Sepetmber 2007

Dear CCH Learning Center Subscriber,

Welcome to the September 2007 issue of Focus on Learning, the monthly newsletter for the CCH Learning Center that provides insights on how to use the Learning Center to your full advantage and updates on new courses and features available to you. In each issue we highlight a course (or series of courses) on a timely topic, and let you know about new courses released in the CCH Learning Center. We also inform you of new useful features, provide helpful tips on existing features, and help you use the CCH Learning Center to meet your professional development and CPE needs.

Visit CCH’s New Podcasting Center!
The CCH CPE Podcast Center gives you easy access to free Podcasts covering hot topics and recent developments in taxation. You can listen to the audio courses online, or download them to a portable device. The course audio is free; you only pay if you wish to earn CPE Credit.

CCH CPE Podcasts allow you to: 

• View and download course components such as outlines that provide a summary of the course and citations to new cases and rulings, charts, examples and other related information 

• Support your answers with citations to the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Tax Research Consultant™ and Federal Tax Guide. As an added bonus, Tax Research NetWork™ subscribers can link directly to citations and cases

• Free up your time for more billable hours because you have the convenience of earning CPE while you’re traveling, commuting or even working out

To earn CPE Credit with a CCH Podcast, enroll into the related course and complete your CPE exam online for immediate results. There is a nominal fee to enroll into the course and complete the Final Quizzer for CPE Credit. As with other CCH CPE products, immediate 24/7 grading is available. You may use your existing Learning Center ID to enroll into a Podcasting course. 

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, including:

• Charitable Giving Tax Strategies (Third Edition) 

• Consolidated Returns: Determining Whether to File 

• FASB No. 155: Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments and FASB No. 156: Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets 

• FIN 48: Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Tax: an Interpretation of Statement No. 109 

• Itemized Deductions: What Is and Is Not Deductible 

• Recent Tax Developments (July-August 2007) 

• SAS 109: Understanding the Entity and its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement 

• SAS 110, Performing Audit Procedures in Response to Assessed Risks and Evaluating the Audit Evidence Obtained 

• Tax Credits: Business (Third Edition) 

• Tax Credits: Personal (Third Edition) 

• Tax Research: Primary Sources of Federal Tax Law -- The Internal Revenue Code and IRS Interpretations (Second Edition) 

New Courses — Specialty Libraries
In addition to the titles listed above, several new courses have been released exclusively to various CCH Specialty Libraries. These new Libraries cover a broad range of courses in specialized topics including accounting and audit, international taxation, sales and use taxation, state taxation, and wealth management. New courses released exclusively to these libraries include: 

• U.S. International Taxation: Specialty Library 

  • Tax Research: Researching International Tax Law (Second Edition)

Upcoming Courses
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. Among the new and updated courses that are in development now, look for courses in the following areas soon:

• Accounting and auditing developments

• Alternative minimum tax

• Business deductions

• Business entities

• Consolidated returns

• Estate and gift tax return preparation

• Family Limited Partnerships

• Investment strategies

• Recent tax developments

• Tax research

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 3 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 Seminars schedule for details on upcoming seminars, including “Understanding the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax” on September 27th.