Finance and Accounting

Welcome to the Finance and Accounting subject guide.
Here, you will find all the useful resources for your studies and research in these fields. Don’t forget to also check the general resources, as they may offer relevant documents for your work.

Your research starts here

Sustainability accounting and accountability
Corporate finance. 6th edition, global edition
Intermediate accounting : IFRS edition. Fourth edition

Resources by type of documents

Encyclopedias

 

  Encyclopedia in Finance (3rd ed, 2022)

The Encyclopedia of Finance comprehensively covers the broad spectrum of terms and topics relating finance from asset pricing models to option pricing models to risk management and beyond.

 Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance

The definitive reference to quantitative finance, written by the leading academics and practitioners in the field

  Universalis

New to Finance and Accounting ? Want to easily understand the major theories ? Universalis is here for you, with articles written by top experts in the field.

Dictionaries

 

A Dictionary of Accounting (5 ed.)

 

  A Dictionary of Finance and Banking (6 ed.)

 

  Oxford English Dictionary Online

Regarded as the recognized authority on the English language. This guide covers the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 500,000 words—both past and present—from the English-speaking world

  Investopedia

The world’s leading online source for financial content — from market news to retirement strategies and investment education. Includes a comprehensive online dictionary.

ValueLine

Finance Glossary in English
A comprehensive glossary covering key financial terms and concepts in English — ideal for students, researchers, and professionals seeking clear definitions in the field of finance.

Business Source Premier

Subject area: Management, Economics, Finance, Accounting, International Business, and Marketing.

Types of data: Articles, national economic reports, and detailed company profiles.

  Emerald Journals

Subject area: Business, Management & Strategy; Accounting, Finance & Economics; Marketing; Corporate management.

Types of data : Full text of over 300 journals.

  EconLit

Subject area: capital markets, national studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and many others

Types of data: Journal articles, Books, Collective volume articles, Theses, Working papers, Full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.

  ABI/INFORM Collection

Subject area: Commerce, Management techniques, Business strategies, Industry worldwide.

Types of data : newspaper articles (e.g., Financial Times), trade publication articles, scholarly journal articles, country information, company annual reports, doctoral dissertations and master’s theses, as well as management case studies.

Access the books and ebooks currently cited in the collections by discipline on Swisscovery.

To search only for ebooks, filter your Swisscovery search by Online.

Emerald Insight

Database on management, marketing, economics, finance, human resources and business management, with access to almost a thousand books.

Oxford Scholarship Online

Direct access to the ebook collection Economics, Management & Marketing

 Cairn.Info

Streaming access (and sometimes download) to the entire collection of:

Économie et Gestion et notamment : Economie financière & Finances publiques

UniNE subscribes to many electronic journals.

Some basic Journals in Finance and Accounting:

Explore more journals in the databases listed below

ScienceDirect Elsevier

Access to the entire Freedom Collection of over 2,300 titles, including Accounting, Organizations and Society. Consult the list of titles available in ScienceDirect

Emerald Insight

Database providing access to the full texts of some 300 periodicals in the following fields: Business, Management & Strategy; Accounting, Finance & Economics; Marketing; Corporate Management, …

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The Swisscovery collections include all the essential journals, sorted by discipline

Through the library, you can access individual newspapers or search in multiple newspapers at once!

 The Economist

A leading British weekly news magazine with a global reputation. It covers international news comprehensively and addresses economic, political, social, and cultural issues.

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Reports on news, ideas and trends affecting industry and the economy for those in business management, with national and international coverage

Financial Times

The New York Times

 

 At the Library

  • The Economist [Cote P 333]
  • Bloomberg Businessweek [Cote P467]
  • Financial Times au coin presse à la salle des ordinateurs

And more …

  CEPR ( Centre for Economic Policy Research) :

Subject area: Economics

Types of data: research works, Discussion papers, Ebooks,

SSRN: Social Science Research Network

Subject area: social science, humane science, sciences of life, health science

Types of data: Preprints dedicated to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Access to working papers, BIS Papers, conference materials; explore trending topics and a selection of journal publications by BIS economists.

A collection of open-licensed or free textbooks and materials that can be used to enhance teaching and learning.

You’ll find a selection of available Open Educational Resources (OER), though this is not an exhaustive list.

OpenStax

OpenStax is the world’s largest publisher of Open Educational Resources (OER) and a provider of interactive learning and educational research technologies for secondary and higher education. It is a non-profit initiative of Rice University.

  OER Commons – Accounting

OER Commons is a public digital library and collaboration platform dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER).

Open Yale Courses

Open Yale Courses offers free access to a selection of introductory courses taught by leading professors and academics at Yale University.

Resources by topic

Companies

Business Market Research Collection

Database combining Hoover’s, OxResearch, Barnes Reports and Snapshots sources.

Type of data: Company profiles, financial data, competitors and executives, articles, U.S. and international market and industry reports, market research.

In the advanced search, enter your search term and then select the type of document (e.g. Company Profiles)

Business Source Premier – Company profiles

Subject area: Companies, Industry, Country Information and Market research

Type of data: Company fact sheets, research reports by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Wahrton School.

Country

Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online

Type of data: current economic and social statistics for over 200 countries and territories worldwide

Country reports – Business Source Premier

   Business Source Premier – Industries Profiles

  Federal Finance Administration (FFA)

The Federal Finance Administration (FFA) produces public finance and social insurance statistics in Switzerland. Alongside the Federal Statistical Office, the Swiss National Bank, and other federal and cantonal agencies, it is one of the main official statistics providers in the country.

 UNData

Users can search for and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the UN statistical system and other international organizations.

 

 Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Data on the global financial system, compiled with central banks and national authorities, supporting analysis of financial stability and global liquidity.

 

 FMI

IMF data portal, with a new test access coming soon. Includes financial datasets, International Financial Statistics, and government finance data. This platform allows users to explore global financial trends and visualize key financial statistics.

 

 World Bank Data

Free access to worldwide development data

    • Catalog of open data, Help to search in DataCatalog
    • Database DataBank. DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.
    • The Microdata Library is a collection of datasets from the World Bank and other international, regional and national organization
    • Finances One. Access to comprehensive information on financial results, procurement, lending, and more of World Bank Group’s (WBG) public financial data – all in one platform.

 Accounting results of Swiss companies

Some basic search terms that you can use with Swisscovery UniNE to bring up results about sustainable finance:

  • (corporate social responsibility) AND (sustainable finance)
  • (corporate social responsibility) AND (green finance OR green investment)
  • (corporate social responsibility) AND (financial management)
  • (corporate social responsibility) AND (sustainability)

  Google Finance

Provides both public and privileged information on stock performance, company-specific news, earnings summaries, key valuation ratios, and stock option contracts. Also includes market performance data. Users can select and save their portfolio choices by logging into Google.

 

  MarketWatch

Offers information on market and individual stock performance, along with current financial news. MarketWatch is part of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network.

 

 FRED Economic data – Commodities

Economic and commodity market data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

  WorldBank – Commodity markets

Commodity market data provided by the World Bank.

 

InvestoPedia Financial Dictionary

A comprehensive financial dictionary offering clear definitions of financial and investment terms.

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