Library Resources - Accounting

The Library’s business collection supports student course work and the research of students and faculty.  Business materials are located primarily in the Raynor and Memorial Libraries, which contain over 800,000 volumes of books, bound journals, and microforms relating to the Humanities and Social Sciences.  Students may also use Marquette’s Law Library for regulatory and legal topics.

Print Collection Strengths

Books: The general business book collection includes over 80,000 items; this number encompasses the Library of Congress call number range H - HJ.  The collection is especially strong in the areas of economics, finance, management, marketing, and international trade and business.  English is the primary language for acquisition and current business trends and practices are emphasized.

Journals: The journal collection has been built by the faculty and librarians of the University over many years and new subscriptions are added regularly.  In addition, the Libraries are consciously trying to convert print journal subscriptions to electronic subscriptions, thereby improving access for all users. We have online subscriptions to all journals of the American Accounting Association.

Annual Reports to Shareholders and SEC filings

The Library houses a microfiche collection of the annual reports to shareholders for companies traded on the New York Stock and American Stock Exchanges.  Reports for some companies go back as far as 1953, and up to 1997.  We also have microfiche collections of proxy statements and 10-K reports, but these are less comprehensive. 

For electronic access to SEC documents (filings) and the data reported in them, the libraries subscribe to the database Thomson One Banker, which provides comprehensive online access back to 1993, with scattered older material (for a fuller description of the database, see below).  Thomson One Banker also provides access to annual reports and data for about 13,000 foreign companies (through the Worldscope database). We also subscribe to Compustat Global via WRDS – it provides access to numeric data for both U.S. and foreign companies (see below for more information about WRDS).

Electronic Resources

In addition to standard print materials, the Raynor Memorial Libraries maintain a growing number of electronic indexes, full text and data sources.  These are only available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.  Below is a list of database highlights (for a complete list, go to Articles, Databases, and Other E-resources). 

Of particular interest is WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services):  this is a data hosting and interface service that allows easy and uniform online access to various economic and financial numeric datasets (e.g. Compustat Global, CRSP, Global Insight, etc.).  Faculty and graduate students may also request individual accounts for storage space on the WRDS servers.

ABI/INFORM Global:  The oldest electronic general business article index, this database provides access to articles from over 1800 domestic and international business journals, with an emphasis on the scholarly literature.  Contains the full text for over half of the journals included in the database, beginning mostly in 1992.

Accounting & Tax Periodicals:  Features cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts to 300 key publications in accounting, auditing, and financial management from the U.S. and overseas.  Also included are citations to relevant articles from over 800 newspapers, business journals, dissertations, and news magazines, making this database an authoritative resource for accounting and financial information.  There is only limited full-text (~200 titles).

Accounting Research Manager:  Provides the official U.S. and international authoritative and proposal-stage literature for the fields of accounting and auditing (primary source data from accounting standards boards and regulators), and interpretive materials from CCH (various Aspen-Miller guides).

Business & Company Resource Center:  There are actually several databases in this portal-type database:  an article index to ~1300 business and trade magazines (strength is in the trade publications); a company directory; and a database of investment reports from financial analysts (Investext Plus).  In addition, there are industry encyclopedia articles and market research reports (Datamonitor Market Research Industry Reports).  Approximately half of the journals indexed are full-text beginning mostly in 1993.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network:   An information service that specializes in federal and state tax information, and includes international tax treaties.

Compustat Global:  a database of financial data on public companies and indexes from around the world.  It is available through the WRDS interface.

RIA Checkpoint:  A direct competitor to CCH's Internet Tax Research Network.

Thomson One Banker:   Full-text SEC filings, digital images of annual reports, and extracted financial and management information for more than 12,000 US public corporations, and ~13,000 foreign public companies (Worldscope).  We also have access to Thomson's Mergers & Acquisitions Deals data.  The database has a very powerful and sophisticated screening and reporting interface, and data can be easily downloaded in spreadsheet format.

Selected Internet Sites: Business & Economics

This web page is a selective list of active business-related web sites.  Here are some of the subject areas: accounting, e-commerce, economics, finance, human resources, industry, international trade, and marketing.  The sites are chosen, and the page maintained, by the Business Librarian.

Federal Depository Program

Marquette participates in the Federal Depository program, acquiring a variety of state and federal documents which assist particularly: business, marketing and demographic research; statistical studies, monitoring legislative and regulatory issues; and public affairs.  In addition, the Milwaukee Public Library (5 blocks away) is a full federal and patent depository library.

Special Services

This brief listing may be explored further in other areas of the Web site, but an enumeration of key privileges and services includes:

Raynor Memorial Libraries are open 104 hours per week during fall and spring semesters with 24/7 access to Raynor's first floor. (Click here for complete information on hours).

More than 275 networked computers in Raynor Memorial Libraries for access to online resources and software; full wireless coverage.

Semester long borrowing of monographic material; one-week borrowing of print periodicals; and online renewals. (Click here for more detail.)

Reference staff are available for consultation when you walk in or by appointment, phone, email, IM, etc. (Click here for more detail.)

Free interlibrary borrowing of articles and books.

Easy off-campus access to electronic journals, databases and other e-resources. (More details on Accessing Library E-Resources from Home.)

Brew @ the Bridge Café.

Self-service photocopiers with key card convenience.

Study carrels for graduate students by application.

Two PC-equipped teaching labs available for classes by appointment and for student use when not scheduled for classes.