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Checkpoint (formerly RIA Checkpoint) is a commercial tax and accounting research service offered by CCH. False Which statement is CORRECT regarding commercial tax services? a) They provide free access to all primary source tax materials. b) They eliminate the need for reading primary tax law source materials. c) They act as an index for and explanation of primary tax law. d) All of these are correct. C The tax research platform "Checkpoint" is a product of which publisher? a) CCH b) Thomson Reuters c) BNA Tax & Accounting d) none of the these are correct b Which strategy would be the most useful to a tax researcher unfamiliar with a particular tax topic? a) Read the editorial explanation of the topic and the overview of the applicable law. b) Perform a Google™ or Bing™ search. c) Select a database to search. d) None of these are correct. a Checkpoint's flagship editorial content tax service is entitled the: a) Standard Federal Income Tax Reporter b) Federal Tax Coordinator c) Federal Tax Handbook d) United States Tax Reporter b There are four primary search methods in Checkpoint: (1) keyword, (2) contents, (3) index, and (4) citation. True Thomson Reuters Checkpoint offers two main types of keyword searches: Terms & Connectors and Intuitive Search. True The "Terms & Connectors" type of keyword search is useful when a researcher is unsure as to which keywords would be most effective. False A citator is a tool through which a tax researcher can learn the history of a legal source and evaluate the strength of its holdings. True It is imperative that a citator be examined to determine how later legal sources have considered the document of interest. True The Federal Tax Coordinator is a topical service. False The database which is organized by the numerical structure of Code is the: a) topical database b) IRS database c) Court cases database d) annotated database d In some tax services, quotation marks are placed around the keywords to: a)indicate that the words should be searched as an exact phrase b) indicate that the words should be searched separately c) reduce the number of documents retrieved d) maximize the number of documents retrieved a The only support recognized by the IRS and courts are primary sources and not the editorial explanations of a tax service. True If you performed an intuitive search that returned 1000 documents, what could you do to narrow your search? a) Reduce the number of databases searched. b) Search within results. c)Use terms and connectors to better define the relationship between keywords d) All of the these actions would help narrow the search results d A Checkpoint Contents search can be difficult to use. True The footnote links in Checkpoint editorial services are not important to tax researchers. False An Index search can be more effective than a keyword search because the researcher has the benefit of the tax expertise of the indexer True