Welcome! The purpose of this guide is to help Accounting 101 students find useful subject links and helpful resources.
Please feel free to contact the your Faculty Liaison Librarian, Sue Rionda , if you need more help.
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Online Access to Financial News Sources is possible via PressReader & Access Global NewsBank
Watch this useful video tutorial for help with using Access Global Newsbank.
Access Global NewsBank provides direct access to newspapers such as Business Day, Financial Mail, the Sunday Times, The Herald & The Sowetan as well as to Newspapers & Magazines from around the world.
NewsBank's Hot Topics are current research topics covering key global issues, events & people about business, economics, crime, politics, science, health, sports, the arts and more.
Click here to access Hot Topics in Business & Economics (The latest topics and stories impacting the United States and global economy business trends).
See the February 2024 Hot Topics (pdf) to get an overview of recent current world events.
Please ask your Librarian if you need help
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To find the information that you need for your writing tasks and course portfolios, try some of the websites suggested on the Accounting Subject Guide
Useful websites will include:
1. Identify Search Terms
The first step in searching for information for your topic is identifying keywords/search terms. Library databases require you to enter keywords into the search box because entering an entire essay topic/question will not be as effective and may likely return poor or even no results at all. The keywords/search terms you use are critical in determining the relevance of the results that you will retrieve. Examples of the keywords/search terms you may use are:
"Financial statements"
inventories
"Trade payables"
"Trade receivables"
"bank reconciliations"
2. Creating a Search Statement
To retrieve the most relevant search results, you will need to construct a search statement.
A search statement is a combination of the keywords/search terms that you enter into the search box of a database. You use Connecting Words to link the keywords/search terms. Connecting Words are AND, OR and NOT.
Connecting keywords/search terms & using phrases to improve your search:
Use * to replace a letter or shorten a word to retrieve all versions of the word.
Search statement examples:
inventor* AND (bad OR doubtful) AND debt
"South Africa" AND "financial statements"
account* AND "bank reconciliations"
3. Using Search Statements
These Search Statements can be used to find appropriate textbook sources and articles on Search All as well as on relevant library databases and websites.
Reference Sources are a useful place to begin a search to gain an understanding of the topic. The Bibliography of a Reference Source can also point you in the direction of useful material.
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Welcome to Mdumiseni’s video course in the basics of accounting. This course introduces the viewer to the most important principles in accounting. While this course is complicated and requires some understanding of mathematical principles, it is an introductory level course in that no prior background or experience in accounting is required.Best of luck and we welcome your feedback.
This course covers the fundamental principles of double-entry accounting, use of the general journal and general ledger, simple financial statements, the accounting cycle, control of cash, and an introduction to payroll accounting, purchases and sales.
Course Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the double-entry accounting system.
2. Manually complete the entire accounting cycle for a service- based sole proprietorship on the accrual basis.
3. Prepare basic financial statements for a service-based sole proprietorship.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of control of cash processes and bank reconciliations.
5. Calculate basic payroll and payroll tax activity.
6. Prepare simple federal quarterly and annual payroll tax forms.