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Featured Research Guide: Accounting

What are Research Guides?

You may have noticed "Research Guides by Subject" on the library's home page...  But have you ever wondered what these research guides ARE?

Research guides are special subject guides that pull together a lot of different library resources in one place...  based on specific subjects being taugh on campus.  You will have a "one-stop-shop" for your research needs, and a way to get in touch with the librarian who works with those materials. 

About the Accounting Guide

The Accounting guide provides you with resources for all types of research in Accounting.  There is a list of new books, a suggested list of databases where you can search for articles and company financial reports, and also a large collection of reference materials (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) both in print and available electronically. 

The Accounting guide also directs you to books that provide auditing case studies, accounting fraud and research methods in Accounting.

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Grace Before Dying

Grace Before Dying
Photographs by Lori Waselchuk

A life sentence in Louisiana means life. More than 85% of the 5,100 inmates imprisoned at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are expected to die there. Until the hospice program was created in 1998, prisoners died mostly alone in the prison hospital. Their bodies were buried in shoddy boxes in numbered graves at the prison cemetery. But the nationally recognized program, run by one staff nurse and a team of inmate volunteers, has changed that.

http://www.roosevelt.edu/gagegallery

Guatemala Film Series

The Murray-Green Library 
and 
The Association of Latin American Students 

Present

GUATEMALA FILM SERIES 

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 2:00PM-4:00PM Room # AUD410 
 Devils Don't Dream! 
A Flim by Adreas Hoessli 
The story of the 1954 U.S. backed military coup against democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz that led to four decades of civil war. 

Friday, March 30, 2012 - 2:00PM-4:00PM Room # AUD528 
 When the Mountains Tremble 
Civil war in Guatemala; the story of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. Describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a heritage of state and foreign oppression. 

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 2:00PM-4:00PM Room #AUD410 
GRANITO: HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR 
Part political thriller, part memoir, GRANITO shadows a haunting crime across four decades. Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in GRANITO are connected by the Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in a war where a genocidal "scorched earth" campaign by the military exterminate nearly 200,000 Maya people. 

Friday, April 13, 2012 - 2:00PM-4:00PM Room # AUD528 
Somos Una América: Shut Down the SOA! 
This film provides background on the School of the Americas and the campaign to shut it down, and then Somos Una América moves further: the film puts a spotlight on U.S. militarization and features the voices of a rising hemisphere-wide anti-militarization movement. 

Wednesdays will be in room AUD410, 2:00PM-4:00PM 
Fridays will be in room AUD528, 2:00PM-4:00PM

Contact information
Richard Uttich, University LIbrarian at 312-341-3460, ruttich@roosevelt.edu
The Association of Latin American Students, alas.roosevelt@gmail.com

 

Featured Resources in Accounting: Income Tax Resources

As we enter tax season, here are is just a small selection of resources that the RU Library has about income taxes and taxation policies.  For more books on income taxes, click HERE.

Taxation, tax policies and income taxes

From the publisher:  Using empirical methods, this volume examines a broad range of subjects including tax evasion, tax policies' effect on the dispersion of wages, and property and corporate taxation. Articles vary between specific case studies and consideration of larger issues, but mainly focus on the issues of fiscal policies and tax administration. Not confined to issues in the United States, there are chapters on the effects of income tax systems on homeowner mobility in Japan and on labor supply decisions in Italy.

Warren J. Berube and Camron N. Pinto, editors

Call Number: AUD HJ192.5 .T39 2010 

Tax policy lessons from the 2000s

 

From the publisher:  Viard, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has edited this analysis of the American tax system and how it holds up against the latest global financial crises. Expert commentators discuss such topics as the implementation of environmental taxes as a response to climate change, the impact on taxation on entries and exits in the labor market and how the "elasticity" of taxable income influences tax policy design in a profound way. Designed for policymakers who must confront issues of taxation, this book uses theoretical models and statistics to support its recommendations for the future of tax codes in the United States.

editor, Alan D. Viard

Call Number: AUD HJ2381 .T378 2009

Federal income tax : a student's guide to the Internal Revenue Code

From the publisher: A concise, single-volume work which explains the technical workings, Code provisions and common law tax rules and principles that apply to individual taxpayers. The text suggests rationales and underlying policies for many of the tax areas covered in a basic tax course. Designed for students taking a basic course in income taxation and those taking advanced tax courses who desire an accessible explanation of a personal income tax doctrine relating to their studies.

Call Number: SCH KF6369 .K3 2005

Roosevelt Reading Series

The RU MFA Program is hosting a Reading Series at the Gage Gallery.  Tonight's reading will feature Janet Wondra and Regina Buccola, who will be reading selections from their own poetry.

Janet Wondra will be reading from her new book, Bad Attitude and Regina Buccola will be reading from her book Conjuring. 

The reading will be held at the Gage Gallery, Thursday, February 16. Doors open at 4:30, reading begins at 5. Get there early for food and drink!

To read more about the MFA Reading Series, visit the RUMFA blog!

Featured Resources in Accounting: Reference Books

Accounting Reference Books

Reference books are essential to your research needs.  Reference books can provide you with qualitative data, as well as working definitions and terms as they are used in the context of your specific discipline.  This month, we are featuring resources useful for Accounting majors, and research in accounting.  Here are a few of our resources, come to the library to search for more.

Accountants' Handbook

From the publisher:  "this highly regarded reference is relied on by a considerable part of the accounting profession in their day-to-day work. This handbook is the first place many accountants look to find answers to practice questions. Its comprehensive scope is widely recognized and relied on. It is designed as a single reference source that provides answers to all reasonable questions on accounting and financial reporting asked by accountants, auditors, bankers, lawyers, financial analysts, and other preparers and users of accounting information."

Edited by D.R. Carmichael, O. Ray Whittington, Lynford Graham.

Call Number:  REF. HF5621 .A22 2007

Dictionary of Accounting Terms

From the publisher: "this reference explains 2,500 terms used in financial accounting, managerial and cost accounting, auditing, financial statement analysis, tax preparation, and economics. Appropriate for college students and business professionals, the topics include capitalization, deferred charge, gross domestic product, hedge fund, market value method, stock option, and value added tax."

Edited by Joel G. Siegel, Jae K. Shim.

Call Number:  REF. HF5621 .S54 2005

The ultimate accountants' reference : including GAAP, IRS & SEC regulations, leases, and more

From the publisher: "The Ultimate Accountants’ Reference Including GAAP, IRS & SEC Regulations, Leases, and More, Second Edition updates you on the latest accounting regulations for all aspects of the financial statements, accounting management reports, and management of the accounting department including best practices, control systems, and the fast close. This is the perfect daily answer book for the practicing accountant."

Edited by Steven M. Bragg

Call Number: REF. HF5616.U5 B713 2006 

Featured Research Guide: Women's and Gender Studies

What are Research Guides?

You may have noticed "Research Guides by Subject" on the library's home page...  But have you ever wondered what these research guides ARE?

Research guides are special subject guides that pull together a lot of different library resources in one place...  based on specific subjects being taugh on campus.  You will have a "one-stop-shop" for your research needs, and a way to get in touch with the librarian who works with those materials. 

About the Women's and Gender Studies Guide

The Women's and Gender Studies research guide is your portal to all elements of research in WGS.  There is a list of new books, a suggested list of databases where you can conduct your WGS scholarly article searches, and an indispensible collection of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) both in print and available electronically. 

The Women's and Gender Studies Guide provides you access to writing and research on feminist theory, gender, women and social conditions, and much more.  Also included in the WGS research guide is a page dedicated to upcoming conferences and calls for WGS papers.

To visit the Women's and Gender Studies research guide, click the image below: