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Tax Staff Essentials, Level 1 - New Staff
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CPE Self-study

Tax Staff Essentials, Level 1 - New Staff

Level 1 is designed to help beginning staff members develop a strong set of core skills. It focuses on individual and S corporation tax compliance plus professional business communications and more!

$579 - $825
Do you have an AICPA membership? Log in to apply your member discount.

Format

Online

NASBA Field of Study

Taxes

Level

Basic

CPE Credits

46.5

Availability

1 year

Product Number

TSELEVEL122SSO

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Help your junior staff establish a strong set of core skills

This series covers key areas to ensure the members of your young tax force are well prepared to begin their careers and support your firm. They’ll learn about the following:

  • Individual, partnership, and S corporation tax compliance
  • Effective online tax research techniques
  • Clear and precise working paper documentation
  • Effective professional business communications

Your future tax professionals will also receive a broad range of practical tax instruction, including key issues surrounding:

  • Individual taxation
  • New cost and repair regulations
  • S corporation distributions
  • Items affecting shareholder basis
  • Passive activity loss rules, and more

Courses Included:

Tax Staff Essentials is a comprehensive, integrated curriculum that provides tax training for four different experience levels and is available in four different formats: Online, On-site, Tax Schools, and Webcasts.

Who Will Benefit

  • Junior accounting and tax professionals

Key Topics

  • New rules for certain credits, deductions, and the qualified business income (QBI) deduction.
  • Filing requirements and personal exemptions.
  • Gross income inclusions, exclusions, and adjustments.
  • Sole proprietorships, hobby loss rules, and passive activities.
  • Home offices, rental properties, and vacation homes.
  • Pass-through entity basis calculations.
  • Pass-through entity distributions.
  • Capital improvements and repair.
  • Depreciation methods and IRS tables.
  • Intangible asset amortization.
  • Online tax research methodology and authoritative tax hierarchy.
  • The power of professional language in business writing.
  • Tax return support documentation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify and report business income and expenses of a sole proprietorship or a single member LLC on Schedule C to Form 1040
  • Distinguish and report rental activities on Schedule E to Form 1040
  • Identify the specific "passive activity" rules
  • Indicate if a change of filing status will improve the taxpayers' filing position based on itemized deductions
  • Indicate when an S corporation may be advantageous for a business, how to make a proper election, and the income/loss that passes through to the shareholder
  • Recognize active and passive income and determine material participation as it relates to an individual S corporation shareholder
  • Recognize the impact of converting a C corporation into an S corporation
  • Distinguish between deductible repairs and capitalized improvements under new tax regulations
  • Recognize how to calculate the initial tax basis and adjusted tax basis of business property
  • Identify the tax basis of self-constructed assets
Credit Info
CPE Credits
Online
46.5
NASBA Field of Study
Taxes
Level
Basic
Prerequisites
None
Access
Online
This is a digital product. With full paid access the content will be available to you for 1 year after purchase date.
For more information, please refer to CPE requirements and NASBA sponsorship information
Pricing
Do you have an AICPA membership? Log in to apply your member discount.
Nonmembers
Online
$825.00
AICPA Members
Online
$660.00
CIMA Members
Online
$660.00
Tax Section Members
Online
$579.00

Group ordering for your team

2 to 5 registrants

Save time with our group order form. We’ll send a consolidated invoice to keep your learning expenses organized.

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6+ registrants

We can help with group discounts. Call us at 1-800-634-6780 (option 1) or email us at salessupport@aicpa.org

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Tax Staff Essentials, Level 1 - New Staff
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