Learning Resources for Studies in Accounting

RECOMMENDED LINKS - GENERAL

• Empire State College library recommended links:
  selected learning resources available through the college's online library
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants - State Information Pages
• Institute of Management Accountants (information on CMA/CFA exams)
• Internal Revenue Service
• Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation
• National Society of Accountants
• N.Y.S. CPA/Public Accountancy Licensing Requirements

RECOMMENDED LINKS - BY THE CENTER FOR DISTANCE LEARNING

• American Accounting Association
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Annual Report Gallery ARG
• Association for Information Systems
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
• EDGAR Database of Corporate Information : Electronic Data Gathering Analysis & Retrieval system
• Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation
• Financial Accounting Standards Board
• FinancialWeb Wall Street Access
• Hoover’s UK (Database of information about companies in the UK, like the US version of EDGAR)
• Institute of Internal Auditors
• Institute of Management Accountants
• International Accounting Standards Committee
• International Federation of Accounting Committee
• Journal of Accountancy Online
• Strategic Finance
• The General Accounting Office
• The Securities & Exchange Commission
• Academic.com
  Academic.com, is a fully interactive library of online supplemental course material that can enhance any Web-based course or simply help a student in need of some targeted review. The learning modules provide interactive instruction and review in mathematics, writing, sciences, social sciences, and study skills critical to student success across college disciplines. If you are considering utilizing academic.com, arrangements would need to be made to ship students a CD that contains all the plug-ins and students would need to receive instructions on how to use academic.com. At this time, ESC has purchased the Math 1 and Math 2 libraries only. REQUIRES A PASSWORD AND PLUG-INS CD

• ESC - Learning Resources for Study in Economics/Data Link
  An ESC site that links students to the following government and nonprofits organizations and online publications: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Institute of Management Accountants (information on CMA/CFA exams), Internal Revenue Service, Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation, National Society of Accountants, and N.Y.S. CPA/Public Accountancy Licensing Requirements.

• Rutgers Accounting Web site
  Links out to sites ranging from the Big Five, Journals and Publications, Audit and Law to Taxation.

• McGraw Hill
  This online textbook offers 21 Chapters and Cases on the following business finance topics: Review of Accounting, Cost of Capital, Capital Budgeting Decision, etc.

• Accounting and Financial Analysis
  iFigure provides links to interactive online calculators and worksheets that provide information to help in planning, solving and making decisions for a multitude of business problems and tasks that come up daily, such as buying real estate, investing money, figuring business profits, or making statistical comparisons. To find a tool, choose a topic from the menu at the top left of page: Accounting, Employees, Expenses, Retailing, or Taxes or use the search box.

• South Western/Thomson Learning
  South-Western provides innovative learning materials—more than 150 titles each year in thirteen disciplines for the higher and secondary education markets, as well as the professional, corporate and retail business education environments. Market leader in accounting. Site contains accounting topics by chapters covering areas of operating expenditures, cash flow, management accounting, cost systems, Analyzing Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships, operating budgets, Strategic and Capital Investment Decisions, etc. with each chapter containing an overview, powerpoint slides, articles, and exercises.

• South Western College
  Very comprehensive site that offers endless links to associations, accounting links, supplemental Internet resources for the application of Accounting principles, and great ideas for teaching accounting in the areas of Taxation and Managerial and Cost Accounting .

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