Accountancy - Resources

Books

The majority of accountancy books are located on Floor 5 of The Sir Duncan Rice Library. General accountancy textbooks may be found at the shelfmark 657. Samples of company reports are shelved at 657.3 Fin. More specific shelfmarks are as follows:

Subject areaShelfmark

Financial reporting

657.3

Cost accounting

657.42

Auditing

657.45

Government

657.835

Corporations

657.95

General management

658

Financial management

658.15

Personnel management

658.3

Executive management

658.4

Marketing

658.8

To trace books in the Library on specific topics, use the title keyword option in Primo.  

Journals

Accountancy journals are shelved on Floor 2, Per 650.

  • Some print issues are shelved in Closed access stores and are available on request via the library catalogue.
  • Some titles are 24 hour loan.

We subscribe to a large number of full-text e-journals in this subject area. An alphabetical list is available on our web pages.

Other resources

Newspapers
A selection of daily national newspapers are available in The Sir Duncan Rice Library in print.
Lexis Nexis provides electronic access to all national and many regional UK newspapers from the mid 1980s to the present day. Click on the News tab to get to the newspaper section.

The Financial Times 1996- is only available from ABI/Inform Global

See also the section on newspapers.

Official publications
The Taylor Library has good holdings of UK Parliamentary Publications from Westminster, the Scottish Parliament and the European Union. These include a complete set of National Audit Office reports, Budget reports, Government Expenditure Plans, and all the EU tax legislation. There are specialist cd-rom indexes for these collections in the Taylor Library, and a great deal of information can be found in full text on the Government and Departmental Web pages: