Research Guides: Business Research Guide: Accounting

Resources for Accounting

Databases:

Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection This link opens in a new window
This database contains scholarly journals and other key resources for information about the financial services industry, including accounting, tax, banking, and industry trends.
Checkpoint This link opens in a new window
Access includes tax and financial research content: editorial, news, primary source material, and legislation. Includes remote access for 35 concurrent users.
Wharton Research Data Services This link opens in a new window
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Includes AuditAnalytics, detailed research on over 150,000 active audits and more than 10,000 accounting firms. Graduate students and faculty can request access, undergraduates can access if a faculty member establishes a class account.

Websites:

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
AICPA Standards and Statements.
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Issues Financial Accounting Standards.
Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)
Issues Governmental Accounting Standards.
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
Issues International Financial Reporting Standards.
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
Issues Accounting Standards for audits of issuing firms.
SEC - Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases
Links to financial reporting related enforcement actions concerning civil lawsuits brought by the Commission in federal court and notices and orders concerning the institution and/or settlement of administrative proceedings.
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
"Yellow Book” of generally accepted government auditing standards.