Accounting

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Online EBooks

Advances in accounting education: teaching and curriculum innovations (available online)

Confession and Bookkeeping The Relgious, Moral, and Rhetorical Roots of Modern Accounting (available online)

Executive finance and strategy: how to understand and use financial informaiton to set strategic goals (available online)

The handy accounting answer book (available online)

How to open your own in-home bookkeeping service (available online)

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Accounting and finance for the nonfinancial executive: an integrated resource management guide for the 21st century (HF5635 .S552899 2000)

Historical encyclopedia of American Business (Reference HF3021 .H67 2009 and also available online)

Understanding hospital billing and coding (RA971.3 .F47 2011)

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1. Useful keywords: bookkeeping, double-entry bookkeeping, certified public accountant, debits and credits, balance sheet, general ledger, accounts payable
2. Break down your topic into smaller concepts and identify synonyms
3. Use and to combine keywords, i.e. "accounting and bookkeeping"
4. Use or to expand your results, i.e. "general ledger or balance sheet"
5. Use "quotation marks" to search keywords as a phrase, i.e. "certified public accountant"
6. Use an asteric* to search multiple endings, i.e. account* will search accountant, accounts, accounting, etc.

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