Business source premier

Good place to search for articles from Accountancy, Strategic Finance and other professional journals not found on Google Scholar as well as academic articles. Click on the peer-reviewed button if you only want academic articles.

Science direct

In spite of its name, this database has thousands of articles on accounting and financial management topics

Emerald fulltext

Best results found if you do an advanced search. There you can also choose to search just for case studies or literature reviews

Click on Journal of the Week for free weekly access to two of Emerald's journals.

Accounting terms : accounting dictionary : accounting glossary

Freely available glossary of over 3,000 terms

Dictionary of accounting

Ebrary resource

Accounting acronyms list from CIMA

See also print dictionaries of accounting at 657.03 in the 1st Floor Subject Reference Collection

International tax and business guides from Deloitte

Index of corporate governance codes

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Look here for technical papers and views from the Association

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)

Plenty of information and viewpoints under “Technical & Business Topics” and Library tabs.

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

Has research and reports in its Publications section on many topics, including fraud and corporate governance

AccountingWeb

Institute for Fiscal Studies

Site includes overview of UK tax system and data on tax rates

OECD Tax pages

Information by country and statistics allowing comparison of taxes across countries

Bankscope

Find financial data for c10000 banks

MorningStar (formerly Hemscott Company Guru)

Accounts, ratios, official news, share price and director data for c300,000 UK companies. You can search for companies using a number of criteria

View the tutorial for Hemscott Company Guru

Nexis UK [LexisNexis executive]

Look under the companies tab to find directory, basic analyst and shareholder and limited financials for a wide range of companies

Zephyr

is a subscription database for mergers data but you will find some basic M&A trends if you look under “Statistics” on the home page

If you are a masters or dissertation student, you may want to use Datastream – a very powerful database with financial and economic data from around the world. This has limited availability in the Business School IT open access area. Please ask there.

Networked digital library of theses and dissertations

British Library EThOS

A database of digitised UK doctoral theses offering free online access to theses of participating Higher Education institutions

Index to theses

This will help you identify UK and Irish theses

Nexis UK. [LexisNexis executive]

Huge amount of news content, Select Financial Times as a Source under the Source Tab to search the FT

Links to US and international newspaper sites

Audit Commission

The Audit Commission is an independent watchdog, driving economy, efficiency and effectiveness in local public services. The site includes a Financial Ratio analysis tool to compare local councils

European Court of Auditors which monitors EU finances

Financial Reporting Council.

Uk independent regulator for corporate reporting and governance. Links to Accounting Standards Board and Auditing Practices Board

HM Revenue and Customs

Statistics, reports and news

Accounting Research Network

links to working papers from London Business School and Chicago Booth School of Business Standards

International Accounting Standards Board