Accounting Resources for Business
- Finding Journal and Newspaper Articles
- Accounting Standards
- Information Gateways and Web Sites
- Organisations
Finding Journal and Newspaper Articles
To search for articles from a range of journals you should do a keyword search using the electronic databases. The main databases you will need are:
ABI Inform/Proquest
Contains abstracts and full-text from over 3040 business, management and trade journals. The index for many journals goes back to 1970. Many of the full text articles are available from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Access On-Campus
Access Off-Campus
Off-campus use of ABI/INFORM Global (Proquest)
To access ABI/INFORM Global off-campus, your Cardiff University network username and password will be required.
EBSCO Business Source Premier
Features the full text of over 3,600 publications including scholarly journals, trade publications and popular business magazines. It covers subjects such as:
- accounting
- banking
- finance
- international business
- management
- marketing
- regional studies
- sales and trade
- technology
Titles include Business Week, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist and hundreds of peer- reviewed journals. The database also provides company profiles, EIU country economic reports, and DataMonitor market reports.
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Access Off-Campus
Off-campus use of EBSCO
To access EBSCO off-campus, your Cardiff University network username and password will be required.
IngentaConnect
IngentaConnect is the new name for Ingenta and Ingenta Select.
This service gives access to over 28,000 academic and trade journals across a wide range of subject areas. Please note that full text access is only available where Cardiff University has a subscription to the journal title.
Access On-Campus
Access Off-Campus
To access IngentaConnect off-campus, your Cardiff University network username and password will be required.
Nexis
From the first page, click to accept the Terms and Conditions to proceed to the database.
A comprehensive newspaper database, updated daily, providing full text access to all UK national newspapers, plus regional newspapers, international news providers and a number of trade journals and magazines. Most titles have a twenty year archive. UK newspaper titles include:
- Financial Times
- Daily Mail / Mail on Sunday
- Independent / Independent on Sunday
- Guardian / Observer
- Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph
- Daily Mirror / Sunday Mirror
- London Evening Standard
- The Scotsman / Scotland on Sunday
In addition, 2300 international news providers are covered including The International Herald Tribune, The New Yorker, USA Today, India Today and the Japan Times.
The database also includes company data. Annual Reports are available for UK quoted companies as well as selected European, Asian and US companies. Financial information is provided by Extel Cards and Worldscope and the Directory of Directors provides details of 45,700 directors of UK Companies. Please be aware that this resource will only run on a Windows PC.
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Access Off-Campus
Off-campus use of Nexis UK
To access Nexis UK off-campus, your Cardiff University network username and password will be required.
ScienceDirect
Access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with titles from a number of other publishers and societies. Most titles are available in full text from 1995. The collection covers a wide range of scientific disciplines, including social sciences.
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Access Off-Campus
Off-campus use of ScienceDirect
To access ScienceDirect off-campus, your Cardiff University network username and password will be required.
You can access a complete list of databases from the Business, Economics and Transport Databases Page.
Finding References
Some information sources called abstracts or indexes will only provide a summary or bibliographical details of an article. You will then need to look the journal titles up on the Voyager library catalogue.
Electronic abstracts can be found on:
EconLit
Contains bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, to international literature in economics and related fields from 1969 onwards. It includes references to:
- journal articles
- books
- chapters within books
- conference proceedings
- book reviews
- dissertations
- working papers
Developed by the American Economic Association, EconLit corresponds to both the Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles.
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Access Off-Campus
Off-campus use of Econlit
To access Econlit off-campus, your Cardiff University login will be required.
World Banking Abstracts
Provides information about articles published internationally in over 400 banking and finance publications. The abstracts are drawn from journals, magazines, and research reports.
Key topics covered include:
- financial institution
- insurance and pensions
- financial instruments and markets
- financial operations and services
Access is On-Campus Only
Accounting Standards
Printed resources
Accounting Standards Board
The following publications are in Aberconway Library at classmark Reference 657 A
- Discussion Papers 1993-
- Financial reporting statement of principles 1992-
- Financial Exporting Exposure Draft 1992-
- ASB Urgent Issues Task Force
Financial Accounting Standards Board
Located in Aberconway Library at classmark Reference 657.48 F. Statements and Interpretations from 1974 and Status Reports from 1989.
IASB International Accounting Standards
Full text of all international accounting standards and SIC interpretations extant at 1 January 2002. Located in Aberconway Library at classmark 657 I.
Information Gateways and Websites
Accountancy Age
A free e-magazine with daily news, an events diary and a useful Web Directory.
AccountingWEB
News, company data and market research data.
BUBL Links
Provides links to various accounting web sites.
INTUTE: Accounting
An academic subject gateway.
Organisations
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Accounting Standards Board (ASB)
Auditing Practices Board (APB)
Publications, press releases and current projects from the body which seeks to establish principles and procedures for audit professionals.
European Accounting Association
Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Reports, newsletters and Handbook available to download from this site.
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
International Federation of Accountants