Information Services Newsletter
Faculty of Business and Management

New Information Sources for Accountancy 

Staff and students now have library access to the up-to-date CHARIOT CD-ROM produced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI). The CD-ROM is the main advice tool for Chartered Accountants in Ireland and contains full-text information on relevant company legislation and accounting standards for both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. CHARIOT (Chartered Accountants Reference and Information Tool) replicates the contents of the Institute’s six-volume member’s handbook. Copies of the CD-ROM are available for consultation from the Issue Desks at Coleraine and Magee as well as from the Information Point in the Jordanstown Learning Resource Centre (LRC).

Also on CD-ROM, the Library has recently purchased a copy of GAAP Xtra which is an extensive financial reporting resource. It contains all UK and International Accounting standards, Companies Acts and Auditing Standards, along with over 1,500 pages of practical advice from the current GAAP. To provide research support to the School of Accounting, GAAP Xtra is available for consultation at the Information Point in Jordanstown’s LRC.

Database Developments

There have been a number of recent developments regarding our range of business databases.

• Access to the FAME database of UK/Irish company accounts and financial ratios is now available on the Web. This allows greater search flexibility as well as off-campus access using your ATHENS username/password.

• The range of full-text market reports available through the Mintel database service has increased significantly. All UK and Ireland standard reports are now accessible along with the complete range of Travel and Tourism Intelligence Reports – totalling nearly 500 individual reports.

• The database ‘Articles in Hospitality and Tourism’ is soon to merge with another database, ‘Lodging, Restaurant and Tourism Index’, and is to be re-launched as Hospitality & Tourism Index. This new service will be a key database in supporting teaching and research in the School of Hotel, Leisure and Tourism.

• The Lexis-Nexis database contains a wealth of full-text business and newspaper sources as well as legal information. It includes access to many important business journals which are not available to us elsewhere in electronic form, such as Harvard Business Review. It also recently added some important Irish company databases such as ICC Financial Analysis Reports and ICC Directory of Irish Companies. A username/password is available from the Library or our electronic information web pages.

Gerard McFall