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- Credo Reference Academic Core This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
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- Bloomberg Tax and Accounting Center This link opens in a new window
Offers practitioners analysis from outside experts, news, and primary sources. Includes practice tools covering federal, state, and international taxation, estate planning, and financial accounting.This link leads to the Tax section of the database; you can toggle to Accounting using the "Go To Products" dropdown menu at the top of the page. Each of the individual standards and regulations—AICPA, FASB, GASB, and ISAB—have a 1 simultaneous user limit. This database is accessible to faculty, students and staff affiliated with Fairfield University who register with a valid “fairfield.edu” email address permitting library resource access. First-time users must register here. Registration is good for one semester; you must re-register for every semester you need your account.
- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) - Use by CountryDeloitte IASPlus website.
- Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standards (PCAOB)The PCAOB is directed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to establish auditing and related professional practice standards for registered public accounting firms to follow in the preparation and issuance of audit reports.
- Governmental GAAP Guide for State and Local GovernmentsLocated on the Main Level Ref. HJ9801 .G68 2021
Find Tax Codes and Regulations
- Bloomberg Tax and Accounting Center This link opens in a new window
Offers practitioners analysis from outside experts, news, and primary sources. Includes practice tools covering federal, state, and international taxation, estate planning, and financial accounting.This link leads to the Tax section of the database; you can toggle to Accounting using the "Go To Products" dropdown menu at the top of the page. Each of the individual standards and regulations—AICPA, FASB, GASB, and ISAB—have a 1 simultaneous user limit. This database is accessible to faculty, students and staff affiliated with Fairfield University who register with a valid “fairfield.edu” email address permitting library resource access. First-time users must register here. Registration is good for one semester; you must re-register for every semester you need your account.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowFunded in part by the generosity of the Flora and Jeremiah Buckley Library Fund. Contains local, regional, national, and international news with deep archives. Provides extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes as well as law reviews. Also includes business information on U.S. and international companies.
- Internal Revenue Code - Tax Code, Regulations, and Official GuidanceAccess the complete text of the US Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 of the US Code (26 USC), regulations and official guidance.
- SEC Website- Laws and RegulationsThis US Securities and Exchange Commission link provides an overview of how to research the securities law through the SEC website and is provided as a service to investors and members of the public.
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- Bloomberg Tax and Accounting Center This link opens in a new window
Offers practitioners analysis from outside experts, news, and primary sources. Includes practice tools covering federal, state, and international taxation, estate planning, and financial accounting.This link leads to the Tax section of the database; you can toggle to Accounting using the "Go To Products" dropdown menu at the top of the page. Each of the individual standards and regulations—AICPA, FASB, GASB, and ISAB—have a 1 simultaneous user limit. This database is accessible to faculty, students and staff affiliated with Fairfield University who register with a valid “fairfield.edu” email address permitting library resource access. First-time users must register here. Registration is good for one semester; you must re-register for every semester you need your account.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowFunded in part by the generosity of the Flora and Jeremiah Buckley Library Fund. Contains local, regional, national, and international news with deep archives. Provides extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes as well as law reviews. Also includes business information on U.S. and international companies.
- Supreme Court CenterFull-text Supreme Court opinion coverage from 1791 to the present.
- Supreme Court DocketThe Supreme Court's docket system contains information about cases, both pending and decided, that have been filed at the Court. The docket provided here contains complete information regarding the status of cases filed since the beginning of the 2001 Term.
- State of Connecticut Judicial Branch - Law Library ServicesConnecticut laws, ordinances, administrative decisions and regulations
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Library Databases
- AtoZdatabases This link opens in a new windowContains business profiles, residential listings, career advice, and more. Used to find employment information, market research, and demographic data.
- Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new windowProvides information on U.S. and international companies, industries and products.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowProvides financial details of active and inactive public companies plus private and international companies. Includes annual reports, industry reports, executive profiles, Mergent equity research reports, and global equity pricing data. Simultaneous user limit: 35.
- Morningstar Investment Research Center This link opens in a new windowOffers real-time access to trading data and independent analysis on investments, including mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds. With portfolio tools and calculators, investment articles, and videos. Simultaneous user limit: 2.
- Value Line This link opens in a new windowProvides research, data, analysis, information, and advice on stocks, options, securities, industries, stock market, and the economy. Includes ratings and reports, summary and index, selection and opinion, and the Value Line Investment Survey. Simultaneous user limit: 6.
Other
- SEC - Beginner's Guide to Financial StatementA breakdown of key financial terms.
- SEC EDGAR DatabaseU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission database.
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Library Databases
- Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new windowProvides access to competitive benchmarking data compiled from Dun & Bradstreet’s database of public and private companies.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowProvides financial details of active and inactive public companies plus private and international companies. Includes annual reports, industry reports, executive profiles, Mergent equity research reports, and global equity pricing data. Simultaneous user limit: 35.
- Morningstar Investment Research Center This link opens in a new windowOffers real-time access to trading data and independent analysis on investments, including mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds. With portfolio tools and calculators, investment articles, and videos. Simultaneous user limit: 2.
- Value Line This link opens in a new windowProvides research, data, analysis, information, and advice on stocks, options, securities, industries, stock market, and the economy. Includes ratings and reports, summary and index, selection and opinion, and the Value Line Investment Survey. Simultaneous user limit: 6.
Find Stock and Mutual Fund Analyses
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowProvides financial details of active and inactive public companies plus private and international companies. Includes annual reports, industry reports, executive profiles, Mergent equity research reports, and global equity pricing data. Simultaneous user limit: 35.
- Morningstar Investment Research Center This link opens in a new windowOffers real-time access to trading data and independent analysis on investments, including mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds. With portfolio tools and calculators, investment articles, and videos. Simultaneous user limit: 2.
- Value Line This link opens in a new windowProvides research, data, analysis, information, and advice on stocks, options, securities, industries, stock market, and the economy. Includes ratings and reports, summary and index, selection and opinion, and the Value Line Investment Survey. Simultaneous user limit: 6.
Use Compustat, CRSP, WRDS, and FactSet
Compustat provides accounting information for US firms. Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) provides access to market data for US firms. Both are accessed through the Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS). WRDS includes financial datasets such as company accounting information, stock price information, patent information, operational business information and more for firms and in the US and around the world. Fairfield University subscribes to these services through the Dolan School of Business and provides access to them for students and faculty of the university.
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AMA Manual of Style, 11th ed.Call Number: Online and Reference Main Level R119 .A533 2020ISBN: 9780190246556Click the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our AMA Citation Guide.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th ed.Call Number: Reference Main Level BF76.7 .P83 2020ISBN: 9781433832161Click the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our APA Citation Guide.
MLA Handbook, 9th ed.Call Number: Reference Main Level LB2369 .G53 2021ISBN: 9781603293518Click the title above to view the handbook. For help with this style, check out our MLA Citation Guide.
The Chicago Manual of StyleCall Number: Online and Reference Main Level Z253 .U69 2017ISBN: 9780226287058Click the title above to view the manual. Our Citation Guides can help with Chicago Notes-Bibliography style or Chicago Author-Date style.
IEEE Editorial Style Manual for Authors by Call Number: OnlineClick the title above to view the manual. For help with this style, check out our IEEE Citation Guide.
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