Accounting and finance

Associations

Association of Accounting Technicians

CPA Australia
Free membership for TAFE students

Financial Planning Association of Australia Limited (FPA)

Institute of Chartered Accountants 

      International Monetary Fund

National Institute of Accountants
Free membership for TAFE

Links & resources

Accounting

TAFE Studylinks

Accounting

Bremer Institute of TAFE's subject links

tutor2u - Accounting & finance study notes

Learn about business organisation, sources of finance, financial planning, accounting and managment, budgeting and more.

      Course resources - accounting and finance

North Coast Institute's web links

Directories

      Australian taxation index

      Tax and accounting sites directory Australia

Government information, standards and statutes

Auditing and Assurance Standards

      Australian Accounting Standards Board

Australian Government list of financial regulation websites

Australian Tax Office

Australian Securities and Investment Commission

Government budget 2009-2010

Includes economic and fiscal outlook, Treasurer's fact sheets and media releases.

NSW, The Treasury - Office of State Revenue

Provides information on land tax, unclaimed money, first home benefits & payroll tax.

Office of the Privacy Commissioner - Publications

Superannuation - australia.gov.au

Legislation & standards

      Australian accounting and auditing standards

Legal Research Links

Compiled by the High Court of Australia provides access to resources such as Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), the Australian legal information gateway WebLaw and the Native Title InfoBase.

Related subject guides

Small business

   eJournals, eBooks & other eResources

eJournals

Freely available journals

• Australian journal of management

• Financial standard daily email newsletter (Registration required)

• Journal of business systems, governance and ethics

For the entire list of free journals go to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) which provides access to over 100 free online journals on business and economics.

EBSCOhost

Click the link of one of the selected journals or EBSCOhost databases. Log in using your DET Username and password.

ANZRC

• Australia country review

• Australian journal of management

• Country commerce. Australia

• Kiplinger's personal finance magazine
• Money (14446219)

• Super review

Business Source Premier

• ABA banking journal

• Accountancy industry profile: Asia-Pacific

• Accounting & business research

• Accounting & finance

• Accounting forum

• Accounting today

• Journal of bank cost & management accounting

• Journal of accountancy

• Management accounting quarterly

Gale Cengage Learning

Click the link of Gale databases or one of the selected journals. Log in using your DET Username and password.

• Australian accounting review

• Australian banking & finance

• JASSA: the journal of the Securities Institute of Australia

• Management accounting quarterly

• Money management (Australia)

eBooks

Click the link of any of the examples and then click on "URL". Log in using your DET Username and password.

NetLibrary
• Accounting demystified

• Accounting for non-accountants

• Corporate social responsibility

eReference

Free eReference

Dictionary of Australian investment terms

Glossary - moneymanager.com.au

Oxford Reference Online - Premium

Log in using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to Economics & business.

Oxford Reference Online

• Dictionary of accounting

• Oxford companion to the High Court of

   Australia

Online videos

Free online videos

RAINMAKERiTV

Provides videos on trends and development in financial planning. A weekly program guide can be requested by email.

TVNews

Click the link to TVNews or one of the selected videos. Log in using your DET Username and password.

• Financial sector under scrutiny
• Crack down on money laundering

Training toolbox (Australian National Training Authority)

A balancing act – financial services (Certificate IV in Financial Services)

Certificate III in financial services

Financial services toolbox (Supports Certificate III in Financial Services)      

Click on 'URL' at the end of the description to access this training package which contains tutorials, quizzes and resources for your course. From home, log in using your DET username and password. You can view or download this resource.

A CD-ROM of the package may be available at your TAFE library.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website. Includes statistics and some analysis of information from the National Census and other sources.  Allows for the creation of local area profiles.

http://www.abs.gov.au/

Freely available

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered.

DET username and password required.

This multi-disciplinary database provides more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest.

DET username and password required.

Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier (BSP)is one of the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals. Full text coverage is provided in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

DET username and password required.

Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription is the 'General Reference Centre Gold'.

DET username and password required.

Kompass worldwide contains 2.3M companies in 70 countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords 860.000 trade names and 4.6M executive name.This freely available version does not include advanced search features and only provides brief company profiles.

http://www.kompass.com

MarketLine offers a comprehensive collection of company, industry and country information. MarketLine products include:

• Industry profiles for 50,000 public and private companies
• International and Australian company profiles
• Country profiles presenting easy-to-digest summaries and standardized data
• Key macro-economic, social, demographic and industry statistics for 215 countries
• News, comment and analysis on the latest business developments

Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).

Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith).

TVNews indexes and abstracts Australian news items, current affairs and documentaries from free-to-air networks since 2007. You can download video content straight to your desktop or flash drive. Most programs are available the next working day. Coverage includes: Lateline Business, Inside Business and all the major news broadcasts.

DET username and password required.