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Federal Taxation Comprehensive Topics is a popular teacher-created combination first- and second-level tax course that offers comprehensive one-volume coverage of all the most important tax concepts and principles for a solid grounding in federal taxation. It offers clear and concise explanation of fundamental tax concepts in the framework of today's tax practice. Covering both planning and compliance, the book strikes an effective balance between AICPA model curriculum demands and the favored approaches of the majority of today's top tax teachers.
Comprehensive Topics introduces students to the complex and absorbing study of federal taxation, covering a broad range of subjects beginning with basic concepts and individual taxation. Once the fundamentals are covered, tax accounting and the taxation of partnerships and corporations become the focus. The final section of the book presents estate and gift taxation coverage, along with income taxation of trusts and estates. Deferred compensation and education savings plans are also addressed.
Written by top tax teachers from across the country, Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics presents materials in straightforward language to improve student comprehension. Emphasis is given to the most important topics that have the greatest real-world impact.
For Adopting Teachers:
Instructors adopting Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics also receive a downloadable Instructor's Guide that includes the following helpful features:
Course outlines and AICPA Model Tax Curriculum outlines that show how the text can be used by teachers in various types of courses.
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.
Answers to both the Keystone Problems and End-of-Chapter Problems in each chapter in the book.
Testbank questions and answers that correspond to each chapter in the book.
Respondus-ready and Microsoft® Word files of the Testbank questions created by the textbook authors for all chapters in the book. These files allow instructors to customize their own tests.
Computer Slide Presentations for each chapter that help enhance and facilitate class lectures and discussion.
Wolters Kluwer offers a complete teaching package to support adopting instructors. When adopted in quantities of 10 or more, upon request, adopting teachers will receive:
A one-year subscription via AnswerConnect to Standard Federal Tax Reporter. Instructors can use their free Internet-based tax research subscription for course preparation, classroom presentations, or in the accounting lab/library. The AnswerConnect Library keeps teachers completely abreast of recent legislation, cases, and other judicial developments. And, as an AnswerConnect subscriber, teachers receive Tax Tracker News, Wolters Kluwer's daily customizable tax headline news service.
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Dr. Ephraim P. Smith, PhD, MS assumed the role of executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer for the CSU system in July 2010. From 1998 through 2010, Smith served as the vice president for academic affairs for California State University, Fullerton where he was responsible for managing more than 3,000 faculty and 300 staff members, as well as eight colleges, contracts and grants, institutional research, outreach, admissions, and international partnerships.
From 1990 to 1998, Smith was dean of CSUF's School of Business and Economics where he administered a complete array of graduate and undergraduate programs with a student enrollment of more than 6,500. While serving in this role, he was responsible for establishing a number of business centers and partnerships, as well as an accelerated MBA program.
Prior to joining Cal State Fullerton, Smith was dean of the James J. Nance College of Business Administration at Cleveland State University from 1975 to 1990. He was responsible for the development of graduate programs, including a doctoral program, as well as administering a full spectrum of undergraduate programs.
Smith was also a faculty member and chair of the Department of Accounting at the University of Rhode Island, as well as dean of the School of Business at Shippensburg State College.
Smith earned a B.S. in accounting from Providence College, an M.S. in accounting from the University of Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois.
Dr. Philip J. Harmelink, PhD, CPA is the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting at the University of New Orleans. He has also served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association, the American Taxation Association, the Federation of Schools of Accountancy and the Accounting Programs Leadership Group. Author or coauthor of more than 90 articles that have appeared in Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Taxes, The Tax Advisor, Taxation for Accountants, The CPA Journal, and other journals.
James R. Hasselback became the Mary Ball Washington Eminent Scholar at the University of West Florida in 2006, retiring from Florida State University after 27 years. He has previously taught at Eastern Michigan University, the University of Florida, and Texas A & M University.
A member of the American Accounting Association and the American Taxation Association, he has published over 150 papers in professional and academic journals, including The Accounting Review, The Tax Advisor, Financial Management, Journal of Real Estate Taxation, and the American Business Law Journal. He is co-author on a two-volume introductory taxation series published by Commerce Clearing House, serving as one of two technical editors. He is a co-author on the Master Accounting Guide and teams up with Irvin Gleim to produce a three-volume Enrolled Agent Review Course.
Dr. Hasselback regularly presents continuing education seminars for Certified Public Accountants, Enrolled Agents, and Accountants.
