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Surgent's Form 1040 Return Review Boot Camp for New and Experienced Reviewers

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Member Price: $279.00
Non-Member Price: $399.00

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Date/Time:
Jan 15, 2025, 10:00am–6:00pm
Developer:
SURGENT MCCOY SELF-STUDY CPE, LLC
CPE Credits:
Taxes: 8.00
Fields of Study:
Taxes
Level:
Intermediate
Most review techniques developed by professionals are self-taught and fine-tuned via experience. Yet how does one start? The purpose of this course is to give both new and seasoned reviewers additional and advanced procedures via a multitude of checklists to thoroughly review various tax returns. Its emphasis is not planning; rather, it is to develop a strategy to properly review a return effectively and thoroughly. The course includes dozens of practice tips for new reviewers and is updated for impacts of newly enacted legislation.

Objective

  • Expand the process involved in reviewing applicable tax returns
  • Identify the most common areas that result in errors
  • Document a review, including consideration of risk management

Highlights

  • Review an error-prone "staff-prepared" Form 1040 from client-provided information. Where do you start? Get to know your client and ask the questions
  • Several new reporting issues for the reviewer to consider, including the main credit provisions as enacted under the American Rescue Plan
  • What are common errors preparers make and what are the areas generating malpractice claims?
  • The importance of engagement letters, questionnaires, and §7216 permission statement
  • Initial administrative groundwork
  • Identifying organizing issues in the tax return to be reviewed
  • Avoiding “willful blindness.” Handling ethical and moral dilemmas
  • Efficient review of certain advanced issues for income, adjustments, deductions, and credits
  • Effective procedures for delinquent clients, filing past-due tax returns
  • First-time client issues requiring extra scrutiny
  • Multiple checklists of efficient procedures to identify potential issues on a 1040 return
  • Listing of schedules for staff to prepare to make a review easier, including basis issues for 1040 clients
  • Reconciling time pressure with thoroughness and quality control
  • Professionals acting professionally

Designed For

Senior-level staff new to the review process or experienced staff members looking to update and/or expand their review procedures

Prerequisite

Experience in preparing Form 1040, reviewing diagnostics, and preparing workpapers

Advanced Preparation

None
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