George Durler
Associate Professor of Accounting
Selected Links on the Internet
Accounting Related Internet Links
- Accounting Organizations
- Standards Boards/ Other Boards of interest
- PCAOB Public Companies
Accounting Oversight Board a private, non-profit corporation,
created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- FASB Financial Accounting
Standards Board Home Page
- IASB International
Accounting Standards Board
- GASB Government Accounting
Standards Board Home Page (includes links to early adopters of GASB 34)
- FASAB Federal Accounting
Standards Advisory Board
- SEC Securities Exchange
Commission - U.S. Government agency with responsibility to
regulate
securities markets.
- COSO Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission, COSO is recognized the world
over for providing guidance on critical aspects of organizational
governance, business ethics, internal control, enterprise risk
management, fraud, and financial reporting.
- GAO -- Government
Auditing Standards (Yellow Book) Auditing standards to follow
when auditing any government entity
receiving federal funding.
- Kansas Board of
Accountancy -- regulates public accounting in Kansas, administers
CPA exam
- Kansas Division of
Accounts and Reports -- Administers local government financial
statement audits/reviews
- Accounting Web Resources
- Professional
Exams Information -- Dr. Durler's web page on various
accounting professinal exams and related preparatory programs.
- Financial Statements/Information
XBRL
Computer Information Systems Related Internet Links
- CIS Web Resources
- Information Systems Audit and
Control Association -- Founded in 1969, ISACA sponsors
international conferences, administers the globally respected CISA®
(Certified Information Systems Auditor™) designation earned by more
than 26,000 professionals worldwide, and develops globally applicable
information systems (IS) auditing and control standards
- Geographic
Information Systems web links (courtesy of Chuck Ziehr at
Northeastern State University). Pick GIS Day from Dr. Ziehr's
home page.
- How stuff works -
Interesting Web site that describes the workings of a variety of items,
including some emerging technology items.
- Webopedia --
Technology dictionary
- FreeAnswers.com --
Central web site for help questions regarding software from Microsoft,
Intuit, and Adobe (and maybe others by the time you use this site).
- Whatis.com
Technology terminology definitions at
whatis.techtarget.com
- Reserved for future links
Some links to help search the Internet
Some links to help find Software for your PERSONAL computer (Don't download to lab computers) (Please respect license
notifications) (I don't endorse any of these sites, but list them for
your assistance)
Other selected links--History of Computers and the Internet
- Homage
to Gary Kildall - Founder of Digital Research. The company that
gave personal computers
their first operating system, CP/M. (Be sure to scroll down and select
the
various links.)
- Grace Murray
Hopper - Pioneering women in society and in the computer
industry. An inspiration for anyone, men and women alike.
This link is to Yahoo!'s web site that
links to other sites with information about this remarkable woman.
- Home page of Dan Brickland
-- creator of the FIRST electronic spreadsheet, Visicalc, precursor to
Lotus 123, Excel and other spreadsheet software.
- Yahoo!'s links to Other pioneers in Computer
technology and the
Internet . While some may believe Bill Gates and Microsoft
have been the primary inovators of computer technology, those of us
that have been around a while know that their accomplishments have come
from the groundbreaking work of many of those listed on these
pages. I strongly encourage my students to investigate all the
people listed at these two site but some of special interest are:
Dr. Durler's Home page
AIS Home page
School
of Business Home Page
ESU Home
Page
Contact me at durlerge@emporia.edu with
comments.
Revised 06/04/2009