegan
ISBN: 9780170460194

Publication Date: 2022

Brings together corporate accountability, sustainability, and social responsibility.
Taxation: a Very Short Introduction by Stephen Smith
ISBN: 0199683697

Publication Date: 2015

Shows how taxes have real effects on citizens and the economy that tax policy-makers have to balance.
Accounting for fun and profit : a guide to understanding advanced topics in accounting by Lawrence A. Weiss
ISBN: 1631575139

Publication Date: 2016

Explains how the user of financial statement should interpret advanced accounting techniques presented, and helps the user conduct in-depth analysis of annual reports

Journals

Journals can be used to browse the academic literature and keep up with the newest developments in the field. Some of the top accounting journals are:

Journal of Accounting and Economics
Applies economic theory to the explanation of accounting phenomena, covering a wide range of methodologies and topics.
Journal of Accounting Research
Original research in all areas of accounting and related fields that utilizes tools from basic disciplines such as economics, statistics, psychology, and sociology.
Accounting Review
Premier journal for publishing articles reporting the results of accounting research and explaining and illustrating related research methodology.
Review of Accounting Studies
Provides an outlet for significant academic research in accounting including theoretical, empirical, and experimental work
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Publishes theoretical and empirical research in financial economics. Topics include corporate finance, investments, capital and security markets, and quantitative methods of particular relevance to financial researchers.

Use these journal quality lists to browse for top journals in your area of research:

ABDC Journal Quality List
List of top journals, ranked from A* to C, from the Australian Business Deans Council.
Harzing Journal Quality List
List of top journals in Business and Management, pooling information from several different metrics and organisations.

Standards

These resources provide comprehensive information and guidance on accounting standards.

External Reporting Board (XRB)
XRB website containing information on New Zealand accounting standards. Many standards are available as downloadable PDFs.
Financial Reporting Act 2013
Link to the Financial Reporting Act 2013 online (New Zealand legislation).
International Accounting Standards Board
Visit the website of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation.