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PPC's Estate Planning Book - The Practical Guide You Can Trust Learn More

PPC’s 5500 Deskbook provides line-by-line guidance for completing the Form 5500 series returns (Forms 5500, 5500-SF, 5500-EZ, 8955-SSA) and the related schedules. It provides an efficient approach to determining filing requirements, obtaining the information needed to complete the reporting requirements, and correctly completing the return. Guidance focuses on the tax return and includes real-life examples and illustrations of filled-in forms, as well as practice aids, to save you time and help you understand the basic concepts involved.

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PPC’s 706/709 Deskbook breaks down the complexities of federal estate, gift, and GST tax issues and provides clear guidance for preparing or reviewing Forms 706, 709, and related GST tax forms. This Deskbook leads you through the compliance process using a forms-based format, explaining the impact of recent important legislation, cases, and rulings. Streamline your client service by relying on our comprehensive, user-friendly guidance.  

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PPC’s 990 Deskbook provides detailed, easy-to-understand, and affordable tax return guidance, complete with real life examples and illustrations of completed forms, so you or your staff can quickly and easily resolve and implement the key issues encountered when preparing tax returns for nonprofit organizations. It also provides workflow guidance, tools, and other practice aids to save time and help ensure returns are consistently and accurately prepared. It covers Forms 990, 990-T, 990-PF, and 1023.

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With PPC's book on trusts and estates, accountants can find answers to all the trusts and estates accounting and reporting questions they may have. Learn More

Properly accounting for income taxes in GAAP financial statements requires a thorough understanding of complex accounting and tax rules and regulations. PPC's Guide to Accounting for Income Taxes provides practical, how-to guidance on all aspects of accounting for income taxes under FASB ASC 740, Income Taxes. The Guide includes numerous illustrations and example calculations, as well as helpful practice aids, that will enable you to effectively and efficiently identify temporary differences, calculate current and deferred income taxes, and report and disclose income taxes in GAAP financial statements.

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Local government audits require specialized guidance and tools to address their unique audit and accounting requirements. PPC’s Guide to Audits of Local Governments provides the audit programs, checklists, confirmations, and auditor’s reports you need to correctly perform these audits in an effective and efficient manner, from regular GAAS audits to Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book) Audits to Single Audits. This Guide provides the most comprehensive set of audit materials available on the market, representing the gold standard for audits of local governments.

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PPC's Guide to Real Estate provides comprehensive real estate accounting and tax guidance in a single, easy-to-use source. The Guide provides the information and tools you need to address the accounting and tax aspects of acquiring, developing, building, leasing, and selling real estate.

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PPC’s Guide to Forecasts and Projections simplifies the complex rules that apply to engagements involving prospective financial information and provides you with comprehensive engagement, procedure, and reporting checklists to ensure you can efficiently and effectively perform your forecast or projection engagements. You’ll get expert guidance on all facets of engagements on prospective financial information, including accepting the client, selecting the level of service, gathering the facts, developing assumptions, performing the procedures, preparing the financial presentations, and issuing the report. 

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PPC's Guide to GAAP is the accounting professionals' one-stop guide to the Financial Accounting Standard Board's General Accepted Accounting Principles. Learn More

PPC’s Guide to Auditor’s Reports provides detailed guidance on the AICPA audit reporting standards and more than 275 audit report illustrations and drafting forms including reports modified for GAAP departures, scope limitations, going concern uncertainties, and numerous other situations. Choose and draft the proper audit report with confidence and get the guidance you need to explain it to your client. 

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PPC’s Guide to GAAS is the ultimate GAAS reference guide. It provides complete coverage of professional standards for audits, compilations, reviews, attestations, consulting, valuation services, quality control, and ethics. The Guide is more than a simple recitation of the standards; written in simple, easy-to-follow language, it includes practical considerations and critical insights that help you understand what the standards require and what they don't.

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PPC's Guide to Compensation and Benefits will help you understand the different types of compensation and benefits that companies are currently offering and their tax implications. It provides clear explanation, analysis, and advice that can be used to quickly evaluate fringe benefit alternatives, ensure compliance with IRS rules, and avoid costly mistakes. This Guide can help employers design compensation plans that motivate key executives including Section 409A nonqualified deferred compensation and stock option plans. It also discusses travel and entertainment expense reimbursement rules, including the proper treatment of company-provided automobiles, computers, and cell phones; and covers the rules for establishing, operating, amending, and terminating all types of fringe benefit and cafeteria plans.

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PPC’s Guide to Quality Control provides the overarching policies and procedures that the quality control checklists, programs, and practice aids in PPC’s Audit and Accounting Guides support. This Guide provides a comprehensive approach for designing and implementing a quality control system that complies with all of the quality control standards and at the same time is practical and cost-effective for firms of all sizes.

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PPC’s Guide to Single Audits is your one source for all the rules, regulations, and guidelines for single audits of both governments and nonprofits. Performing single audits requires compliance with an array of complex regulatory and professional requirements. This Guide helps you comply with these requirements accurately and efficiently, thereby increasing your audit profits.

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PPC's Homeowners' Association Tax Library is your complete one-stop HOA tax guide book, full of useful reference materials, rulings, and reports for CIRAs. Learn More

Audits of HUD multifamily project owners require specialized guidance and tools to address their unique accounting and compliance audit requirements. PPC's Guide to HUD Audits provides the audit programs, checklists, confirmations, and auditor's reports you need to correctly perform these audits in an effective and efficient manner. Guidance and practice aids are provided for audits of for profit project owners in accordance with the HUD audit guide and for nonprofit project owners in accordance with OMB Circular A-133.

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PPC's Specialized Industry Tax Guide provides an economical way to obtain the detailed information you need on the unique and varied tax planning and compliance issues facing many of the industries and professions found in your client base, including the oil and gas industry.

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The challenge of interpreting and implementing the authoritative literature comprising nonprofit GAAP is greater today than at any time in recent history. PPC's Guide to Nonprofit GAAP helps you meet that challenge. The format of our Guide helps you to locate answers quickly and easily. It covers all of the authoritative literature that applies to nonprofit organizations and provides references to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. You'll also get a specialized disclosure checklist tailored just for nonprofit organizations.

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PPC's real estate tax book offers practical tax guidance for real estate dealers and investors, covering acquisition, development, depreciation, and more. Learn More

PPC's Tax Planning for S Corporations explains the tax consequences of electing and maintaining S status, operating the S corporation, and terminating the S election. It covers other tax issues, too, such as reorganizing the corporation, maintaining a QSub subsidiary, redeeming S stock, or liquidating the S corporation.

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Business valuations require a significant amount of careful consideration and judgment. Our expert authors, Mr. Jay Fishman, Dr. Shannon Pratt, and Mr. James Hitchner, give you practical guidance to take you through each step of a valuation engagement and keep you current on valuation issues in PPC's Guide to Business Valuations.  Our checklists and illustrations reflect the guidance from SSVS No. 1 as well as the standards of the other business valuation organizations. You can use the same material the IRS uses to train its agents.

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PPC's Guide to Write-Up Services is the most comprehensive resource available on how to provide profitable bookkeeping and payroll services. The practical "how to" guidance, illustrations, practice aids, and illustrative IRS forms enable CPAs, staff accountants, paraprofessionals, and accountants in industry to efficiently provide write-up services. The Guide explains how to select software, accept clients, process data, and perform payroll and write-up services efficiently and while meeting professional standards.

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Properly applied audit risk assessment procedures provide the foundation for an effective and efficient audit engagement. PPC's Guide to Audit Risk Assessment instructs you in how to identify, consider, and respond to the risks of material misstatement in the financial statements, allowing you to focus your audit time in the areas with the most significant risks, while limiting the time you spend on other areas. The Guide explains the risk assessment process and provides a complete package of implementation and other practical tools.

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PPC's Guide to Homeowners' Associations and Other Common Interest Realty Associations is the most comprehensive Guide ever written about homeowners' associations, condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and time-share developments. The Guide covers the unique accounting, auditing, and reporting issues for common interest realty associations (CIRAs) and gives you everything you need to perform audit, compilation, and review engagements both effectively and profitably.

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