INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS has led the market for more than twenty years with concise, practical, and current coverage of individual income tax preparation. Whittenburg and Altus-Buller's text/workbook format presents material in easy-to-digest sections with self-checks, online quizzes and activities, multiple examples, and review problems. Income Tax Fundamentals is the perfect text for a hands-on approach to tax in many class settings, including four-year colleges, community colleges, or career schools. This text is revised annually to reflect the current tax law. Tax Preparation software is included. The purpose of the Whittenburg text is to teach the most important and practical areas of the tax law to students, using a building block approach, with feedback at the end of each section. By the end of the text, the student should be able to prepare a fairly difficult return containing many of the elements seen frequently by taxpayers and tax preparers.
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GERALD E. WHITTENBURG is a professor of accounting and taxation at San Diego State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Professor Whittenburg professional designations included Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and an Enrolled Agent (EA). Professor Whittenburg's research interests have focused on corporate and individual taxation, as well as the tax research process. His articles on these and other topics have appeared in such journals as the Accounting Review, Advances in Taxation, Journal of Taxation, Taxation for Accountants, Taxes, Management Accounting, Practical Tax Strategies, Journal of Taxation of Investments, Valuation Strategies, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Journal of Taxation of Financial Institutions, The Tax Adviser, Tax Notes, Real Estate Accounting and Taxation, and Journal of Accounting Education. Professor Whittenburg has authored several tax textbooks. His current books are entitled INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS (24th Edition), CALIFORNIA INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS (5th Edition), and WEST'S FEDERAL TAX RESEARCH (7th Edition). His books are currently being used in more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States.
Professor Whittenburg received a California State University (CSU) Trustee's Outstanding Faculty Award in 1991. This award was competitive across the entire 20-campus CSU system. Professor Whittenburg was a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide (Australia) in the 1999 and 2005. In 2003, Professor Whittenburg received a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant at the Academy of Tax Services of Ukraine. While in Ukraine, he lectured students and conferred with the faculty and staff on income taxation in the United States. See: www.cies.org/specialists/ss_gwhittenburg.htm.
Martha Altus-Buller is a CPA with her own tax practice in San Diego, California. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon for two years, holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego and a MS in Accounting from San Diego State University. She won a Sells award for scoring among the top exams the country on the May 1983 CPA exam. Her practical experience includes work as a tax manager for Arthur Young, now Ernst & Young, one of the (then) Big 8 accounting firms, and more than two decades of full time practice in tax accounting.
Professor Whittenburg received a California State University (CSU) Trustee's Outstanding Faculty Award in 1991. This award was competitive across the entire 20-campus CSU system. Professor Whittenburg was a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide (Australia) in the 1999 and 2005. In 2003, Professor Whittenburg received a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant at the Academy of Tax Services of Ukraine. While in Ukraine, he lectured students and conferred with the faculty and staff on income taxation in the United States. See: www.cies.org/specialists/ss_gwhittenburg.htm.
Martha Altus-Buller is a CPA with her own tax practice in San Diego, California. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon for two years, holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego and a MS in Accounting from San Diego State University. She won a Sells award for scoring among the top exams the country on the May 1983 CPA exam. Her practical experience includes work as a tax manager for Arthur Young, now Ernst & Young, one of the (then) Big 8 accounting firms, and more than two decades of full time practice in tax accounting.
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This review is from: Income Tax Fundamentals (Paperback)
I have prepared taxes professionally for over 20 years and have taught tax preparation for 5. This book is the worst I have come across in that time and should be avoided at all costs!
The content and flow is nonsensical, there is literally no explanation about ANY forms or schedules, and the sample problems are illogical. In Chapter 1 the book introduces all the various taxable entities including Partnerships and Corporations, which it then tries to cover in a chapter each later in the text. Who in their right mind thinks they can cover corporate tax in a chapter? And what about that is "fundamental?" Chapter 3 has a single problem that requires the student to fill out a 1040, a Schedule C for a sole proprietorship, a Schedule D for a non-business bad debt, and a Schedule E for a vacation rental. This is very advanced material for the third chapter of a "fundamental" text. I could go on and on about how bad this book is, but just be warned: RUN for your life from this book and any teacher/professor who selects it!
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Great Text!,
This review is from: Income Tax Fundamentals (with TaxCut Tax Prep Software) (Paperback)
Have used this text for a number of years and enjoyed it. It introduces the student to the 1040 and all the basic schedules. The book contains copies of the 1040 and schedules plus worksheets. A practical approach to individual income taxes.
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This is an excellent text. I have used it for an online class where I rarely had to call the teacher for clarification. I also used it during the tax preparation season while assisting taxpayers and it was a great reference. I also find it very handy and very informative. The tips given in the tax break boxes and the columns regarding "Would You Believe?" are very interesting and are good learning points. The examples coupled with the self-study problems really cement the practical application aspect of the text. I have even written some poems about taxes while reading the text!
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