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Practitioners Publishing Company (PPC), part of the Thomson family of companies, provides a variety of accounting practitioner materials. While its website, ppc.thomson.com, is geared toward marketing the company's products and communicating with customers, many excellent free resources are of interest to professionals and students.
PPC's website is organized around its product lines and quick links to related companies. The homepage is designed with a leftside index for the main product groupings: accounting and auditing, tax compliance and planning, consulting, practice management, and CPE/training. The center presents a text box for each product group, with links to two or three highlighted items. The right side includes customer help functions and the results of a recent poll question. A horizontal menu bar at the top of the homepage provides links to related companies, such as Quickfinder and MicroMash, personalized webpages for PPC customers, and the site index. The main...