Displaying: The CTP® Experience

Still Going

I have completed all of the questions and learning activities for chapters 4 & 5 and will be catching up on some publication reading before taking the final. Even though the course covers all of the relevant information for the tests in…

Full story 

Building Your Preparer Toolkit

After finishing the main reading materials for Chapter 4, I was pleasantly surprised to find a whole section at the end of the chapter which provided forms and advice on tax preparation.  Things such as common tax preparer mistakes, important interview questions,…

Full story 

Preparing for the Real World

As I completed the tests for Chapter 2 and 3, I felt a little uncomfortable with my excessive need to keep flipping back through the chapters to check my answers on the tax return preparation questions. By nature, I really like to…

Full story 

Re-evaluating My Goals

A lot has changed about how I will be studying in our short three weeks together and figured it might be a good idea to summarize some of those changes.  I hope that this will give you some insight into what hasn’t…

Full story 

Completing Chapter 1 and Settling into a Routine

After registering for the Comprehensive Course, I promptly received the hard copies of the course materials. The course is primarily delivered online which is extremely convenient, but supplemental printed copies are definitely important since I like to take notes on and/or highlight…

Full story 

Getting Started, Setting Goals

I love learning. Given the opportunity, I will read every line of a textbook and attempt to internalize every concept. While this was perfect for most of my college courses, it doesn’t quite work for a tax course and I will have…

Full story