This complete guide to IRAs will keep administrators, financial planners, employers, and participants up-to-date on the latest IRA developments. It explains all the new rules and restrictions facing IRAs and gives you straightforward answers to all your IRA questions, including: How has the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 affected IRA planning? How do you make tax-advantaged rollovers with respect to ROTH IRAs and Education IRAs? How do I avoid IRA pitfalls that trigger unnecessary taxes? What are the new trustee-to-trustee transfer rules, and how can I avoid withholding on transfers? How can employers encourage IRA development? How do IRAs fit into retirement and estate planning? How will the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 impact IRA distributions? How can I best use IRAs to roll over pension distributions? How frequently can investments be changed? Covering the full range of IRA issues -- Including contributions, investments, distributions, taxation, reporting, disclosure, and rollovers -- This is the one reference you need to keep abreast of this rapidly changing field.

This book updates the classic text "Public School Fund Accounting Principles and Procedures" (Tidwell 1960). The book is designed to be used primarily as a textbook at the graduate level with students training to be school administrators, school business administrators, or principals. A list of topics covered include an overview of school accounting and school-business administration, basic accounting principles and techniques, the general ledger, journals, revenue and expenditure accounting, special entries, basic financial statements, changes in financial position, special revenue funds, capital projects funds, debt service funds, general fixed-asset account group, general long-term debt account group, enterprise funds, internal service funds, trust funds, agency funds, payroll accounting, internal cash control, student accounting, advanced financial statements, auditing, Association of School Business Officials' Certificate of Excellence, private-sector accounting practices, school-district financial management, and the future of financial and managerial accounting in the school setting. Appendices contain sample forms and a glossary. (LMI)

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