Who you gonna click? A survey of the many options for tax and accounting research

摘要

Ted Needleman is senior director of the Technical Services Division of Industry Analysts Inc., an independent market research firm and testing laboratory. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Accounting Technology, and writes frequently on software, hardware, and technology-related subjects. That means hitting the books for the latest read on a law or standard that affects the way that a transaction should be approached. Back in the day, "books" meant just that: loose-leaf services with binders that had to be updated on a regular basis to reflect new laws and tax cases, new analyses, and corrected errors in pages already filed. Even today, paper manuals are still common, especially analyses of recently passed legislation or court findings.