The Proquest Accounting and Tax database serves as the principle research tool for accounting and tax professionals. It includes indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 core accounting-related business journals, including official releases from the AICPA and FASB, as well as selective indexing from over 1000 additional sources. National and international in scope, it covers accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans and corporate financial management. It also profiles accounting firms, CPAs and management consulting firms. To obtain AICPA and FASB releases, search by Author in the advanced search feature and type in AICPA or FASB in the search box.
Search Tips:
- You can focus your search by using truncation and wildcard characters to stand in for letters, adding flexibility and increasing the number of terms to include as matches in your results. For example, if you are searching for historic documents about Lincoln's address at Gettysburg, and you are aware that the spelling has changed over the years for many city names. To find documents, you use the truncation symbol. Lincoln AND gettysburg* This will find the alternate spellings of Gettysburg and Gettysburgh.
- The ProQuest Topic Guide lets you find documents by searching an index, or by exploring a hierarchical subject directory. Indexed topics may include subjects, companies, people, and locations. Enter a term and select whether you want ProQuest to Suggest Topics or Look up Topics A-Z, then click Find Term. Or, click browse subjects by topic to view the Subject Directory. Once you have found a topic, click View documents to run a search using the topic. Or click Narrow below the desired topic to narrow the search using related terms. From the narrowed list, find a term you want to use and click View.
- You'll find Cite this above the title of your document, along with other options for handling the document you're reading. When you click Cite this, it will open a window with a formatted citation you can include in a bibliography. Use the dropdown menu to select the desired citation format (APA, MLA, etc.). Or you can follow these steps to export citations from your list for a bibliography:
- First, make sure you're on the My Research page.
- Check the box next to each document you want to include in your bibliography.
- Click the Export citations into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks or Reference Manager link.
- You see the Export Citations page. Select export directly to RefWorks. Make sure to wait to log into RefWorks until prompted to.
- First, make sure you're on the My Research page.
Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter A and select Accounting and Tax.