Trial of Proquest's Accounting and Tax with Standards

We have a trial until July 1 of the Proquest Accounting and Tax with Standards database. (This was offered by the vendor.) It is listed in the alphabetical listing of databases on the Newman Library homepage as Accounting and Tax with Standards-trial. The password is posted on the Wiki. (It has been supplied to accounting faculty.)

This database basically adds the FASB, GASB and IASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board, Government Accounting Standards Board and International Accounting Standard Board publications to the ABI Inform Global database. (The "tax" part is the journals that can be searched for tax information, as well as accounting related publications in the database.)

We had an earlier trial of this database. One accounting professor, a very experienced researcher, thought it wasn't very "user friendly." He suggested to me that beginners and other search either the official literature or the journals separately as a combined search can be very confusing.

Since the FASB documents are current as of March 30, 2006, for more current information, one should search RIA Checkpoint--Accounting & Auditing & Corp Finance, or CCH Accounting Research Manager. RIA offers FASB and GASB. CCH Accounting Research Manager offers FASB and IASB. Both RIA and CCH update the information daily. If one of the organizations announces a new publication, it is available usually the next day. (Each of the organizations, FASB, http://www.fasb.org, GASB, http://www.gasb.org, and the IASB, http://www.iasb.org/Home.htm have websites that offer new announcements.)

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Rita