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Accounting Standards

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• Financial Accounting Standards Board / Financial Accounting Standards Board
  This is the standard body for financial accounting and reporting in the US. It gives announcements, exposure drafts, facts about FASB, summaries and status of all FASB documents.

• Journal of accountancy
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• TIP
  

  This journal gives the latest FASB standards when they are issued. This journal is available in full text through Proquest. Therefore, search the Proquest Database for the latest standards in full text.

• Mastery of the Financial Accounting Research System (FARS) through FARS cases / Wallace, Wanda A
  • Location: Haggard 2-Ref Computer File
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  Use of this database is limited to the WWU community. FARS provides access to accounting literature from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF). The Infobases contained in FARS are "Original Pronouncements, Current Text, EITF Abstracts, Implementation Guides and a Comprehensive Topical Index" with other topical resources such as that on Derivatives Instruments and Hedging Activities and the FARS Reference Guide. This CD ROM contains the latest Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) standards. It is available at the Reference Desk. You must ask for it, and sign it out. It runs on 2 computer stations in the reference area. Please ask for help identifying machines to use. Alternatively, you may install this CD in your own personal laptop. To do this use the "set up" command. FARS will not run in any of the labs or Western Library laptops.

• Government auditing standards (GAO Yellow Book ) / United States. Government Accountability Office
  Government Auditing Standards (the "Yellow Book") contains standards for audits of government organizations, programs, activities, and functions, and of government assistance received by contractors, nonprofit organizations, and other non-government organizations.

• Government Accounting Standards Board / Government Accounting Standards Board
  Gives exposure drafts, summaries and status of all GASB documents.

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) / American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)web site gives association news, developments, and career opportunities, as well as links to selected sites. It provides access to some full text of recently issued pronouncements and standards.

• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States / CPAclass.com
  This site provides links to many GAAP bulletins and standards.

• Miller GAAP guide / Williams, Jan R
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5616.U5 M5
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  The Miller GAAP Guide organizes accounting pronouncements alphabetically by topic under two general areas: generally accepted accounting principles and specialized industry accounting principles. Pronouncements covering the same subject are compiled and incorporated in a single chapter. Material can be accessed through the IMPRESS Table of Contents which locates the chapter in which a particular pronouncement is discussed and the Index.

• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board / Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
  PCAOB has statutory authority to set auditing, quality control and ethical standards. This site provides links to the various standards.

• United States Securities and Exchange Commission / United States Securities and Exchange Commission
  Provides information on US publicly traded companies. Site also details regulatory information, including background on rulemaking and enforcement. Includes the EDGAR database and tips for investors in regard to the Internet. Note: SEC's EDGAR database requires all companies, foreign and domestic, to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. It has a delay on the release of filing data which ranges from 24-48 hours. The prospectus and proxy filings often contain information on market share and market size.

• Wiley GAAP ... : interpretation and application of generally accepted accounting principles
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5616.U5 G33
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  Wiley GAAP is a thorough study and analysis of all Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) set forth in the pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and its predecessors. This guide contains numerous examples that help the reader understand and apply GAAP to real-life situations.

• Wiley practitioner's guide to GAAS
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5616.U5 W558
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  This guide helps an accountant identify, interpret, and apply the many audit, attest, review, and compilation standards. It includes the AICPA Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs), Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs), and Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs).

• IAS plus / Deloitte
  This site, sponsored by Deloitte, provides information on emerging international accounting standards and practices.

• IFRS: Interpretation and application of international accounting and reporting standards / Epstein, Barry and Abbas Ali Mirza
  • Location: Haggard 2 Reference: HF5626 E67 2006
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  This provides explanations and illustrations of all the current International Accounting Standards Board accounting principles.

• International accounting standards : a practical guide / Greuning, Hennie van.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5611 .G74 2001
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  This book summarizes all of the accounting standards, issued by the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) are as well as interpretations disseminated by the Standards Interpretations Committee (SIC). It gives accounting students a basic understanding of the key issues for each International Accounting Standard.

• International Accounting Standards Board / International Accounting Standards Board
  The IASB is committed to developing, in the public interest, a single set of high quality, understandable and enforceable global accounting standards that require transparent and comparable information in general purpose financial statements. IASB is based in London, UK.

• International auditing and assurance standard board (IAASB) / International Auditing and Assurance Standard Board
  The objective of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) is to serve the public interest by settinghigh quality standards on auditing, quality control, review, other assurance, and related services, and facilitating the convergence of national and international standards. IAASB pronouncements may be downloaded free-of-charge from this site.

• International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) / International Federation of Accountants
  IFAC is the global organization for the accountancy profession. Among its Boards is the International auditing and assurance standard board. The site lists standards and exposure drafts issued by its many units.

• International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing / Institute of Internal Auditors
  The International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards) provide guidance for the conduct of internal auditing at both the organizational and individual auditor levels

• Miller international accounting standards guide
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5626 .M55
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  This contains interpretations issued by the International Accounting Standards Commission's (IASC) Standing Interpretations Committee and to-the point analyses of IASC Exposure Drafts. It also explains the organization and structure of the IASC, including background on its constitution and its framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements.

• Transnational accounting / Ordelheide, Dieter.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5626 .T72 2001
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  This book describes all the rules and accounting standards of many countries.

• Accounting and Auditing

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