LibGuides: Accounting: Overview

Overview

This Guide, the navigation tabs, and the resources included within the guide are here to help UM-Flint researchers find books, articles, databases, company information & financials, industry information & statistics and research tips in the field of Accounting.

This Guide is intended for the use by University of Michigan-Flint students and employees. Users outside of UM-Flint may not be able to access many of the links provided.

Frequently Used Databases

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
1886-present. Case studies, company profiles, conference proceedings, country reports, financial data, industry reports, investment research reports, market research reports, monographs, SWOT analyses, trade journals. All aspects of business.
Due to license restrictions, access to the 500 most popular articles from Harvard Business Review is read-only--no printing, downloading, or direct linking to these 500 articles is permitted. All other HBR articles are fully accessible to all current U-M students, faculty, and staff with no such restrictions.

Use Policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of EBSCO Business Source Complete."
ProQuest Business This link opens in a new window
Collection of databases relating to business.
Includes the following databases. which may also be searched individually:
- ABI/INFORM Collection
- EconLit
- Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports Archive (1952-1995)
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: Business
- ProQuest Historical Annual Reports (1844-present)
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal (1889-1996)
- ProQuest Research Library: Business
- Women's Wear Daily Archive
Business Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
1982-present. Accounting, banking, communications, economics, finance, regulations, insurance, investments, marketing, oil & gas, personnel, retail trade, small business, taxation, specific businesses, specific industries, specific trades.
Factiva (Dow Jones Factiva) This link opens in a new window
Offers company and industry financial data and news stories, as well as full text articles in 6,000 trade publications, newspapers, newswires and magazines.
Technical notes: Please log out of this resource as directed when finished. Failing to log out may prevent others from using the database. Downloads are limited to 100 documents per PDF.

Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of Factiva." Traders may not use this database.

Guide to using Dow Jones Factiva