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ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics 
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Access all Australian Bureau of Statistics publications in fulltext from 1998.
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APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995. 
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EconLit Full Text
Produced by the American Economic Association, covering economic literature. Topics include agricultural and rural issues, demography, country studies, economic history, international relations and institutions, and welfare economics.
CSA Help
EconPapers Selected Full Text
Working papers, articles and software in economics and related fields.
Gale Databases Full Text
Provides multidisciplinary subject coverage, including the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research Selected Full Text
Access to published research in the field of economics through its RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) database.
Newsbank Full Text 
Newsbank has the full-text content of more than 100 local, regional, and national newspapers from Australia and overseas.
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APECLIT: APEC Literature Datbnase Selected Full Text
Indexes items dealing with Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries and related topics.
CSI: Consumer Sciences Index
Covers topics such as children, clothing, consumer economics, craft, family, fashion, food, health, home economics, housing, marriage, nutrition and textiles.
Emerald
Collection of over 130 peer-reviewed journals in the discipline of management.
Emerald Help
IFPRI: International Food Policy Research Institute Selected Full Text
IFPRI conducts research on economic growth and poverty alleviation in low-income countries, means to improve the well-being of poor people, and sound economic policies for developing nations.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.
Assignment help
AFM 101 Ethics and accounting
AFM 101-217 Introduction to Financial Accounting
Agricultural economics
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Reference
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
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Politics & Social Sciences
SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a database of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Websites & internet resources
Accounting and financial management
ASIC— Australian Securities & Investments Commission
Australian Accounting Standards
Australian Government Finance and Administration — initiatives which help transform how the Australian Government conducts its business.
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
US Bureau of Labor Statistics data — time series on US CPI, PPI and payroll data
US Census Quick Facts — demographic and business statistics to US County level with easy access to full Census data.
US Economic Census — detailed and authoritative economic data for eighteen areas of US industries, including mining, construction, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, transportation, company management, finance and insurance, service industries and real estate.
Agricultural and Resource Economics
ABARE — the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ACIAR — Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research which focuses on sustainable agricultural systems and natural resources management in developing countries
ACCC — Australian Competition and Consumer Commission site
FAOSTAT — statistics for agricultural production and trade, food supply, fertilisers and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forestry, fisheries, population and agricultural machinery
IMF Publications — journals, working papers, country reports, economic issues and policy discussion papers in full-text
Meat & Livestock Australia — market information and marketing to benefit the red meat industry.
Productivity Commission, Australia — Reports (in full text) produced since it was formed in April 1998, plus lists of publications by its predecessors (Industry Commission, Bureau of Industry Economics, etc)
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation — a government site shaping Australia's rural and agribusiness future
STAT-USA — Economic, trade, business information for USA. (US Deptment of Commerce)
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.
United States Dept. of Agriculture statistics
USDA Economics and Statistics System
World Bank Monthly Commodity Price Data
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
US Securities and Exchange Commission — includes access to EDGAR (for company information and all SEC filings)
Yahoo Finance — ASX stock quotes, business news highlights, financial news, financial glossary
Economic History
Australian Constitution
BOPCRIS — British Official Publication Collaborative Reader Information Service provides mostly abstracts (but some full-text) of key British official documents from 1688 to 1995. Subject areas include national finance; money, banking and financial institutions; agirculture and food supplies; economic policy and planning; employment and industrial relations; and economic relations with Commonwealth and developing countries.
Economic and Business History — WWW Virtual Library resources maintained by the Netherlands Economic History Archive.
EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
Internet Resources for Economic Historians
Oxford University — links to economic history sites, and Discussion papers in economic and social history
Productivity Commission, Australia
Economics
ARIC — the Asia Recovery Information Centre (a joint project of the Asian Development Bank and AusAID) provides information about the social and economic impacts of the Asian financial crisis
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.
ESCR — free access to all ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) funded research.
FITA — Federation of International Trade Association's international trade/import-export portal.
Global Policy Forum — monitors UN policy
GlobalEDGE — links to international business, maintained by MSU-CIBER (Michigan State University, Center for International Business Education and Research)
ICAC — publications about eCorruption and the public sector
IMF Publications — journals, working papers, country reports, economic issues and policy discussion papers in full-text
International Monetary Fund — IMF publications and Working Papers, many in full-text
Nouriel Roubini's site on global macroeconomic and financial policy
RePEc — Research Papers in Economics, a huge collection of full-text working papers and journal articles, plus software components.
US Economic Census — detailed and authoritative economic data for eighteen areas of US industries, including mining, construction, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, transportation, company management, finance and insurance, service industries and real estate.
VIBES — Virtual International Business & Economic Sources provides over 2,000 links to free web sources in English, including full-text articles and research reports.
WebEc — free information on economics on the WWW
World Bank: World Development Reports
World Trade Organization
General Sites
Australian Government Information Management Office — Australian government site with links to government information including items on e-government. Australian statistical internet sites — the National Library of Australia's page of links to authoritative Australian statistics, including regional statistics for the States.
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
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.
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
ILO Databases — a collection of databases provided by the International Labour Organization
OECD Statistics — these include economic statistics, agriculture, energy, development co-operation, public management, education, labour, social affairs, science, technology, industry, health & 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
STAT-USA — Economic, trade, business information for USA (US Dept. of Commerce)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data — time series on US CPI, PPI and payroll data
US Census Quick Facts — demographic and business statistics to US County level with easy access to full Census data.
World Bank basic data — national statistics for countries and regions and also data by topics, such as poverty
World Factbook, CIA