[kmwgrace]

Hello Ninjas! Long time no see! Sorry I dropped off the face of the Earth for a while there, I’ve been busy raising my kid, trying to get my travel agency off the ground, working various & sundry part-time jobs (including HR Block, editing a short-lived magazine, some bookkeeping, and even a bit of babysitting scattered here & there), and a host of other things that have kept me away from the CPA exam and thus, this message board.

I’m here today for some advice. I’m hoping the Ninjas can help me. I have been recruited by an old classmate to teach an online graduate level Estate and Gift Tax course. I’m supposed to research texts & pick one. I started by going to the Pearson, McGraw-Hill, & Prentice Hall websites – no luck. I then googled syllabi for other E&GT courses and they are mostly using the same text – but it costs $600!!! OUCH!!! I can’t subject my students to that much expense for one text. The ideal text will also include Corporate Tax, as my students will be taking that concurrently with my class. However that’s not a set-in-stone requirement. Any suggestions welcome… the more supplemental materials, the better!

Thanks Y’all!

~ Kate 🙂

~ Kate... MTX!
CPA exam on hold while I homeschool my 6 year old!

[Anonymous]

Have you looked into an older version of the textbook that you've found used elsewhere? Might reduce the cost and you could create supplementary sheets to update information where needed (for example, a “cheat sheet” with all the current figures for limitations etc).

[kmwgrace]

Thanks for the reply! I thought about that but I feel that a current text is better with all the new rules, etc. my friend said that the biggest goal of the course is to prepare my students for the E> portion of the CPA exam, so I really want them to have the most up to date info available. I actually found one that looks like it will work on Cengage. It covers E>, partnerships, and corporations so it will be useful for potentially 3 courses. It's almost $200 but since they'll get to use it for multiple classes, I'm ok with that price, especially with all of the online bells & whistles that come with it. 🙂

~ Kate... MTX!
CPA exam on hold while I homeschool my 6 year old!

[Sir Study Alot]

Why not have your students work out of the internal Revenue Code? Assign them reading material from the code and they can look it up online at Cornell University for free. You can then prepare summary handouts either before the semester begins or prepare them as the semester goes by. All the graduate text course books will be $300 and up. Estate concepts on the CPA exam can be taught in an hour so I am not sure what guidance that was.

Passed all 4 exams in 2014!

[impska]

My Estate and Gift Tax professor made us buy the Internal Revenue Code (There's a book with just the Gift/Estate/Trust sections) and then assigned Tax Court case readings. Then he made us read the IRC to him in class. Then he'd ask us our interpretations of what we'd just read and tell us why we were wrong.

Ok… so maybe not the best format for an online course. 😉

But the Tax Court case assignments were useful and memorable.

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