More user-friendly, interactive, and powerful than ever before, this step-by-step guide to professional research is integrated with a NEW online suite of research tools, tutorials, demos, research cases, and links to accounting and business research sites and standards-setting organizations. Users can test their knowledge and research strategies with NEW, active-learning mid-chapter Practice Exercises and a NEW section of end-of-chapter Exercises in each chapter. Completely updated for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and principles- and rules-based standard setting. The fraud chapter 10 has been updated for the new SAS 99 fraud auditing standards and explains the AICPA's new anti-fraud program.