Dear CCH Learning Center Subscriber,
Welcome to the June 2006 issue of Focus on Learning, the monthly newsletter for the CCH Learning Center, in which we provide insights on how to use the Learning Center to your full advantage. In each issue, we highlight a course or series of courses on a timely topic, as well as advise you of new courses released in the CCH Learning Center. We also inform you of new features, provide helpful tips on existing features, and help you use the CCH Learning Center to meet your professional development and CPE needs.
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customer
survey.
The goal of this survey is to help us continually improve the Learning Center and our courses to better meet your needs.
If you received this survey, please take a moment to complete it. As a token of appreciation for completing the survey, you will be able to download a copy of the
CPA Practice Management Forum,
our magazine that provides a blend of news, commentary and features that focus on key topics of importance to CPA firm leaders.
New Learning Center Core Library Courses
CCH is committed to keeping you up-to-date and knowledgeable on the latest issues that impact your firm or corporation.
Many new or revised courses, covering a wide range of topics, have been released to the CCH Learning Center Core Library over the past two months.
See the new or updated titles released to the Learning Center Core
Library:
New
Specialty Library
Accounting and Audit Courses — Several new courses have been released exclusively to CCH’s Accounting and Audit Specialty Library.
This new Library covers a broad range of topics, including fraud, recently issued standards, and specialized areas, such as governmental auditing and not-for-profit organization audits.
The CCH Specialty Library: Accounting and Audit serves as a valuable research tool and helps practitioners meet their A&A CPE requirements. View the new courses released exclusively to this library:
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Business Combinations: GAAP Levels B, C and D (Second Edition)
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Compilation and Review: Financial Statements (Second Edition)
Health Care Options and the Tax Rules that Affect Them
provides an easy to understand overview of the federal income tax treatment of health care options. It looks at key provisions, developments and potential changes on the horizon that will impact individuals and businesses. Topics covered include: Deductibility of Health Care Premiums Deductibility of Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Costs Health Savings Accounts
(HSAs) Flexible Spending Arrangements
(FSAs) Employer-Paid Health Coverage Health Reimbursement Accounts
(HRAs) Medical Reimbursement Plans Accounting and auditing developments Automobile expenses and deductions Compilation and review Estate tax return preparation Gift tax return preparation Recent tax developments Streamlined Sales Tax Project Tax legislation Tax research What’s
New State Taxation
Library Courses in the library provide timely coverage, current information and the in-depth analysis you need to stay a step ahead of important state tax issues while still meeting you continuing professional education requirements.
The courses also provide planning tips and practice development ideas, practice tools to help users apply the knowledge gained, and links to sources of additional information within CCH®
Tax Research Network™ (TRN).
Participant's
Guide Search
for a Course
Health Care Options and the Tax Rules that Affect Them —
The CCH Learning Center strives to keep you informed on the latest hot tax and accounting topics.
Health Care Options and the Tax Rules that Affect Them is one of the newest courses covering a hot area in taxation.
As Financial Consultant Lew Wessel noted, this new course provides a “nice overview as well as excellent
detail — I learned a few key facts!” Get the details of this course
here:
We will release many new courses in the CCH Learning Center in the weeks and months ahead to give you even more choices and more value. Learn more about the new CCH Learning Center courses in development.
Among the new and updated courses that are in development now, look for courses in the following areas soon:
CCH has added a new library to its growing line of Specialty Libraries. The CCH Learning Center Specialty Libraries are practice-area focused and cover a broad range of levels in the key topics of accounting and auditing, sales and use taxation, and tax return preparation.
You can now search the CCH Learning Center for coverage of topic that interests you, and a new training guide is
also available.
The State Taxation Specialty Library provides guidance through significant laws, regulations, decisions and issues affecting state taxation. The Library includes more than 25 engaging web-based self-study courses worth more than 60 CPE credits. Written by top experts in the field, these courses provide insight on important or emerging state tax issues, and analyze their impact on compliance and planning.
A new Participant’s Guide is now available to all CCH Learning Center users. To access the guide go to the
left side of the Learning Center home page under the CCH Learning Center heading.
The Participant’s Guide is provided in a ready-to-print .pdf, and it guides new users through the enrollment, navigation and completion
processes. The guide also reviews the CPE options available through the Learning Center, defines menu tools and features, and explains how to resume a course.
Use the new Learning Center Search tool to find courses covering topics of interest to you.
To search for a topic, simply click on the "search for courses" tab on the upper right side of CCH Learning Center.
Enter a term, topic, or subject into the search and click on "search for a course."
All of the courses covering that topic will be displayed, along with a short description of each course.
Click on the title of a course for a more detailed description and for an opportunity to enroll in the course.
Audio Seminars
CCH’s wide range of interesting, educational CPE options now includes audio seminars. Each audio seminar allows an unlimited number of users at your firm to get up-to-speed on a hot topic using nothing more than a telephone connection. Plus, participants can earn up to 2 CPE Credits. Learn about upcoming audio seminars
here.
CCH’s audio seminars, presented by top experts, are designed to provide you with updated information on the hottest tax and accounting topics. Along with detailed handout materials, each site registering for an audio seminar receives topically-related bonus items such as books, journals, newsletters or self-study CPE courses.
Check out the latest Audio Seminar schedule for details on upcoming
seminars.
Let Us Know What You ThinkPlease let us know if this Focus on Learning issue has been helpful for you. We appreciate your business and we value your feedback very much, so please let us know how we can help make this communication vehicle and the CCH Learning Center even more valuable to you by emailing us at learningcenter@cch.com or calling us at 800-344-3734. You may contact us via postal mail at CCH, Attn: Marketing Communications, 2700 Lake Cook Rd., Riverwoods, IL 60015. Sincerely,
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