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In this section, you will find essential resources available for the subject area of Accounting and Finance. You can locate print books and have access to electronic books, journal articles, and databases. In order to access electronic books, journals, and databases you will need to use your institutional login. There is also a range of open access resources freely available online.
Accounting and Finance Key Subject Resources
There are many different resources available to help with your wider reading and research. You can access some of them directly from this page and some of them through Library Search.
Box of Broadcasts
This is an academically-focused database of television and radio programmes which allows you to watch programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; you can also access its archive containing over 3 million broadcasts.
The Economist (direct access, not in Library Search)
Weekly magazine focusing on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology. Please register using your university email and contact us if you are having issues with access.
FAME (direct access, not in Library Search)
FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) contains comprehensive information on both public and private companies across the UK and Ireland. Please log in with your username and password.
IBISWorld
IBISWorld provides industry intelligence that analyses the environment of over 400 UK industries using the five-digit level of the UK Standard Industrial Classification (UKSIC). Each industry report provides detailed performance data and analysis on the market, supply chain, operating strengths and weaknesses, external drivers, major player market strategies, industry profit and cost structure benchmarks. Reports Include financial data.
LexisPlus
LexisPlus is the largest collection of UK law, up-to-date legislation, case law, commentary and comprehensive practical guidance.
MarketLine Company and Industry Profiles
Provides accurate and up-to-date research reports on companies, industries, and countries across the global market.
Westlaw
Westlaw is a dynamic, ever-growing and easily searchable source of case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal materials.
Accounting and Finance Useful External Resources
The resources below are external links, not provided or subscribed to by the University. Therefore, we are not able to guarantee continuity of access. Please contact us to let us know if they are not accessible anymore.
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
The global body for professional accountants. Provides information, advice and resources including syllabuses, study guides, past exam papers and more.
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
The world’s leading and largest professional body of management accountants helping individuals and businesses to succeed by harnessing the full power of management accounting and accounting for business.
This is a government agency providing free company information including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual returns, officers, charges, business activity, and more.
The Government's HM Treasury releases a large range of statistics including forecasts for the UK economy, weekly economic indicators, statistics on public spending and finance, gross domestic product deflators.
London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges and can trace its history back more than 300 years. London Stock Exchange Group was created in October 2007 when London Stock Exchange merged with Milan Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana.
Accounting and Finance Study and Exam Skills
Developing a range of academic skills is an essential part of ensuring success in your studies and future employment. Explore our Study Skills section and book an online appointment if you require support.
If you are taking exams, folow the steps below for success.
Before the exam:
- Well before the exam, make sure you clearly mark the date, time and venue of the exam in your diary or calendar
- Make sure you know in plenty of time before the exam what is expected of you and prepare accordingly
- Try and get a good night’s sleep the night before the exam
- On the day, make sure you arrive at the right place and in plenty of time
- Think positively; this is an opportunity to demonstrate what you have been learning
- Have a clear strategy for tackling the exam paper
During the exam:
- Be sure to write your name and/or exam number on all of your answer sheets
- Check the back of the exam paper for important information or instructions
- Scan the paper for questions that you feel you can confidently answer and mark them
- Read the questions all the way through before starting
- Tackle your best question first as this will help you get started
- Make a brief plan for any essay type question before you begin
- Make a note of any new thoughts that occur whilst writing
- Make sure you answer all the questions you need to
- Allow yourself plenty of time to answer each question - try and stick to the times you have allocated to yourself to answer each question during the exam
- Manage your time well so that you can answer as many questions as possible
- Give equal time to questions that carry equal marks, and more time to any that carry extra marks
- Try to give reasonable answers to the given number of questions
- It is better to at least make an attempt at answering all the questions than spending all your time on one question and completely miss out on answering other questions
- If you run out of time you have allocated for one of your answers, then leave a space so that you can return to it later
- Do not write everything you know about a topic but answer the specifics of each question
Remember, examiners are interested in how you:
- Make sense of the question
- Relate it to the course
- Develop a line of reasoning
- Evaluate opposing viewpoints
- Offer evidence that supports your argument