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Books / reference materials

Need timely information and great advice? Check out our selection of popular books and publications from CCH, the MACPA and other renowned publishers.

Accounting

CPA's Guide to Effective Engagement Letters (eighth edition)
Provides the information needed to compose effective engagement letters. Designed as a practical, hands-on tool that can sit on the auditor's desk for easy access. With CD-ROM
International Accounting: A User Perspective
As business and capital markets continue to grow more global, the need for cross-border financial information has correspondingly increased. International accounting has been brought to the forefront.
International Accounting/Financial Reporting Standards Guide
Understanding reporting standards issued by the IASB is essential for those who prepare and/or interpret financial statements and are required to comply with the increasingly complex set of international accounting and financial reporting standards.
IFRS: Practical Implementation Guide and Workbook
A one-stop resource for understanding and applying current international financial reporting standards.
IFRS 2009: Interpretation and Application of International Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards of 2009: CD
A resource to understand, use and implement current International Financial Reporting Standards.
Accounting for World Class Operations
New: The need for a clearer, simpler, more strategic performance measurement system in lean companies is long past due.

Accounting, governmental

2010 U.S. Master GAAP Guide
Superior technical analysis, new insights and practical explanations of accounting principles in a single, affordable volume.
GAAP Policies and Procedures
Get the answers you need to prepare financila statements and keep up to date on the latest FASB requirements.
PLI's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Your single-volume resource for understanding this monumental legislation.
Winning the Cost War: Applying Battlefield Management Doctrine to the Management of Government
Defines and illustrates new ideas for everything from managerial cost accounting to analysis and accountability.

Business management / organization

New! 100 Ways to Profit in a Volatile Economy
Battle-tested business strategies and new initiatives from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Start, Run and Grow a Successful Small Business
Packed with useful, cost-cutting tips, step-by-step checklists, case studies, a model business plan, business documents, and so much more to help you develop and grow your small business.
Creating Value Through People: Discussion with Talent Leaders
Based on interviews with innovators with compelling views on managing and rewarding talent, keeping teams engaged and workers focused, creating tools of retention, and transforming underperforming teams.
Mind Over Matter
This book presents hidden assets not reflected in a company's financial reports, but fully responsible for creating wealth. Unlock the enormous financial and competitive power hidden in the intellectual capital of corporations.
Executive Guide to Boosting Cash Flow and Shareholder Value
Learn about the Profit Pool Approach. Find ways to quickly maximize shareholder value.
Measure What Matters to Customers
Learn why the most important activities that actually matter in your business are those that impact your customers.
Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value
This book presents the theory of value and details how any business can use various pricing strategies to create, communicate and capture the value of their products and services.
Client at the Core
Examine the marketing and managing of today's professional services firm.
Built to Change
This book identifies practices and designs that organizations can adopt so they are able to change.
Designing the Customer Centric Organization
A look at how to put in place an infrastructure that is organized around the demands of the customer.
Talent Management Systems
An important work in the now critical discipline of human capital management.
The Vest Pocket CFO
The perfect speedy reference for today's overburdened financial managers.

Communications

Dare to Prepare
New: The secret ingredient for getting into the winner's circle is simply the discipline of methodical preparation.
 

Leadership development

Leadership Tips: 52 Weeks to Business and Personal Success
This second edition interactive journal provides messages to inspire business and personal success.
Creating Value Through People: Discussion with Talent Leaders
Practical guidance on how to empower people to do their best. Filled with stories by and fascinating interviews with human capital innovators.
The Moral Compass: Leadership for a Free World
This book presents a model of morality as a guide to values-based leadership.
Seeing David in the Stone
Find and seize great opportunities using 12 actions mastered by 70 highly auccessful leaders.
Leadership: Helping Others to Succeed
This book features some of today's most inspiring speakers, leaders and authors, who share their invaluable insight into sparking the imagination and achievement of others.
The Discipline of Teams
An essential guide for any small group that must deliver team performance.
Leading Corporate Turnaround
Explore seven key leadership and management skills required for successful turnaround.

Production

Accounting for World-Class Operations
New: The need for a clearer, simpler, more strategic performance measurement system in lean companies is long past due.

Specialized knowledge

Laptops For Dummies, 4th Edition
Get a move on! Learn to roam free with this guide to choosing and using a laptop.
PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Bible and companion CD
Learn to create interactive, data-connected PDF forms. You'll learn how to get started, create office forms, handle databases, use JavaScript, master LiveCycle Designer and interactive XML, and much more.
Fixing the 401(k): What Fiduciaries Must Know (And Do) To Help Employees Retire Successfully
Controversial and often surprising answers from an experienced fiduciary who has been in the trenches of the retirement plan industry, as both a participant advocate and a proponent for change.
Excel 2007 Macros Made Easy
Produce your first macro in one minute, work smarter and save time, create and share interactive macros.
QuickBooks 2010 on Demand
Need answers quick? This is a highly visual, task-based, step-by-step reference book.
Essentials of XBRL: Financial Reporting in the 21st Century
This paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments and technologies in XBRL.
Model Policies and Procedures for Not-for-Profit Organizations
Learn procedures that ensure financial accountability, eliminate misunderstandings, and protect your organization's assets and viability. A must-have resource for every non-profit!
Not-for-Profit Budgeting and Financial Management
This easy-to-use book includes dozens of relevant forms and documents.
Not-for-Profit Accounting, Tax and Reporting Requirements
An important resource for every not-for-profit executive who deals with financial issues.

Taxes

Fixing the 401(k): What Fiduciaries Must Know (And Do) To Help Employees Retire Successfully
Controversial and often surprising answers from an experienced fiduciary who has been in the trenches of the retirement plan industry, as both a participant advocate and a proponent for change.
2010 U.S. Master Tax Guide
Order now! Available December 2009
The No. 1 tax handbook for tax pros, it contains timely and precise explanations of federal income taxes for individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates and trusts.
2010 U.S. Master Tax Guide Book and CD Bundle
Order now! Available December 2009
This special savings bundle includes a copy of the industry-leading paperback U.S. Master Tax Guide and the U.S. Master Tax Guide on CD.
2010 Guidebook to Maryland Taxes
Order now! Available December 2009
The perfect resource for concise and reliable information for practitioners working with state taxation in Maryland.
1040 Express Answers (2009 tax year)
Order now! Available December 2009
Designed to help you and your staff prepare tax returns easily and accurately.
2010 Financial and Estate Planning Guide
The premier guidebook for professionals who structure, tailor and administer financial and estate plans.
2009 U.S. Master Estate and Gift Tax Guide
Practical guidance for tax advisors and estate representatives involved in federal estate and gift tax planning, return preparations and tax payment.
Retirement Planning Guide and Companion CD
Guidance and practice tools on investment strategies, taxes, employee benefits, insurance, Social Security benefits, business succession planning, health care expenses and other retirement planning issues. Includes a free companion CD.

 

book discounts

  • MACPA member discounts: Our publications above include an MACPA member discount of 20-30 percent.
  • CCH reference guides: You may order accounting and tax books directly from CCH and still receive your MACPA member discount. Order directly from CCH.