Library Home Business:Accounting Information
Composed by Bill Budge/Updated by Anne Bradley
Annual Reports and Financials
Accounting Web Sites
Accounting Standards Taxation - U.S.A. - California
Taxation - International
Periodical Indexes -
(Citations, Abstracts, and Full Text Articles)
Alpha List of Accounting, Auditing, & Taxation
e-Journals/Databases

Annual Reports on the Web

  • Annual Report Gallery - URL: www.reportgallery.com Provides links to approximately 10,000 annual reports which have been published on the web.
  • Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR - http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm/ - SEC filing forms including 10K and 10K/A.
  • Older Annual Reports on Microfiche - The Library has a large annual report collection in microfiche called the Q-File Collection. The collection includes reports from 1978 to 1998 and is located in the microform cabinets labeled SEC. Both 10-K's, annual reports, and proxy statements are included. A paper index (binder & books marked SEC File) is in the Ready Reference section behind the 2nd floor Central Reference Desk.
  • LexisNexis Academic Universe - Contains SEC filings and Disclosure file (PATH:Business, Company Financial Information, Source List, Disclosure. - Access for current CSUS faculty, staff and students only.
  • see also the "Annual Report Section" of Budge's Guide to Company Information - URL: http://www.lib.csus/guides/bradleya/company3.htm#wwwfin.

Accounting Standards

  • FASB Website - URL: http://www.fasb.org/ - official web site of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Full text of Statements and Pronouncements as well as summaries are now available here! However, "Statements are presented as originally issued. There is no shading or sidebars to indicate amendments made by subsequent pronouncements." A good place to keep aware of accounting news and recently released or forthcoming pronouncements.
  • International Accounting Standards Board - URL: www.iasb.org - Title listing with numbers of International Accounting Standards (IASs) and Interpretations with order and price information. Exposure Drafts, publications and current news.
  • Government Accounting Standards Board - URL: http://www.gasb.org - Provides summaries of standards for guiding the preparation of external financial reports by state and local government entities.
  • AICPA [American Institute of Certified Public Accountants] - URL: www.aicpa.org/ - links to CPA sites and State Accounting Information. not a source for AICPA Accounting Research Bulletins.
  • Financial Executives Institute - URL: www.fei.org - publishes Corporate Reporting Action which quarterly reports on accounting/reporting standards, proposals, and developments that impact corporate financial reporting.




Taxation - U.S.A. & California

  • RIA Checkpoint - RIA Checkpoint is a comprehensive research system for Federal income tax matters. It Contains the Federal Tax Coordinator and the U.S. Tax Reporter: Income, Estate, Gift & Excise Tax Analysis. The system includes the Internal Revenue Code (1954-current), IRS Revenue Rulings & Procedures (1954-current), Treasury Regulations, Tax Court case law (1860-current), Letter Rulings, and Citator (1954-current). Access for current CSUS faculty, staff and students only.
  • BNA Tax Management Portfolios - Expert Analysis - more than 280 Portfolios written by nearly 1,000 of the nation's leading tax authorities cover U.S. Income; Estates, Gifts and Trusts; and Foreign Income. Primary Sources - Interactive IRS Forms and State Forms, Full text of the IRC, Final, Temporary, and Proposed Regulations, IRS Documents. Practice Tools - Hundreds of model documents, Sample plans, Checklists, Elections, Other practice aids. Access for current CSUS faculty, staff and students only.News and Developments -Tax Management Weekly Report, The Memorandum -, Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal, Tax Management International Journal. Access for current CSUS faculty, staff and students only.
  • Tax and Accounting Sites Directory - URL: http://www.taxsites.com/ - Comprehensive and Up-to-date. Under the heading Tax Sites find:Tax Topics, Federal Tax Law, State & Local Tax, International Tax, Tax Forms & Pubs, Tax Software, Guides-Tips-Help, Tax Updates, IRS Pages, Tax Associations,Policy & Reform, Tax Centers, Tax Jobs, Publishers & CPE, Tax Discussions , Academia Finance & Investing ,Firms & Careers, Tax Bookstore, and Web Search. Under the heading Accounting Sites find: Financial Reporting, Auditing & Fraud, Managerial, Gov. & NFP, International, Information Systems, Software, AICPA Pages, Regulatory Bodies, Associations, Certification, Academia, On-Line News, Government & Data, Publishers & CPE, Firms & Careers, Accounting Jobs, and Web Search.
  • U.S. Tax Code Online
  • California State Tax Forms - URL: www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/
  • IRS Tax Forms - URL: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs/index.html
  • State Tax Forms (all states) - URL: www.lib.lsu.edu/govdocs/taxes.html
  • Taxes at UIC - URL:http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/documents/resources/tax99/index.shtml - "The University of Illinois at Chicago presents this helpful guide to Internet tax information. In addition to the "tax basics" of tax terminology and federal and state electronic forms, Taxes at UIC also offers sources for tax law research, tax history, revenue statistics, and "tax trivia" -- a list of unusual taxable goods." Internet Scout Report. [MW]


Taxation - International


  • Tax Notes International - Printed Monthly periodical and current awareness service for international accounting and accounting standards. World wide coverage. Located on the 3rd floor South Periodicals. Also available online in LexisNexis.
  • Transnational Accounting - Ref HF5626/T72/2001 v.1-3 - comparisons of the accounting and reporting practices in 19 industrialized countries and the European Union plus those of the International Accounting Standards Committee. Has a useful reference matrix for easy comparison of key practices by country.
  • The International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation - www.ibfd.nl/ - An independent, not-for-profit, Amsterdam-based organization active on a worldwide scale in the field of tax research, information and education. Offers an International Glossary of Tax Terms.
  • World Bank Web page on Tax Policy and Administration - URL: www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/tax/
  • LawResearch Tax - URL: www.lawresearch.com/v2/dbtax8a.htm#TOA - database on world taxes with a long list of links.
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Accounting Web Sites

  • Accounting Resources on the Internet - URL: http://raw.rutgers.edu/raw/internet/internet1.htm - The BEST, FIRST place to start a general accounting search.
  • American Accounting Association - URL: http://aaahq.org/index.cfm
  • AccountingNet - URL: www.accountingnet.com/ - is the complete online resource for accounting professionals.
  • Accountant Finder - URL: www.cpafinder.com/ - find a local accountant in a specialized field, i.e., cpa, insolvency accountants, etc.
  • AuditNet Resource List - URL: www.auditnet.org/karl.htm
  • United States General Accounting Office - URL: www.gao.gov/ - "The General Accounting Office is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress. GAO exists to support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the American people."
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Periodical Indexes, Abstracts, and Full Text Articles

  • Accountant & Tax Index is the major paper index to accounting literature (2 North Index Table HFZ 7164 .C81 A281).
  • Accounting and Auditing Literature on LexisNexis Academic Universe - Authorization Required.
  • ABI/INFORM GLOBAL - Index to Full Text articles from business periodicals including many in accounting and auditing. - Authorization Required.
  • Business Source Premier - Provides scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for peer-reviewed business publications. Covers all business subjects including accounting.
  • FACTIVA - indexing and full text access to over 8,000 periodicals (business newsletters, academic journals in accounting, national magazines, trade publications, business news wires, and major news papers.) with considerable depth in coverage. Valuable resource for accountants. Authorization Required.
  • Cal-Tax Articles & Research Library - articles from the Cal-Tax digest focused on California featuring analysis and commentary on important public finance topics by Cal-Tax staff, political leaders, and policy experts.
  • see also the Finding Articles on the World Wide Web Section portion of the Guide to Company Information. URL: http://library.csus.edu/guides/bradleya/company.htm#wwwart - These are sites on the Internet which index and/or list business periodicals whose articles may may be downloadable for FREE or A SMALL CHARGE using a credit card.



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