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Old Habits Die Hard

I’ve recently been talking about how I wanted to have my online progress match my offline progress but I’ve already slipped back into using the study method I used for the Comprehensive Course.  I feel this is likely because I prefer to…

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Tax Preparers: Are Your Backing Up Your Data?

  As a tax preparer, your files and client information are both very important.  Lots of things could happen in the world of technology – hard drives could crash, you could download a virus, your system could be breached, etc.  There needs…

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Pens and Pencils

Don’t use a pen when doing your tax homework. DON’T USE A PEN.  There is just never a good reason to risk the heartache involved in using a pen.  Get home from work late only to realize that your mechanical pencil is…

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Organizing My Homework

After completing the Comprehensive Tax Course, it became readily apparent that I needed a method for organizing my completed assignments. When I sat down to do some tax homework the other day, I noticed a growing stack of forms and schedules on…

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There’s Always More to Learn

As I work through the Advanced tax course it has been interesting to see how much additional information there is beneath the surface.  While the Comprehensive tax course spent a lot of time getting me comfortable with basic tax return preparation (by…

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BREAKING: Court Rules in favor of IRS

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the IRS does in fact have the authority to provide tax credits to individuals purchasing health insurance on the health insurance exchange. Get the full story on Accounting Today here.   Related Articles: The Affordable Care…

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