"Accountants play a vital role in any management team. In today’s ever changing business environment, the best decisions can only be made with accurate, meaningful financial information. This is why accounting is often called the language of business." (Source: https://www.alextech.edu/programs/accounting-aas)
This guide includes resources relevant to the ATCC Accounting area of study. For more information about the ATCC Accounting Curriculum, check the current curriculum descriptions here: https://www.alextech.edu/programs/accounting-aas/curriculum.
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This guide includes resources relevant to the ATCC Accounting area of study. For more information about the ATCC Accounting Curriculum, check the current curriculum descriptions here: https://www.alextech.edu/programs/accounting-aas/curriculum.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
Accounting Research Network (ARN)
The Accounting Research Network on SSRN is an open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers in our digital library, speeding up the dissemination and providing the scholarly community access to groundbreaking working papers and early-stage research. SSRN provides the opportunity to share different outputs of research such as preprints, preliminary or exploratory investigations, book chapters, PhD dissertations, course and teaching materials, presentations, and posters among others. SSRN also helps accounting scholars discover the latest research in their own and other fields of interest, while providing a platform for the early sharing of their own work, making it available for subsequent work to be built upon more quickly.
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system (EDGAR)
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, is the primary system for companies and others submitting documents under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and the Investment Company Act of 1940. Containing millions of company and individual filings, EDGAR benefits investors, corporations, and the U.S. economy overall by increasing the efficiency, transparency, and fairness of the securities markets. The system processes about 3,000 filings per day, serves up 3,000 terabytes of data to the public annually, and accommodates 40,000 new filers per year on average. Access to EDGAR’s public database is free—allowing you to research, for example, a public company’s financial information and operations by reviewing the filings the company makes with the SEC. You can also research information provided by mutual funds (including money market funds), exchange-traded funds (ETFs), variable annuities, and individuals.
Hoovers Online
A business application that allows you to build a targeted list of companies, browse news articles, analyze markets, research industries, and find contacts.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
The IRS is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury and one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The mission of the IRS is to provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
Accounting Research Network (ARN)
The Accounting Research Network on SSRN is an open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers in our digital library, speeding up the dissemination and providing the scholarly community access to groundbreaking working papers and early-stage research. SSRN provides the opportunity to share different outputs of research such as preprints, preliminary or exploratory investigations, book chapters, PhD dissertations, course and teaching materials, presentations, and posters among others. SSRN also helps accounting scholars discover the latest research in their own and other fields of interest, while providing a platform for the early sharing of their own work, making it available for subsequent work to be built upon more quickly.
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system (EDGAR)
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, is the primary system for companies and others submitting documents under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and the Investment Company Act of 1940. Containing millions of company and individual filings, EDGAR benefits investors, corporations, and the U.S. economy overall by increasing the efficiency, transparency, and fairness of the securities markets. The system processes about 3,000 filings per day, serves up 3,000 terabytes of data to the public annually, and accommodates 40,000 new filers per year on average. Access to EDGAR’s public database is free—allowing you to research, for example, a public company’s financial information and operations by reviewing the filings the company makes with the SEC. You can also research information provided by mutual funds (including money market funds), exchange-traded funds (ETFs), variable annuities, and individuals.
Hoovers Online
A business application that allows you to build a targeted list of companies, browse news articles, analyze markets, research industries, and find contacts.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
The IRS is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury and one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The mission of the IRS is to provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Email: library@alextech.edu
Phone: 888-234-1222, ext. 4465, or 320-762-4465
For 24/7 Library Help, go to https://askmn.org/academic
The 24/7 live chat is for general help only. For questions related specifically to your ATCC Library account, or ATCC Library resources, please contact us directly via the phone or email options listed above.
Academic Search Premier 
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
note: Freely available to Minnesota residents through ELM.
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
note: Freely available to Minnesota residents through ELM.
Accounting Research Network (ARN)
The Accounting Research Network on SSRN is an open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers in our digital library, speeding up the dissemination and providing the scholarly community access to groundbreaking working papers and early-stage research. SSRN provides the opportunity to share different outputs of research such as preprints, preliminary or exploratory investigations, book chapters, PhD dissertations, course and teaching materials, presentations, and posters among others. SSRN also helps accounting scholars discover the latest research in their own and other fields of interest, while providing a platform for the early sharing of their own work, making it available for subsequent work to be built upon more quickly.
The Accounting Research Network on SSRN is an open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers in our digital library, speeding up the dissemination and providing the scholarly community access to groundbreaking working papers and early-stage research. SSRN provides the opportunity to share different outputs of research such as preprints, preliminary or exploratory investigations, book chapters, PhD dissertations, course and teaching materials, presentations, and posters among others. SSRN also helps accounting scholars discover the latest research in their own and other fields of interest, while providing a platform for the early sharing of their own work, making it available for subsequent work to be built upon more quickly.
Business Source Premier
note: Freely available to Minnesota residents through ELM.
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
note: Freely available to Minnesota residents through ELM.
eLibrary Minnesota
ELM (eLibrary Minnesota) gives Minnesota residents access to magazine, journal, newspaper and encyclopedia articles, media, including images, videos, and audio files, and other information resources.
ELM (eLibrary Minnesota) gives Minnesota residents access to magazine, journal, newspaper and encyclopedia articles, media, including images, videos, and audio files, and other information resources.
First Research
Mergent and First Research have partnered to deliver you critical knowledge tools that equip you with the targeted understanding needed to engage key prospects and deepen client relationships. First Research's knowledge tools (Industry Profiles, Call Prep Sheets, State & Province Profiles) are essential for call preparation, enhancing presentations, underwriting credit, and for quickly learning a company's key business issues.
Mergent and First Research have partnered to deliver you critical knowledge tools that equip you with the targeted understanding needed to engage key prospects and deepen client relationships. First Research's knowledge tools (Industry Profiles, Call Prep Sheets, State & Province Profiles) are essential for call preparation, enhancing presentations, underwriting credit, and for quickly learning a company's key business issues.
Hoovers Online
A business application that allows you to build a targeted list of companies, browse news articles, analyze markets, research industries, and find contacts.
A business application that allows you to build a targeted list of companies, browse news articles, analyze markets, research industries, and find contacts.
JSTOR
"JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. We help you explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. We collaborate with the academic community to help libraries connect students and faculty to vital content while lowering costs and increasing shelf space, provide independent researchers with free and low-cost access to scholarship, and help publishers reach new audiences and preserve their content for future generations."
MNLINK
MNLINK is Minnesota's Library Information Network. MNLINK provides access with a single point of entry into Minnesota's vast resources. The MNLINK program uses OCLC’s WorldCat Discovery for searching, requesting and viewing content online. You place a request for an item that you want, and let the system do the work finding a library with a copy to lend. The vast majority of requests will be filled within 2 weeks, but some requests may take longer for a variety of reasons.
note: MNLINK is currently broken for ATCC library patrons, but is still available as a service through other MN libraries.
MNLINK is Minnesota's Library Information Network. MNLINK provides access with a single point of entry into Minnesota's vast resources. The MNLINK program uses OCLC’s WorldCat Discovery for searching, requesting and viewing content online. You place a request for an item that you want, and let the system do the work finding a library with a copy to lend. The vast majority of requests will be filled within 2 weeks, but some requests may take longer for a variety of reasons.
note: MNLINK is currently broken for ATCC library patrons, but is still available as a service through other MN libraries.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
note: Freely available to Minnesota residents through ELM.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
note: Freely available to Minnesota residents through ELM.
U.S. Newsstream
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, U.S. Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, U.S. Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
Westlaw (Thomson Reuters)
WestLaw is an online legal research service and propiertary database for legal professionals internationally. It contains both primary and secondary full text resources.
WestLaw is an online legal research service and propiertary database for legal professionals internationally. It contains both primary and secondary full text resources.
World Politics Review
World Politics Review is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs. Its original articles are written by a network of more than 400 contributors from around the world, including subject-matter experts from journalism, research organizations, academia, government, and elsewhere. This database currently has thousands of articles in its archives, and produces more than 75,000 words of original content per month.
World Politics Review is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs. Its original articles are written by a network of more than 400 contributors from around the world, including subject-matter experts from journalism, research organizations, academia, government, and elsewhere. This database currently has thousands of articles in its archives, and produces more than 75,000 words of original content per month.
Wall Street Journal
Articles from the Wall Street Journal through ProQuest US Newsstream; coverage extends from 1984 to current. Articles before 2010 may or may not have full text coverage.
note: Freely available to Minnesota residents through ELM.
Articles from the Wall Street Journal through ProQuest US Newsstream; coverage extends from 1984 to current. Articles before 2010 may or may not have full text coverage.
note: Freely available to Minnesota residents through ELM.
Accounting Terminology Guide
The NYSSCPA (New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants) has prepared this glossary of over 1,000 accounting and finance terms as an educational tool for journalists who report on and interpret financial information.
The NYSSCPA (New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants) has prepared this glossary of over 1,000 accounting and finance terms as an educational tool for journalists who report on and interpret financial information.
FindLaw
FindLaw.com contains a wealth of free, up-to-date, and easily understandable legal information and tools. We also offer the most comprehensive lawyer directory on the internet. We help connect people with legal issues to the right professionals who are ready to help.
FindLaw.com contains a wealth of free, up-to-date, and easily understandable legal information and tools. We also offer the most comprehensive lawyer directory on the internet. We help connect people with legal issues to the right professionals who are ready to help.
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
An online directory of law firms, attorneys, law school alumni, legal information, associations, and articles. "For 150 years, Martindale-Hubbell has served as the prime resource for attorneys looking to grow their practice. We use our legal experience and technology to help lawyers connect with prospects."
An online directory of law firms, attorneys, law school alumni, legal information, associations, and articles. "For 150 years, Martindale-Hubbell has served as the prime resource for attorneys looking to grow their practice. We use our legal experience and technology to help lawyers connect with prospects."
Films on Demand
A digital video deliverery service that allows users to stream films and documentaries spanning a wide range of academic topics.
A digital video deliverery service that allows users to stream films and documentaries spanning a wide range of academic topics.
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system (EDGAR)
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, is the primary system for companies and others submitting documents under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and the Investment Company Act of 1940. Containing millions of company and individual filings, EDGAR benefits investors, corporations, and the U.S. economy overall by increasing the efficiency, transparency, and fairness of the securities markets. The system processes about 3,000 filings per day, serves up 3,000 terabytes of data to the public annually, and accommodates 40,000 new filers per year on average. Access to EDGAR’s public database is free—allowing you to research, for example, a public company’s financial information and operations by reviewing the filings the company makes with the SEC. You can also research information provided by mutual funds (including money market funds), exchange-traded funds (ETFs), variable annuities, and individuals.
USA Gov
The official website of the United States government, designed to "create and organize timely, needed government information and services and make them accessible anytime, anywhere, via your channel of choice".
The official website of the United States government, designed to "create and organize timely, needed government information and services and make them accessible anytime, anywhere, via your channel of choice".
Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)
Established in 1984, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is the independent, private- sector organization based in Norwalk, Connecticut, that establishes accounting and financial reporting standards for U.S. state and local governments that follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Established in 1984, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is the independent, private- sector organization based in Norwalk, Connecticut, that establishes accounting and financial reporting standards for U.S. state and local governments that follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
The IRS is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury and one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The mission of the IRS is to provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.
The IRS is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury and one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The mission of the IRS is to provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
The PCAOB is a nonprofit corporation established by Congress to oversee the audits of public companies in order to protect investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate, and independent audit reports. The PCAOB also oversees the audits of brokers and dealers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including compliance reports filed pursuant to federal securities laws.
The PCAOB is a nonprofit corporation established by Congress to oversee the audits of public companies in order to protect investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate, and independent audit reports. The PCAOB also oversees the audits of brokers and dealers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including compliance reports filed pursuant to federal securities laws.
Small Business Administration
Created in 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to help small business owners and entrepreneurs pursue the American dream. SBA is the only cabinet-level federal agency fully dedicated to small business and provides counseling, capital, and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.
Created in 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to help small business owners and entrepreneurs pursue the American dream. SBA is the only cabinet-level federal agency fully dedicated to small business and provides counseling, capital, and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.