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    A Guide for Using Accounting & Tax With Standards™
    A ProQuest® Database

    How to access Accounting & Tax with Standards™
    The basic search
    Locating accounting standards by number
    What is the Smart View    ™ Full Text Display?
    Other sources for accounting information

    Accounting & Tax with Standards™ is an electronic database that provides access to full-text and/or bibliographic documents from over 2,200 scholarly journals and/or accounting trade publications as well as full-text documents from the accounting standards boards.

    The accounting standards boards include:

    • the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

    • the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)

    • the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)

      (Please click here for further information about the Boards and the standards)

    How to access Accounting & Tax with Standards™:

    • When the ProQuest® database collection is opened, the basic search screen appears.
      (Please click here for instructions on how to access ProQuest® from the library web page)

    • The default search is ALL of the ProQuest databases.

    • To access Accounting & Tax with Standards™:

      • Click the drop-down menu for the DATABASE box (located below the Basic Search box).

      • A menu will open with database choices.

      • Scroll down and click on Accounting -- Accounting & Tax with Standards.

    The basic search:

    • To perform a basic search, type your search terms into the search box. Click SEARCH.

    • You may also limit your results by clicking on the appropriate boxes or drop-down menu options. Limiters include:

      • Date

      • Full-text documents only

      • Scholarly journal results only

      • FASB documents, GASB documents, and/or IASB documents only

      • A certain publication title

      • Other limiters

    Locating accounting standards by number:

    • There are several ways to locate a standard by its number. The ways include:

      • Browsing

      • A publication search

      • An advanced search

    • The easiest method is by browsing. This allows you to search for documents from multiple accounting standard organizations.

      • Documents can be located by publication, section, and standard number.

      • To use the browse tool, click on the Browse Accounting Standards link (found near the top of the page).

      • A listing of documents from the FASB, GASB, and IASB will open. These documents will have a plus (+) sign in front of their name.

      • Click the plus (+) sign by a document name to find the document type or title you want.

      • Once you have found the document type you want to view, click on the link to the document. 

      • This will bring the document in its entirety in a Smart View™ Full Text Display mode.


      Example: Here is the path of a browse search:

      Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)   >>    + Original Pronouncements FASB  >> Statements (FAS) >>    click on link to FAS 1 -- Disclosure of Foreign Currency Translation Information

      This opens the FAS 1 — Disclosure of Foreign Currency Translation Information issued in December 1973.

    (Please click here for information on the PUBLICATION and ADVANCED SEARCHES)

    What is the Smart View™ Full Text display?

    • Accounting standards documents are displayed using the Smart View™ Full Text View Display.

    • The Smart View™ Full Text Display offers:

      • An expandable table of contents that can be used to go to specific sections and paragraphs.

      • An automatic update when "new sections or documents load."

      • Highlighted search terms.

      • Links to related standards from the full text of the document.

    Other sources for accounting information:

    • Statements of Financial Accounting Standards (FAS)

    • Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts (CON)

    • FASB Interpretations (FIN)

    • FASB Technical Bulletins (FTB)

    • EITF Abstracts (EITF)

    NOTE: You can also click the search button below to locate online periodicals related to ACCOUNTING.  If you are off-campus, you will need to go to the Remote Access Page tab. 

    We hope that this short guide has been helpful to you. If you have any questions, please contact the library by email (libsul@sullivan.edu) or by phone (502-456-6773).

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