Accounting & Taxation

Research help for accounting and taxation students, faculty, and staff

Welcome!

This guide is for in-depth research on accounting and taxation topics. If you are looking for general information about your taxes, try these links:

Colorado Department of Revenue
Information on Colorado state taxes
Internal Revenue Service
Information on filing federal taxes
State and Local Government
Directory of state and local government websites, if you want to find other states' taxation information.

Practitioner Research

These databases are your best bets for researching accounting and taxation policies, laws, and court cases.

Bloomberg Tax
Coverage: Current
Integrates tax and accounting analysis, news, and primary sources covering federal and international tax issues (formerly BNA Tax and Accounting Center).
CCH IntelliConnect
Coverage: Varies
Provides full-text access to primary and secondary documents related to accounting and taxation practices. Covers federal, state, and international taxation rules; accounting research, including GAAP; and financial and estate planning.
RIA Checkpoint
Maximum Concurrent Users: 35
Coverage: Most recent
Site for tax and financial research. Collections include United States tax reporter library, Federal tax coordinator library, Public domain library, RIA citator 2nd, RIA tax alerts, WG & L journals (include corporate taxation, Journal of taxation, Practical tax strategies), and State and local tax materials.

Databases with Journal Articles

These databases contain scholarly research on accounting and taxation topics.

Business Source Complete
Coverage: Varies
Provides indexing, abstracts, and full-text content for scholarly business journals and trade publications in all disciplines of business--including marketing, management, CIS, accounting, finance, and economics. The database also includes investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
Web of Science
Coverage: Varies
Multidisciplinary database covering journal articles and conference proceedings in arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

FindIt@CSU

Some articles include a link to full-text (html or PDF format). If there's no link to full-text, just click on the FindIt@CSU link:

This tool searches across all 200+ library databases to see if we own the article online.

Can't Find Full Text?

Encountering this?

Click on "CSU-Fort Collins Interlibrary Loan" to request the item from another library. Articles will typically arrive within 24 hours, while books typically arrive within 7-10 days.

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