Dear CCH Learning Center Subscriber,

Welcome to the April 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 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.

New Learning Center Courses

CCH is committed to keeping you up-to-date and knowledgeable on the latest issues that impact your firm or corporation. Several new or revised courses have been released to the Learning Center over the past two months. See the new or updated titles released to the Learning Center here. 

• Alternative Minimum Tax: Possible New Tax Regime

• Attestation Engagements: Engagement Planning and Administration

• Attestation Engagements: Examination Engagements

• Attestation Engagements: Review Engagements

• California Tax: Conformity to Federal S Corporation Rules

• California Tax: Crackdown on Abusive Tax Shelters

• California Tax: Dividends Received Deduction

• California Tax: Innocent Spouse Relief and Other Issues Affecting Individuals 

• California Tax: Navigating the New Water’s Edge Election Rules

• California Tax: New Rules for Tax Preparers

• California Tax: Tax Amnesty

• Capital Gains and Losses: Taxation Fundamentals (Second Edition)

• Education Tax Incentives: Opportunities and Strategies

• Sales and Use Tax: Understanding and Measuring Sales Tax

• Sales and Use Tax: Understanding and Measuring Use Tax

• Tax Strategies for Sideline Businesses 

Course Spotlight

California Tax Library. Each year, a handful of California tax issues require special attention by tax practitioners. Plus, understanding and effectively handling the frequent changes made to California tax laws can be a challenge. Our new California Taxation library of courses has been added to the Learning Center to help anyone working with California income taxation issues. The courses are designed to keep tax practitioners current on the latest developments in California taxation, and informed on the opportunities and pitfalls presented by the changes. Learn about these courses here. 

CCH’s new California tax courses identify the events of the past year that have developed into hot issues. The topics covered are particularly relevant to tax practice in 2004 and 2005. They have been selected because of their impact on return preparation during the 2004 tax season, and because of the important role they play in developing effective tax strategies for 2005. Courses released to Learning Center’s new California Taxation library include:

• California Tax: Conformity to Federal S Corporation Rules

• California Tax: Crackdown on Abusive Tax Shelters

• California Tax: Dividends Received Deduction

• California Tax: Innocent Spouse Relief and Other Issues Affecting Individuals

• California Tax: Navigating the New Water’s Edge Election Rules

• California Tax: Net Operating Loss and Net Operating Carryovers 

• California Tax: New Rules for Tax Preparers

• California Tax: Tax Amnesty

California’s Fraud CPE Requirement

Several Learning Center courses can be used to meet the fraud continuing education requirement for California CPAs who perform audit, review and compilation work. The courses focus on preventing fraud as well as detecting fraudulent actions in all types of organizations.  Learn more about these courses here.

• Cybercrime: Loss Valuations

• Cybercrime Management: Legal Issues

• Employee Fraud: The Misappropriation of Assets

• Fraud Detection: Understanding and Applying SAS 99

• Fraudulent Financial Reporting

• Indirect Methods of Reconstructing Income

• Money Laundering and Transnational Flows

If you are interested in a detailed review of the forensic accounting area, we refer you to CCH's Forensic and Investigative Accounting book. Written by three top accounting and forensic experts, this comprehensive resource covers all the important underpinnings, as well as the substance of forensic accounting. It covers both litigation support and investigative accounting, examining the practical aspects of these two areas, as well as many of the newer technological areas. 

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

• Corporate Taxation

• Partnership Taxation

• Revenue Recognition

• S Corporation Taxation

• Sales and Use Taxation

• Small Business Taxation

 

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