Dear CCH Learning Center Subscriber,

Welcome to the November 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.

What’s new

Check out for our redesigned Learning Center! Our new site provides easy access to all of CCH’s CPE options – online, print, audio CD and audio seminars. CCH also offers subscriptions to additional Learning Center libraries covering specialized topics through the new site. You can still use the site to easily access your current Learning Center subscription, now called the Learning Center Core library; simply log in and click on the Course Catalog tab.

Learning Center Specialty Libraries! Two new Learning Center libraries focusing on specialized topics are now available. Like the Learning Center Core library, both specialty libraries offer compelling and authoritative content, practical guidance and practice aids to assist in applying the knowledge gained.

The new Accounting and Audit 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 courses range from basic to advanced and include links to sources of additional information within CCH's Accounting Research Manager®.

The Sales and Use Taxation Library provides guidance through one of the most dynamic areas of tax law and practice. The courses offer practical, clearly explained introductions to core sales and use taxation issues to help you effectively deal with this often complex and confusing area of state taxation. Plus, the courses include links to sources of additional information within CCH® Tax Research Network™, and insightful supplementary articles that provide additional information on the course topic.

Easy Access to the CCH Testing Center. If you receive a text-based course with a CCH book purchase, or as part of a CCH subscription, you can use the Testing Center to submit your final exam for instant grading results. The Testing Center is now easily accessible through the CCH Learning Center.

Find out about an upcoming CCH Audio Seminar. The new CCH Learning Center gives your quick and easy access to the CCH Audio Seminar schedule. 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.

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.

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. Many new or revised courses have been released to the Learning Center over the past two months, and many more are to come.

Course Spotlight

1041 Preparation and Planning series: This year we are expanding the CCH Learning Center Tax Preparation catalog to incorporate a series of courses devoted to fiduciary income tax preparation. The 1041 Preparation and Planning series presents a fundamental review of the rules for federal income taxation of trust and estates and clear guidance on properly preparing the Form 1041.

Written by noted tax experts, commentators and educators, Sidney Kess and Barbara Weltman, the courses in this series are concise and practical. Kess and Weltman provide precise explanation on all the essentials of fiduciary tax return preparation. Legislative and regulatory changes affecting returns, recent IRS rulings and significant court decisions are all reflected and highlighted in place throughout the text in a logical and understandable manner.

The series flows logically, line-by-line through the return itself. The courses hit the high points, and use simple, straightforward and easy-to-understand language. Filled-in forms and schedules that illustrate how real-world tax scenarios flow through onto the forms themselves are included in the courses. The series includes:

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:

2005 tax legislation
AMT
Circular 230
Dividend repatriation
Individual tax updates
FAS 109
Fiduciary taxation
Income tax preparation
IRS tax enforcement
Manufacturing deduction
Recent tax developments

Let Us Know What You Think

Please let us know if this Focus on Learning issue has been helpful for you, what we could do to make it better, additional topics you'd like us to cover, etc.

We appreciate your business and we value your feedback very much. Let us know how we can help make this communication vehicle and the CCH Learning Center more valuable to you. You can always e-mail us at learningcenter@cch.com or call 800-248-3248 with your thoughts.

Sincerely,

Gwendolen Hefty
Managing Editor, CCH Learning Center
CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business

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