| Finding United States Accounting Standards (GAAP) Information on the Internet |
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| A Management Accounting Information Center article “Using the Internet to Research US Financial Accounting Standards” should help accountants in the use of the Internet to find US accounting standards. Please click here to go to the article. |
| Websites linked to from this page hopefully will help accountants gain access to Untied States-accepted accounting standards and practices. |
| A Management Accounting Information Center article “Internal Control and Auditing Information On the Internet” tries to show how the Internet can be useful to accountants involved in internal control processes and auditing. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
| Standard-setting organizations. |
| Accounting firms. |
| Publications. |
Use Y! to search on accounting standards |
| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Search the FASB’s Website Click here to search the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB)’s website, using your search terms. If you right click, a new window should open. Clicking will take you to a Yahoo Pipes page, at which you can enter terms, such as “codification”, “standards”, and "FAS 5”. Once a term (or terms) is entered, and you run the Pipe, the FASB’s website will be searched for information at the site containing the term (or terms) you use. Up to 20 results will be returned. Click on the results to get to the information. Yahoo’s search technology is being used to search the website. Generally, the major search engines’ search technology gives better results than the search engine being used at a website. |
| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Search the SEC’s Website Click here to search the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s website, using your search terms. If you right click, a new window should open. Clicking will take you to a Yahoo Pipes page, at which you can enter terms, such as “revenue recognition”, “lease accounting”, and "restatements”. Once a term (or terms) is entered, and you run the Pipe, the SEC’s website will be searched for information at the site containing the term (or terms) you use. Up to 20 results will be returned. Click on the results to get to the information. Yahoo’s search technology is being used to search the website. Generally, the major search engines’ search technology gives better results than the search engine being used at a website. |