Research Guides: Accounting and Auditing: Find Standards and Practices

Standards

Financial Accounting Standards Board.
This home page includes the status, summaries, and full text of all official statements and interpretations, the full text of exposure drafts, staff positions, and technical bulletins as well as other information. Access to the full text of the standards is free to accountancy faculty and students at George Washington University. In order to obtain the user name and password, please ask the Accountancy Department.
Government Auditing Standards
Most recent revision by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
Includes summaries of statements, concepts statements, and interpretations (under technical issues/summaries/status) and the full text of proposed standards (under standards & guidance at the top and then under pronouncements..
International Financial Reporting Standards
Location: REF HF5681.B2I58 (Eariler editions in stacks).
Official pronouncements.
International Accounting Standards Committee. International Accounting Standards.
Each standard has its own call number for locating it. In order to bring up all the standards in the local catalog, search "International Accounting Standards Committee" (including quotation marks) as a key word.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Management Advisory Services: Guideline Series.
Location: HF 5657 .M23
Transacc: Transnational Accounting. Second Edition.
Location: WRLC Storage HF 5626 .T72 2001
This four volume work, "is designed to give a comprehensive and reliable understanding of all accounting issues in an international context". There is a "reference matrix summarizing national rules on a comparative basis " and also a glossary for twelve languages. In addition to the European Union and the IASC [International Accounting Standards Committee], nineteen countries are covered.