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Employee, CMA student, brought in the latest Byrd & Chen reference book. I tried to look up tuition information for commercial flight school training and found nothing. Then I located Legal Expenses in the index and was directed to page 199 and again found nothing.
Back to the CCH.
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BYRD & CHEN Just an observation not a critique
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IdaChen 
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Posted 07 May 2007 - 12:05 PM
Our Canadian Tax Principles is designed as a textbook for students who are learning tax. It is already over 1,000 pages with a separate almost 400 page Study Guide. And every year it is getting larger as more complexity is added to the ITA (eligible vs. non-eligible dividends for instance).
Instructors are struggling to teach all the material in the book in their courses. If you can believe it, some one semester tax courses cover personal tax and corporate tax through refundable taxes. That is a very heavy course load.
It is not easy to decide what should be included in the book and what has to be left out. Unfortunately, we were not helpful in the case of your employee on this issue.
As we say in the preface to the Professional version, this book is not designed for tax professionals. As it is part of the CICA's Virtual Professional Library (VPL) and the textbook paper version contains a CD-ROM with the VPL, one of our goals is to help train accounting students to do research in the tax area.
PREFACE (excerpt)
This book will be of significant benefit to accountants who include some tax work as part of their general practice. While the material is not presented in sufficient depth to be of assistance to individuals who specialize in tax, the easy to understand style of the text and exercises will provide convenient answers to many of the basic tax issues that are encountered. It can also be useful in providing a basis for explaining complex tax issues to clients with limited tax and accounting knowledge.
The text of Canadian Tax Principles is available in a fully searchable Folio version on CD-ROM or DVD as a part of the CICA's Virtual Professional Library.
Instructors are struggling to teach all the material in the book in their courses. If you can believe it, some one semester tax courses cover personal tax and corporate tax through refundable taxes. That is a very heavy course load.
It is not easy to decide what should be included in the book and what has to be left out. Unfortunately, we were not helpful in the case of your employee on this issue.
As we say in the preface to the Professional version, this book is not designed for tax professionals. As it is part of the CICA's Virtual Professional Library (VPL) and the textbook paper version contains a CD-ROM with the VPL, one of our goals is to help train accounting students to do research in the tax area.
PREFACE (excerpt)
This book will be of significant benefit to accountants who include some tax work as part of their general practice. While the material is not presented in sufficient depth to be of assistance to individuals who specialize in tax, the easy to understand style of the text and exercises will provide convenient answers to many of the basic tax issues that are encountered. It can also be useful in providing a basis for explaining complex tax issues to clients with limited tax and accounting knowledge.
The text of Canadian Tax Principles is available in a fully searchable Folio version on CD-ROM or DVD as a part of the CICA's Virtual Professional Library.
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RL Tax Joe
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Posted 07 May 2007 - 01:38 PM
I think you folks are doing a bang up job Ida. I used your complete series (or at least it was way back when) to study for the Ontario CA exams and UFE. Passed everything first time. Thought the tax books were very well done for their purpose and I scored in the first Decile for tax.
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