This guide gives a basic introduction to Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, and Management resources available at Perdana Library.

Business/ Finance Books: DCC Classification

The following DCC classification numbers are of particular interest to students of the Business Administration and Accounting & Finance programs:

• Accounting 657, 658
• Advertising 659
• Auditing 657.45
• Banking 332
• Business Communications 658.45
• Business Ethics 174.4
• Business Law 346.73
• Business Research Methods 650, 808
• Business Statistics 519.5
• Business Studies 658
• Consumer Behaviour 658.8342
• Cost Accounting 657.42
• Economics 330
• E-Business 658.84
• Electronic Commerce 650.0285, 658.84
• Enterpreneurship 658.022
• Finance 332, 658.15
• Financial Accounting 657
• Human Resource Management 658.3
• Information Systems 003
• International Business 382
• Management 658
• Management Information Systems 658.4038
• Management Science 658.5
• Managerial Accounting 658.151
• Marketing 658.8
• Organizational Behaviour 158.7
• Project Management 658.404, 005.12
• Public Relations 659.2
• Quantitative Methods 658.5
• Strategic Management 658.4012
• Taxation 336.2

Journals, Magazines & Reference Materials

Printed journals are available in R3-3. You can browse through at ease.

Some journals are available in CD-ROMs. The CD-ROM discs are available from the Librarian. You will need to ask staff for the discs and leave your Student ID behind. Results and articles from a standalone CD-ROM search can be printed out onto the attached printer or at sometimes saved to a disc.

The Reference collection consisting of dictionaries, yearbooks, conference proceedings, and other key general reference resources, are kept on a separate section in R3-3 and R3-4A.

Useful dictionaries are:
• Oxford Dictionary of Economics
• Oxford Dictionary of Accounting
• Dictionary of Business
• Dictionary of Personnel Management
• Dictionary of Marketing & Advertising

Internet Resources

Listed below is a brief selection of Internet resources. You may use the Library’s Webpages to visit a catalogue of useful Internet Resources, for a variety of subject areas.

1. Accounting, Economics, & Finance
   • Biz/ed: A dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers.
   • BUBL: BUBL's world-wide web subject tree in economics.
   • Money Web: a comprehensive UK personal finance site, includes essays about compliance and the internet, introductions to mortgages, tax tables, investment conditions since the 1970s, investment fundamentals, stocks and shares.
   • Economics Internet Resources - A selection of links to websites covering all aspects of economics.
   • Economics from BUBL - A selection of interesting web sites.
   • Internet Economist - A free "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for economists. It covers the key information skills for the Internet environment including how to use the Internet to help with coursework, literature searching, teaching or research.
   • WebEc - WWW resources in Economics - WebEc is a gateway for sites on economics, covering all aspects of the subject including microeconomics, macroeconomics, financial economics, public economics, health and welfare, employment and demographics and industrial organization.
   • Financial Times - An excellent resource of daily news and opinion which goes well beyond the content of the printed edition.
   • Forbes - Financial and business news from Forbes Magazine.
   • Reuters - Financial news from all the world.
   • Carol - A free corporate on-line service offering one point access to Company Annual Reports on-line, from the UK, Europe and Asia, and a range of other investor information.
2. Advertising, Marketing, & Public Relations
   • Advertising World: The most extensive collection of advertising-related links on the Web!
   • SOSIG Social Science Information Gateway Links to - Advertising>, Marketing, and Public Relations.
3. Management, HRM, & Operations Management
   • Human Resource Management Resources on the Internet.
   • Institute of Management: Links to sites under the heading of 'Managing People'.
   • HR Links: A directory of over 250 sites maintained by the Australian Human Resources Institute.
   • SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway Links to informative web sites on HRM.
   • Human Resource Management Guide
   • The Technology & Operations Management Portal
   • Operations Management Center - Links to articles and resources.
   • Emerald Coolsites - A selection of indexed reviews of the best of the web. Every site receives a quality rating, while all the major aspects of management are covered.
   • ManagementFirst - It contains everything one needs to develop management skills with training and development-related case studies, articles and book and web reviews. Also available are lively discussion forums, a monthly newsletter to download, and Article and Guru Interview.
   • Management link - Developed by the Management Information Centre at the Institute of Management, brings together management sites available on the Internet. There are two main sections to this resource. “The Management Skills Directory” and “The Management Sources Directory”, which focuses on resources of management information such as professional and government bodies and research resources.
4. General Business; Research Methods
   • Business Researcher’s Interests - A premier knowledge resource and global community network for Business Technology, Information Economy, and, Knowledge Management executives, professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs. It is the largest, deepest, and most reputed resource on leading-edge knowledge in these practice areas.
   • Business Sources on the Net - Produced by the British Library, this is a listing, split into subsection, of sites of value to business researchers.
   • Researching Companies Online - This business research tutorial presents a step-by-step process for finding free company and industry information on the Internet.
   • Resource Discovery Network - The RDN is a collaboration of over seventy educational and research organizations that gathers subject resources which are carefully selected and indexed.
   • Research Papers in Economics - The site provides access to a database of database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available. The RePEc database holds over 150,000 items, with more than 55,000 available online.
   • Links to Online Working Papers - Maintained by the Judge Institute of Management library, this website includes links to UK, and overseas academic institutions, as well as, other relevant organizations, which provide the fulltext of their working papers online.
   • Yahoo: business and economy - It covers almost every aspect of business, economics, finance.
   • BBC Business News - An excellent resource of worldwide business news.
   • The Glossarist - Definitions of business terms and phrases.
   • Investor Word - Definitions of business and investment term.
   • Business Ethics
   • InfoLaw: A gateway to legal resources
   • SOSIG: Online catalogue of internet resources relevant to social science, education and research.