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Accounting & Finance

• Key databases
• Assignment help
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Key databases

The databases below (listed in alphabetical order) contain thousands of journal articles that are relevant to your topics. You can do a keyword search to find information that can be quoted in your assignments.

ProQuest and Emerald are two of the most frequently used database in this discipline.  Current news articles from local and foreign sources can be found on Newsbank.

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Assignment help

AFM 101 Ethics and accounting
AFM 101-217 Introduction to Financial Accounting

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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

ABS Directories — These are ready references to sources of Australian statistical information.
Census Dictionary — This ABS publication includes a complete listing of the 1996 Census classifications and a glossary of census terms and definitions.
EDIRC — This is a directory of over 6,500 Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers throughout the world.
Business abbreviation sources — Economic and accounting acronyms, abbreviations and symbols.

Gale Virtual Reference Library titles relevant to economics and accounting include:

• Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
• Encyclopedia of Small Business
• Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce

Oxford Reference Online: Economics & Business includes a range of usual reference works in this area, including:

• Dictionary of Accounting
• Dictionary of Business and Management
• Dictionary of Economics
• Dictionary of Finance and Banking
• Dictionary of Human Resource Management
• Handbook of International Financial Terms
• Dictionary of Statistics

Among the useful Sage reference titles are: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook and many more.

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Web sites and Internet resources

Accounting and Financial Management

ASIC— Australian Securities & Investments Commission
Australian Accounting Standards
Australian Government Information Management Office — cost effective business processes and tools for government agencies.
CPA Australia — the Home Page of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants
ICAC — publications about eCorruption and the public sector
IMF Publications — journals, working papers, country reports, economic issues and policy discussion papers in full-text.
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
Nouriel Roubini's site on global macroeconomic and financial policy
Taxation Institute of Australia
 

Australian Share Market

Australian Stock Exchange
Stock Exchanges Worldwide Links
Sydney Futures Exchange — information on the SFE, statistics, links to other exchanges and sites with trader information
Yahoo Finance — ASX stock quotes, business news highlights, financial news, financial glossary

General Sites

Australian Government Information Management Office — Australian government site with links to government information including items on e-government.
Country Commercial Guides — full-text reports prepared annually by US embassies. They present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis.
United Nations system of organizations — an alphabetical index of direct links to all of the United Nations organizations, including joint initiatives, special projects, funds, programmes and specialised agencies.
Universal currency converter — Xenon Laboratories

Statistics

Australian statistical internet sites — the National Library of Australia's page of links to authoritative Australian statistics, including regional statistics for the States.
ABS Statistics — the Australian Bureau of Statistics site where you can access all ABS publications in fulltext from 1998 onwards, over 2,000 spreadsheets and Census Basic Community Profiles.
Bureau of Economic Analysis — produces and disseminates accurate, timely, relevant, and cost-effective economic accounts statistics that provide a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of economic activity in the US. Key issues include US economic growth, regional economic development, and the nation's position in the world economy.
FedStats — access to official statistics provided by over 100 agencies in the US Federal Government.
Handbook of International Economic Statistics 1998 — basic worldwide statistics for comparing the economic performance of major countries and regions.
OECD Statistics — these include economic statistics, agriculture, energy, development co-operation, public management, education, labour, social affairs, science, technology, industry, health and transport.
Offstats — Official statistics on the web provided by University of Auckland Library. Search by country, region or topic, including agriculture, banking, commodities, debt, development, economic growth, finance, income distribution, savings, tariffs and more.
Statistical Resources on the Web — University of Michigan site for international economic statistics.
Statistics Norway — providing links to official statistical agencies throughout the world, including Australia's ABS, Japan, China, Iceland, Brazil, USA, Canada and Turkey.
Statistics.com — a comprehensive directory of links to data sources.
World Bank basic data — national statistics for countries and regions and also data by topics, such as poverty.
World Factbook, CIA

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