Accounting - Suggested Additional Resources

There are a wide range of resources available to Accounting students beyond the obvious journals, databases and websites. Here we list a selection we think you'll find useful.

Government and Official Sources

• 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

Newspapers

• Links to US and international newspaper sites
• Nexis UK. [LexisNexis executive]
  Huge amount of news content, Select Financial Times as a Source under the Source Tab to search the FT

Reading Lists

Reading lists may have been prepared by your lecturer specifically for your course.

•  Department of Accounting and Finance

 Statistics and Sources of Data

• 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
• 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.

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
• Networked digital library of theses and dissertations

Working Papers

• Accounting Research Network
  links to working papers from London Business School and Chicago Booth School of Business Standards
• International Accounting Standards Board