Cengage: Online Tax Products
Monarch Media has been working with the Cengage Accounting Team for several years on various projects, including the Warren Accounting Products and the Whittenburg Tax product to keep them in their market-leading positions.
Leveraging our extensive knowledge of Cengage’s CNOW platform and our relationship with dedicated subject matter experts, we’ve been able to use various coding languages—including XHTML and CSS—to customize the look and feel of preexisting problem types to represent the physical product. The technological guidelines of these products set the standard for all other online accounting courses. In 2015, we are adapting this primarily Cengage product into Aplia’s platform to reach even more users in an all-new interactive format.
When Cengage’s tax team needed a way for students to get a feel for filling out their tax returns, they came to Monarch for a solution. Using custom CSS and HTML, we created a series of forms that provide a real-world look at the tax process. All input boxes and fields even report back to the CNOW gradebook.
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Monarch Media was contracted by the World Bank to create two online master’s programs focused on food security in the Eurasian region for the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS), located within Moscow State University (MSU).