U S Master Accounting Guide 2008

CCH's U.S. Master Accounting Guide distills key accounting, business, legal and financial information into a convenient, handy and affordable package for the accountant's fingertip reference. Hundreds of updates are reflected across the broad coverage areas in the 2008 Edition including critical tax developments, accounting standards changes, financial developments, and much more affecting every chapter in the book.

This classic reference provides helpful and practical guidance on todays federal tax law and reflects all pertinent federal taxation changes that affect 2007 returns. Contains timely and precise explanations of federal income tax for individuals, partnerships, corporations, and trusts, as well as new rules established by key court decisions and the IRS.

The Hardbound Edition of CCH's U.S. Master Tax Guide is identical in content to the standard softbound MTG, but is produced in an attractive hardcover format with elegant gold stamping for year-round, permanent reference. Like the softbound edition, the Hardbound Edition provides helpful and practical guidance on today's federal tax law.

CCH's U.S. Master Depreciation Guide offers tax and accounting professionals who work with businesses a one-stop resource for guidance in understanding and applying the complex depreciation rules to their fixed assets. This area is especially challenging, because bits and pieces of applicable information must be gathered from a maze of Revenue Procedures, IRS Tables and IRS Regulations. These sources are frequently old and include some materials which may be non-applicable. CCH's U.S. Master Depreciation Guide pulls the pieces together, so practitioners can make sense of all the corresponding information and put the information into practice.

The field of taxation of employee and executive compensation is complex, dynamic and ever-changing. CCH's U.S. Master Compensation Tax Guide unravels the complexity and explains in clear and concise language this critical area, providing practical and comprehensive guidance. The Guide covers the complicated compensation tax topic in a comprehensive yet practical, straightforward fashion that readers value and appreciate. The U.S. Master Compensation Tax Guide fills a void left by other works on executive and employee compensation, which primarily cover qualified plans and deferred compensation, by covering all of the common forms of compensation including salary, bonuses, fringe benefits (e.g., health and accident plans and cafeteria plans), qualified deferred compensation (e.g., pensions and profit-sharing plans), and nonqualified deferred compensation (e.g., rabbi trusts and restricted stock plans).

CCH's U.S. Master GAAP Guide offers solutions to many complex accounting and disclosure problems by providing accountants with superior technical analysis, new insights, and practical explanations of accounting principles in a single affordable volume. The Guide explains and analyzes Accounting Research Bulletins, Accounting Principle Board Opinions, Financial Accounting Standards Board Statements, FASB Interpretations, and FASB Technical Bulletins. Summary coverage of FASB Concept Statements, FASB Emerging Issues Task Force Abstracts, AICPA Statements of Position, and selected SEC Staff Accounting Bulletins are also included. The U.S. Master GAAP Guide groups pronouncements into Topics that, in turn, are arranged to follow major balance sheet headings. This organization allows the reader to find all current pronouncements on a given subject in one section of the book. The book uses a helpful three-step approach for each Topic to give readers easy access to practical insights and depth of understanding. First, the U.S. Master GAAP Guide features flow charts that illustrate the decision process and accounting procedures. Then, general discussion of the major provisions provides a context for understanding; and finally, detailed examples show the specific computations and accounting requirements.

In a single affordable volume, U.S. Master GAAP Guide offers solutions to many complex accounting and disclosure problems by providing accountants with superior technical analysis, new insights, and practical explanations of accounting principles.