External Audit - Accounting / Tax Resources

Kirchman Compliance Handbook (Login Required)
Financial accounting standards for financial institutions: including easy to read and understand FASB pronouncements, audit committee requirements and charters and IRS regulations. A must for any CFO

Pocket Guide for Directors
A guide to help directors of financial institutions meet their responsibilities in a changing financial marketplace

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

FASB: Financial Accounting Research System
The accounting standard setting body

FDIC Institutional Directory
Compare a bank to local competition, peer groups

FDIC Law, Regulations, Related Acts

FDIC’s guides for Sound Corporate Governance Practices

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Councils (FFIEC)

Financial Accounting Standards Board

GeorgiaNet
Official Code - Unannotated Keyword Search

Georgia Department of Banking & Finance

Georgia Department of Revenue
Tax Information

OCC’s guides for Sound Corporate Governance Practices

SEC Information for Accountants
Information for accountants issued by the SEC.

Searchable data base of SEC filings
See how others have handled your troublesome disclosures and accounting issues

Accounting Dictionary
An accounting dictionary to help you understand accounting and auditing terminology

Activities Permissible for a National Bank
OCC list of permissible activities for national banks and, state law permitting, for state banks. May help bankers comply with Section 24 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

	Other Resources:

Aspen Publishers: Accounting Research Manager

RIA: WG&L Financial Reporting & Management Research

• Accounting Standards Team - AICPA
• Audit and Attest Standards Team - AICPA

The Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Responsibility Act of 2002 (Login Required)

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	Taxes

Nichols, Cauley & Associates Tax Newsletter

Internal Revenue Service - Home Page
searchable by entity or publication

RIA Tax Service
Access tax news about federal, state, and local taxes; pension and benefits; estate planning; international spotlight; and Washington D.C. highlights.

CCH Tax Service
Access legislative, global, federal and state, human resource, business law, and health/medical news

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