Book excerpt: Prepare for success in working with today's federal taxation using the balanced, conceptual approach and unmatched practice opportunities in Murphy/Higgins/Skalberg's CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION 2022. You examine the latest tax laws and most recent code changes in segments that are ideal for C.P.A. Exam review. This edition also reinforces tax concepts using the Internal Revenue Code to prepare you for C.P.A. Exam tax simulations. To ensure understanding, this edition presents taxation as a small number of unifying concepts that you learn and then apply to tax rules and everyday economics. Frequent examples demonstrate how concepts apply to business activities. This edition provides more practice exercises than any other book of its kind to make certain you can use what you've learned. You also have access to professional taxation tools, Intuit ProConnect software and RIA Checkpoint (Student Edition) from Thomson Reuters, for further practice.