Accounting

Seeking Information

You can research the collection from the library's homepage. Simply type some key words into the search box, and it will generate a resource list from everything in the collection. If you get no results, try choosing different words, or a short phrase; typing in an entire question won't work.

When you have the list open in front of you, use the tick boxes to reduce the list to what you're looking for. Want Scholarly & Peer-Reviewed Articles but not Maps or Books or Newspaper articles? Easy. Be specific and save yourself time.

To save even more time, on the library homepage, click underneath the search box on the yellow text Advanced Search. Then, you can use a drop-down box to direct the search only to a specific subject, like finance, for your key words. This will generate a much shorter, more specific list of results, and the same directions about tick boxes still apply. Want to instantly access an ebook on finance in Canada? Done.

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Books and e-Books

Search the library catalogue to find books on the particular area of accounting you are looking for.  Use 'and' to connect your terms to narrow your search (ie accounting AND ethics). You can do keyword searches as well as subject searches, which utilize the Library of Congress Subject Headings to locate items on the same subject. Some relevant subject headings include:

• • finance, public -- Canada -- accounting
  • corporations -- accounting
  • agriculture -- accounting
  • managerial accounting
  • auditing

These same terms (and more) will work as keyword searches, but you will get many more (and possibly irrelevant) results using a keyword search. Try both and take it from there. If you search any term in the 'subject' field, the catalogue will try to suggest related subjects for you to try, as well as more sub-categories of the subject. Of course, if you know the title or author of a book, you can search the catalogue using those fields as well.  For broad categories like accounting, it might also be useful to search for the general subject heading of accounting combined with a keyword (or several) using 'and' using the 'advanced keyword search' option.

You can also do an 'advanced keyword search' and restrict the 'material type' to limit your search to a particular format (ie, e-books only).

Open Access Textbooks