Recommended DVDs
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room byPublication Date: 2005When Enron went under in 2001, it took millions in employee retirement and benefits with it, while the guys at the top made off with everything. Viewers of the film will see the systematic accounting fraud which caused this collapse and the long-ranging effects it had on employees and their loved ones
- Shawshank Redemption byPublication Date: 1994An accountant in prison proves that knowing obscure tax loopholes can actually save your life and maybe even help you escape from prison. After being wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife and her lover, Andy learns to get extra protection from the prison guards by preparing their tax returns. After his escape, he implicates the corrupt warden for years of illegal bookkeeping.
- In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts byPublication Date: 2006
Ted Talks
Search for "Accounting" in TED Talks for about 50 video lectures.
Here are some featured videos:
- Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schoolsIn this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits — with the financing of education at the losing end.
- William Black: How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is)William Black is a former bank regulator who’s seen firsthand how banking systems can be used to commit fraud — and how “liar's loans” and other tricky tactics led to the 2008 US banking crisis that threatened the international economy.
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- CalisphereMore than 200,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
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- EuropeanaThis is a meta-catalog of cultural heritage collections from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. The catalogue includes books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings.
- Flickr CommonsAccess to publicly-held photography collections.
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- J. Paul Getty TrustThe Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.
- National Gallery of ArtNGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 37,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsNYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
- Old Book IllustrationsIllustrations scanned from books in the public domain
- PDPOSTERFun collection of public domain posters
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- ViintageFree public domain images.
- Wikimedia CommonsAlso includes sounds and videos.
Podcasts
Accounting Best Practices with Steve Bragg
The podcast has been downloaded more than 2.6 million times. It covers best practices and accounting standards, as well as accounting technology, acquisitions, controls, closing the books, financing, investor relations, metrics, payroll, and more.
To Listen click: http://www.accountingtools.com/podcasts/
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