Accounting: Accounting Standards & Websites

Establishes financial accounting and reporting standards for private companies.

Establishes and improves "standards of state and local governmental accounting and financial reporting that will result in useful information for users of financial reports and guide and educate the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of those financial reports."

Develops and sets global accounting standards known as International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

Provides access to headline news, recent stories and articles relevant to accounting and finance, research and resources, and helpful tools (calculators, forms, etc). Also provides free webinars. Free membership may be required to access certain parts of the site.

Allows you to search abstracts of research papers in accounting, many of which have free full-text versions that you can download.

An online dictionary of the terms used in accounting.

BEA collects and analyzes the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), personal income, corporate profits, and related economic measures.

BLS produces statistics on employment; consumer expenditures; prices and living conditions; wages and employee benefits; productivity and technological changes in U.S. industries; projections of economic growth, the labor force, and employment by industry and occupation.

Census publishes information on trade (retail and wholesale) and some service industries, construction activity, industrial output, capital expenditures, foreign trade, and the periodic Economic Censuses (including manufacturing, mineral industries, construction industries, retail and wholesale trade, service industries, and transportation).

Provides help for those preparing their taxes, a tax search, answers to tax questions, information on tax scams and tax issues, and more. See also their Tax Information for Tax Professionals.

Online dictionary of accounting terms.

Provides links to accounting organizations on the web, international accounting network sites, and other useful accounting resources

Provides information on accounting and auditing, ethics, international accounting, information for students and much more.

Provides tax factsheets, publications dealing with tax research, a tax model, a tax calculator, and more.