The CCH Principles of Business Taxation course approaches the study of taxation from the perspective of the student who will become a business person faced with business decisions that are inevitably affected by tax considerations. This perspective leads to a very different coverage in this textbook -- coverage that is useful for accounting, finance and general business majors. The new edition focuses on the central concepts that build our tax framework and avoids small exceptions and details to ensure that the student can confidently master the critical underpinnings of federal taxation. It abandons minutia that not only affects a very small number of taxpayers, but also tends to change often. In this way, there are no wasted motions and students gain a stronger, more solid understanding of federal tax principles. Principles of Business Taxation is now available in an eBook format which you can download to your computer instantly.
Many items that pertain specifically to businesses (for example, inventory valuation issues) usually not discussed in a traditional undergraduate tax textbook are covered in this book. Although so many of the exclusions, deductions, and credits apply equally to individual and corporate taxpayers, this book focuses on the business perspective. An advantage to this approach is that most of the students who take only one course in taxation will learn how businesses are taxed and, in turn, will have a better appreciation for how taxes affect business decisions. Another advantage to this approach is that the topics dovetail into other business, finance and accounting course work.
While the focus is on concepts and how taxes affect business decisions, individual income taxation is not abandoned. After all, many core tax concepts apply to individuals as well as businesses, and the Principles of Business Taxation course is not shy in pointing out such application. The book also includes a special chapter on individuals (sole proprietorships) and one on pass-through entities that tie together the underlying threads concerned with these taxpayers throughout the text.
Principles of Business Taxation is authored by a panel of contributing editors led by Linda Johnson in her role as Coordinating Editor.
Benefits and Features:
2012 Principles of Business Taxation Instructor's Guide in looseleaf format includes the following:
- 1) Summary of each chapter to provide the adopter with a quick view of what's covered and to facilitate course preparation and development of lesson plans.
- 2) Answers to problems in each chapter in the book.
- 3) Testbank questions and answers that correspond to each chapter in the book.
CCH's 2012 Classroom Advantage CD & User Guide for Principles of Business Taxation is also provided to adopting instructors. This CD provides additional teaching help and the following great features:
- 1) An electronic file (PDF) of the entire Instructor's Guide, so teachers can access all the great information contained in the print Instructor's Guide at their office/home PC or on their laptop.
- 2) CCH's Computer Slide Presentations for each chapter that help enhance and facilitate class lectures and discussion.
- 3) CCH's Testbank questions for all chapters in the book. Files are available in both Word and Respondus. Respondus is a special application for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard, eCollege, WebCT, ANGEL and other course management systems.
Also available to adopters are the following helpful aids for both teachers and students:
- CCH® StudyMATE is an online learning center for college students. The StudyMATE Fundamental Topics Library was created to supplement this textbook by providing an easy online tutor to help students with difficult concepts and test them on their knowledge. CCH textbook adopters and their students have free access to the Fundamental Tax Topics Library for a full year! To view the courses available, visit www.cchstudymate.com. Enrollment instructions are provided with each textbook.
- CCH's Federal Tax Study Manual (2011) (#04659401) designed to enhance learning and improve comprehension for students of federal tax. Instructors receive a complimentary copy of this book that can also be adopted along with the text for students.