U.S. Master Accounting Guide (2008)

The book listed below will not have 2009 editions nor does the editorial staff plan to release further editions. 

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 2007 Edition including critical tax developments, accounting standards changes, financial developments, and much more affecting every chapter in the book.

With the Guide, practitioners can beam-in on important details that may be just a little beyond their memory. Once "on location," the professional has access to valuable lists, digests, illustrative tables and charts, calculations, formulas, ratios, examples, and descriptive explanations--all designed to help quickly answer a client question or provide an additional slant or solution to a complex issue.

Helpful information is provided on accounting principles (including the latest GAAP pronouncements), business entities, bankruptcy, business valuation, franchising, buying/selling a business, securities, financial analysis, Social Security, taxation (including recent legislative and regulatory developments), employment issues, human resources, investments, insurance, and much more.

The content is provided in concise form to provide an at-a-glance encyclopedia of helpful information for today's multifaceted and busy accounting professionals in a single, affordable reference. The U.S. Master Accounting Guide is the perfect companion to CCH's industry-leading U.S. Master Tax Guide and other Guides in the growing CCH Master Series.

Benefits and Features Features include:

• * Quick, easy-to-access updated facts that provide current and accurate answers to nagging client questions
• * Highlights of new changes affecting important accounting, financial and legal topics
• * Specific business decision analysis tools
• * Formulas and calculations illustrated with practical examples to show how to apply the principles in practice
• * Checklists that call to mind detailed considerations and ensure that important steps or issues do not go missed * Concise explanations of important legal and regulatory underpinnings
• * Key contact information for government offices and accounting organizations