Websites

The websites listed are not the only websites available for accounting or taxation information. For a complete list of websites recommended by the business librarian, please refer to the master list found in the Recommended Websites section of our business and public management webpages.

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  www.aicpa.org/index.htm
  At the AICPA there are links to the Online Journal of Accountancy, CPA exam information, career resources, accounting standards, accreditations, audit and attest standards, and their annual report.

• CPA Requirements and Registration Instructions by State
  www.gleim.com/accounting/cpa/requirements.php
  This website lists links for the CPA reviews. An interactive map allows you to select certain states and find their CPA requirements. This site also includes international CPA requirements.
  
  

• WebCPA
  www.webcpa.com
  Web CPA provides links to news, publications, and career links. In addition, the site provides some industry rankings—top 100 firms, top 100 people, and top 100 products.

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Reference

The following list of titles may be found in the Business Reference Department of the Spencer Road Branch Library. To locate other print resources on accounting and taxation, please search the library's catalog.

GAAP 2003 Handbook of Policies and Procedures
BR 657.0218 GAAP
Wiley Gaap 2007: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
On Order
These books provide information on generally accepted accounting practices currently in use. The book is broken up in four major sections that are titled Financial Statements, Major Accounting Areas and Reporting, Foreign Operations and Derivative Instruments, and GAAP in Specialized Industries.

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax
BR 336.242 J.K. Lasser's
This annual guide gives simplified information on filing Federal income tax returns.

Bender's Tax Return Manual
BR 336.242 Bender's
This annual book gives detailed tips on how to fill-out Federal tax forms. Exhaustive explanations are given as to the information this is required to complete the forms along with some examples.

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Databases

The library district subscribes to several online databases that may help you with your research. Those with a "Remote Access" button can be used from your home computer with a valid library card.

Following the link to the electronic databases will take you out of the Business & Public Management web pages and into the main library pages. Go to the library's Electronic Databases for Business & Public Management to find the databases purchased specifically to support business services.

For information regarding accounting & taxation, you may want to try ABI/Inform or Business Source Premier. With these databases you can do keyword searching to find articles relevant to your research. You may also limit to only full-text articles.

These are not the only databases available to assist you, please check out the entire list of databases to see if there is something that better meets your needs.

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Catalog

When searching the catalog for books on accounting you may want to do a subject or title keyword search using one or more of the following terms:

accounting corporations accounting home economics accounting managerial accounting small business accounting

Click here to begin searching the library's catalog.
Following the link to the library's catalog will take you out of the Business & Public Management web pages and into the main library pages.

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