CCH Learning Center and
CPE Assistant
®
™
Enhance your professional development and your staff’s,
with a full range of learning, training and management tools.
One Solution for All Your
Learning Needs
Make sure you get ahead of the curve with expert-written,
up-to-date course content and the tools you need to keep up with
legislative changes, regulatory issues and industry developments.
CCH® Learning Center can help further your staff’s professional
development and improve their tax, accounting and audit, and
financial and estate planning skills. Whether you are looking to
advance your staff’s professional development, or simply earn CPE
credits, CCH Learning Center is the solution for you.
Earn Valuable CPE Credits
With CCH Learning Center, you will have access to over 300
technical and substantive online, self-study training courses to help
increase proficiency in core topics and emerging issues — all while
earning valuable Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.
Learners can take advantage of the following:
Why Choose CCH Learning
More Than 300 Self-Study Courses Available
The CCH Learning Center makes earning valuable CPE credits easy.
More than 120 new and revised courses are published annually on
the latest tax, financial and estate planning, and accounting and
audit issues, including modules on specialized practice topics. With
select courses from the Core Library or any of the Specialty Libraries,
there will always be a course to fulfill your learning needs.
Core Library
The Core Library consists of self-study CPE courses on the most
relevant topics and emerging issues with a focus on basic, overview
and update level courses.
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Accounting and Audit
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Tax Return Preparation
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Business Taxation
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Tax Updates
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Individuals’ Taxation
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Wealth Management
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Tax Research
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Easy-to-use search screen — A clean, streamlined search screen
to make it easy to find the content you need.
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Flexible course navigation — Dropdown menus make it easy to
find exactly what you are looking for — in less time.
Address the Growing Need of Talent Retention
and Development
Hiring, retaining and developing the skills of top candidates allows
your firm or organization to flourish, stay profitable and edge out
the competition. With talent shortage becoming a growing concern
in the finance and accounting world, investing in the skills of your
best people is crucial since these are the staff members more likely
to leave — they have the greatest outside opportunities.
Training is key to your talent development program and CCH is
committed to delivering the most robust learning solutions on the
market helping firms and organizations meet the unique learning
challenges they face on a daily basis. With CCH Learning Center, you
will be able to:
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Get the right courses to the right person — Cater to individuals
or groups of employees by creating customized learning paths
based on their specific learning needs.
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Keep better track of your staff’s progress — You have the
ability to group learners by specific characteristics — such as
location or staff level — making it easy to see which groups are
completing their CPE (and which aren’t).
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Upload firm or company-specific training — Keep your
agendas, course attendees and supporting material in one
place for easy access for in-house training.
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Ensure your staff completes required CPE courses on time —
Our CPE Assistant makes it easy to track CPE requirements
and regulations across all 50 regulatory bodies mandating
CPE as well as CLE, CFP and more. You can retain records for
all your staff members in one convenient place to help ensure
their certifications are maintained. (See page 4 for details.)
Specialty Libraries
These specialty libraries focus on key areas of tax and accounting,
and offer a broad range of CPE course levels. Select from eight
separate libraries:
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Accounting and Audit — courses cover a broad range of topics,
such as fraud, recently issued standards and specialized areas.
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IRS Registered Tax Return Preparer CPE Library — Designed
to meet the new CPE requirements for RTRPs, this library
provides a bank of 20 CPE hours to use for courses covering
the most relevant issues impacting individual income tax
return preparation.
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Sales and Use Taxation — important sales and use taxation
issues are analyzed to help you deal with this often-complex area
of state taxation.
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Tax Return Preparation — timely, line-by-line guidance through
the preparation of a variety of federal income tax returns.
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State Taxation Library — reviews important or emerging state
tax issues and analyzes their impact on compliance and planning.
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Wealth Management Library — details the most important
wealth management issues, including strategic planning and the
preparing of appropriate tax forms.
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U.S. International Taxation Library — presents basic concepts
and issues surrounding U.S. taxation of international transactions.
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Corporate Library — offers more than 130 web-based
self-study CPE courses on a wide range of corporate topics,
including accounting, financial reporting, taxation, and fraud
and ethics.
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Authoritative Authors
Professional analysts, editors and contributing authors provide
authoritative analysis and interpretation to help tax professionals
understand today’s complex rules and regulations. With the CCH
Learning Center, you’ll have access to some of the leading experts,
including, Sidney Kess, Barbara Weltman, John Healy, Michael
Schadewald and Steve Fustolo.
Take a Sample Course for FREE!
Experience the power and ease of the CCH Learning
Center by taking an online course. It’s free — and
you’ll earn CPE credits. To find out more, visit us at
CCHGroup.com/LearningCenter
Hundreds of Practice Tools and Resources
CCH Learning Center courses provides hundreds of practice
tools and resources to help your staff apply their newly
gained knowledge. Each CCH Learning Center course includes
supplemental resources, including checklists, client letters, flow
charts, filled-in forms and related expert analysis. In addition,
courses offer practical insights and pointers, real-world examples,
helpful learning checkpoints, and study aids.
Complete Integration with CCH Research Products
CCH Learning Center self-study courses are integrated with
IntelliConnect®, our easy-to-use internet research platform,
and Accounting Research Manager®, the largest and most
comprehensive accounting and financial reporting online
database. Use the links provided within course materials to access
authoritative literature, explanations and interpretations to help
further research, planning and insight.
Flexibility and Freedom to Choose What You Need
CCH gives you the freedom to choose the best learning solution for
you and your firm by offering a variety of subscription options that
cater to your training and CPE needs.
Individual Course Options
Over 300 self-study, CPE courses may be purchased individually,
ideal for staff that may only need to take one or two courses.
Online Subscriptions (Single Users)
Online subscriptions allow unlimited access to a complete library
of CCH Learning Center web-based, CPE courses. This online
subscription allows you to enroll in any course in your library at
no additional charge. Several libraries are available, including
specialty libraries.
Curriculum Solutions You Can Customize
Bulk Hour Purchasing (Unlimited Number of Users)
CCH Learning Center helps firms and employees address some
of the key challenges they face, including training and developing
new and existing staff, staying current on new developments or
emerging issues, and increasing productivity — giving them the
flexibility and freedom to choose what they need.
Companies can purchase a block of CPE hours for use during a
12-month contract period, and will have access to the Learning
Center reporting tool to track usage within their organization ,
including our CPE Assistant™. Bulk-hour customers have access to all
courses in the Learning Center Core and Specialty Libraries, and can
add an unlimited number of users throughout the contract period
by using the CCH Learning Center reporting tool.
Competency-Based Curriculum
CCH Learning Center has 14 suggested curriculum paths designed
to help firms support their training and development objectives,
and develop specific learning paths for their staff. Users are
directed to the courses that are the most relevant to their
specific learning needs.
Curriculum Path to Fit Your Needs
Suggested curriculum paths can help address training gaps within
an organization when you integrate CCH Learning Center courses
into existing professional development plans. You also have the
ability to create your own custom curriculum paths from scratch
based on job level, practice area or anything else specific to
your organization.
Freedom to Choose When You Want to Learn
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Online individual web-based, self-study CPE courses —
courses are available 24 hours a day/seven days a week online,
with immediate exam results and certification.
Three levels of Bulk Hours are available:
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Basic — allows Administrators to track course usage, assign
courses to learners, and view a standard set of reports.
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Plus — includes everything that comes with Basic Bulk Hours,
plus the ability to create custom curriculums and maintain
CPE compliance.
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Professional — includes everything that comes with Basic and
Plus Bulk Hours, plus the ability to upload firm-specific content
and manage/schedule training sessions.
For a full list of features, visit CCHGroup.com/LearningCenter.
CCH is
with Best in Process™ Solutions
Delivering Faster Answers
and Better Results.
CPE Assistant
™
NEW!
The One Tool You Need to Ensure You Are Certified on Time
CPE Assistant™ reduces the time and cost of keeping CPE compliance records in your firm. With this complete online CPE management tool,
ensure your employees maintain their certification by monitoring the progress of individual CPAs against their CPE requirements. It also
provides complete and updated rule summaries for all 50 CPA regulatory bodies mandating CPE, plus CLE, CFP and more.
Individual CPE Coverage
Easier CPE Administration
CPE Assistant allows you to:
Simplify your CPE administrator’s job with one easy-to-use CPE
management tool.
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Show hours completed against total hours needed in reporting
period for each jurisdiction tracked
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Calculate limits on training format and topics and minimum
requirements
When used in conjuction with the Learning Center reporting tool,
this online CPE management tool:
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Provides a single point to administer all training functions
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Automatically track certifications and credits earned through
CCH Learning Center and upload other CPE sources
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Sends employees regular email reminders on their CPE status
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Adds and drops employees from the system as needed
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Receive email reminders on CPE status
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Allows administrators to report CPE completions for
firm-sponsored training events for multiple users
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Stores CPE certificates for quick retrieval and printing
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Produces reports by jurisdiction, credits remaining and CPE
deadline
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Automatically populates CCH Learning Center data into CPE
Assistant — no data entry needed, saving you billable time
Easily review a list of all your courses and
where you can go to add additional CPE.
Conveniently track the
details of your credits earned
with your CPE Status Report.
Take control of your staff’s
professional development today.
Contact your CCH Account Representative at
888-CCH-REPS (888-224-7377)
or visit CCHGroup.com/LearningCenter
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