Essential SEC Accounting Rules For Business From CCH Offers Guidance, Documents, Forms And More

(RIVERWOODS, ILL., January 3, 2000) – CCH INCORPORATED (CCH), a leading provider of business and finance law information, software and services is now offering interactive securities forms, FASB and GASB documents and the 2000 CCH U.S. Master GAAP Guide as parts of the comprehensive and authoritative Essential SEC Accounting Rules for Business electronic library.

Essential SEC Accounting Rules for Business is a one-stop resource offering guidance, full-text official documents and compliance tools for accountants, controllers, lawyers, consultants, libraries and government agencies with accounting functions. This mix-or-match collection of indispensable research materials helps practitioners tackle the SEC accounting requirements for registering, reporting on, buying and selling securities.

Elements of the collection include Accountant’s SEC Practice Manual and SEC Accounting Rules, available separately or in combination on CD-ROM or the Internet. Both publications include Interactive SEC Forms and Instructions. Available separately on CD-ROM only are FASB Materials, GASB Materials and the 2000 CCH U.S. Master GAAP Guide.

Practitioners can customize their subscriptions to meet their needs, ordering either the Practice Manual or Accounting Rules, or both, and adding the FASB, GASB or GAAP Guide publications as needed to round out coverage.

Accountant’s SEC Practice Manual

Produced in conjunction with BDO Seidman, LLP, the Accountant’s SEC Practice Manual offers practical guidance on the nitty-gritty details of disclosure requirements, financial data and audit procedures.

The Practice Manual summarizes securities statutes and regulations, such as Regulation S-X and S-K as they relate to accounting practices, and provides helpful summaries of accounting series releases and interpretations from SEC Staff Accounting Bulletins.

The Practice Manual also contains invaluable point-by-point checklists for both financial disclosures and for management discussion and analysis.

The Accountant’s SEC Practice Manual is updated every other month.

SEC Accounting Rules

SEC Accounting Rules contains full-text documents relating to SEC guidance and enforcement actions regarding accounting. Included in the publication are Staff Accounting Bulletins from the SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance and Office of the Chief Accountant, correspondence on the independence of accountants from the Office of the Chief Accountant and industry guides, which contain the latest information on the policies and practices of the SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance on the preparation and filing of registration statements.

Annotations of decisions and releases provide concise summaries so users can quickly determine whether a matter applies to their situations and if more in-depth research is needed.

SEC Accounting Rules is updated monthly.

Interactive SEC Forms and Instructions

Included with either the Accountant’s SEC Practice Manual or SEC Accounting Rules on CD or the Internet is an interactive set of SEC forms, form instructions and continuation sheets. Subscribers can complete forms, print them and store completed forms on their PCs.

The CD-ROM version of the forms has a "common data form" feature that allows users to store repetitively used company or project information, which can then be applied to any open form.

FASB, GASB Materials, GAAP Guide

As an add-on to either or both the Accountant’s SEC Practice Manual and SEC Accounting Rules, CCH is making available related materials from the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Government Accounting Standards Board.

FASB

The FASB materials include interpretations, technical bulletins, concept statements, accounting research bulletins 43-51, opinions and statements of the accounting principles board and AICPA interpretations and terminology bulletins. Also on the CD-ROM, users will find full text of issues considered by FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force and implementation guides in the form of questions and answers from FASB special reports and other implementation guidance. An index pulls together references to all the varied FASB materials by topic.

GASB

Now also available are comparable GASB materials. They include GASB statements, interpretations, technical bulletins and concept statements. The CD-ROM contains National Council on Governmental Accounting statements and interpretations currently in force and the AICPA 197 Industry Audit Guide and related statements of position. And, questions and answers from GASB implementation guidance and a comprehensive topical index are provided.
U.S. Master GAAP Guide

Also included is the 2000 edition of the popular reference, the CCH U.S. Master GAAP Guide. Offering the best GAAP guidance available, the 2000 Guide provides superior technical analysis, and new and practical insights. The 2000 CCH U.S. Master GAAP Guide explains and analyzes Accounting Research Bulletins, Accounting Principle Board Opinions, Financial Accounting Standards Board Statements, FASB Interpretations and FASB Technical Bulletins. Summary coverage of FASB Concept Statements, FASB Emerging Issues Task Force Summary Issues, AICPA Statements of Position and selected SEC Staff Accounting Bulletins are included, as well.

Availability and Pricing

For more information or to order CCH’s Essential SEC Accounting Rules for Business, call 1-800-449-6435. The Accountant’s SEC Practice Manual is $702 per year on CD-ROM, $751 on the Internet and $669 in print. SEC Accounting Rules is $431 per year on CD-ROM, $661 on the Internet and $411 in print. When purchased together, the Accountant’s SEC Practice Manual and SEC Accounting Rules are $1,133 on CD-ROM, $1,212 on the Internet. All electronic versions of these two publications include interactive SEC forms and form instructions. As one-year subscriptions, FASB materials are available on CD-ROM for $500; GASB materials on CD-ROM are $350; and the 2000 CCH U.S. Master GAAP Guide on CD-ROM is $99.

About CCH INCORPORATED

CCH INCORPORATED, founded in 1913, has served four generations of business professionals and their clients. The company produces approximately 700 print and electronic products for securities, tax, legal, banking, securities, human resources, health care and small business markets. CCH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer U.S. The CCH web site can be accessed at www.cch.com.

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