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Authorized Affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password, i.e. current UCI students, faculty, and staff.

 


These resources are not licensed by the UCI Libraries, but librarians occasionally promote them when they are relevant for certain types of research.

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Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation


Accounting and Auditing

 

Checkpoint Edge
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

Formerly RIA Checkpoint.  A comprehensive federal, state, and international tax and accounting research database by Thomson Reuters.  Access provided by the Paul Merage School of Business. 

  • To see all sources available in the Merage School's subscription, use the Table of Contents screen, accessed from the left-navigation menu. 
     

FASB Accounting Standards Codification 
Access: UCI- Merage Affiliates (Catalyst)
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards codification is the source of authoritative generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) recognized by the FASB to be applied to nongovernmental entities.  Access is via the American Accounting Association (AAA) site.  

 

GASB Governmental Accounting Research System
Access: UCI- Merage Affiliates (Catalyst)
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) codification is an integration of currently effective accounting and reporting standards for state and local governments.  Access is via the American Accounting Association (AAA) site. 

 

Business Source Complete
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

Covers virtually all business subjects. Thousands of full-text and bibliographic entries for scholarly business journals and trade publications, including Accounting Today, CPA JournalInternal Auditor, and Main Street Practitioner.

 

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates

Important databases in: finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy.  

 


Taxation

 

Checkpoint Edge
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

Formerly RIA Checkpoint.  A comprehensive federal, state, and international tax and accounting research database, by Thomson Reuters.  Access provided by the Paul Merage School of Business. 

  • To see all sources available in the Merage School's subscription, use the Table of Contents screen, accessed from the left-navigation menu. 
     

Cheetah (formerly CCH Intelliconnect)
Access: UCI

Expertise from WK attorney specialists including analysis and explanations; curated primary sources (laws, regulations, and cases) with history lines and notes.  Law Practice Areas Include: Antitrust; Banking & Consumer Finance; Securities & Corporate; Tax.

 

Tax Notes
Access: UCI- Authorized Affiliates
Geography: Global

UCI's access is sponsored by the Law Library.  
News, analysis, and commentary, all around the understanding and application of tax policy.  Produced by Tax Analysts, a non-profit tax publisher. 

 

Nexis Uni
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

The "Tax Law" filter in this database offers searching across a suite of relevant government, industry, and academic publications, customized to that category.  (Formerly LexisNexis Academic.)

 

OECD iLibrary
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

Contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), including statstical data on taxes in OECD countries.  

 

Business Source Complete
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

Covers virtually all business subjects. Thousands of full-text and bibliographic entries for scholarly business journals and trade publications, including Tax Adviser.

 

IRS Tax Statistics
The Internal Revenue Services web portal, offering a wide range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system.


FAQ

 

I'm interested in a career in accounting.  What resources do the UCI Libraries have to help me?  

  • We have access to the Accounting Today trade publication (in the Business Source Complete database).  It produces annual information on the Top 100 Firms, including revenue, personnel, and fee splits.  Caveat: Currently the Big 4, i.e. Deloitte, PWC, E&Y, and KPMG, are not publicly traded on a US stock exchange, so they are not required to release SEC filings.

 

How can I find real-world audit plans?  

  • The audit plan is part of the audit’s “working papers” (or audit documentation), which are the property of the auditor. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires auditors to retain all documents relating to the audit for 7 years after the conclusion of the audit. These documents can be shared with the client at the auditor’s discretion, but are normally kept confidential (unless, say, there’s a court order for them).
    • PWC makes its audit plans for the University of California Regents publicly available.  You can find them by doing a search online for: pwc uc regents audit plan
    • Another useful online search is: internal audit workpaper filetype:pdf

 

Where can I find the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) codification? 
Y
ou'll need the Book titled Codification of Statements on Auditing Standards, by the Auditing Standards Board of the AICPA.  The GAAS codification is comprised of the Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs) and the related auditing interpretations applicable to the preparation and issuance of audit reports for all nonissuers, (i.e. any entity not subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or the rules of the SEC).  

 

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