<plin321[at]aol.com> wrote:

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I spend most of my public practice time doing partnerships,
sub-s, and 1040's. I took the H&R course several years ago
for cpe and found it to be quite good, but time consuming,
and only focused on 1040 returns. I would recommend using
Micro Mash cpe courses for partnership returns.

Mike

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plin321[at]aol.com wrote:

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CCH has a book called Tax Course (a new one comes out every
year), which I think is one of the best if you don't mind
self study. It's not inexpensive, but it's very good. CCH
also has many other tax publications that can be of use in
showing you how to prepare returns.

Prentiss Hall has similar publications, which are probably
as good. Which you like better is up to your personal taste.

Stu

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plin321[at]aol.com wrote:

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I have taken the Block basic tax course in the past, I found
the printed materials excellent and very thorough. In
California and Oregon, paid preparers must be licensed (or
registered, whatever) by the state so the course also meets
the requirements in those states (CPA's and EA's meet the
requirements by default, at least in California.)

If you read the fine print on this years course brochures
from Block, it looks like, for the first time, the course is
not open to all. It says "This course is not intended for,
nor open to any persons who are either currently employed by
or seeking employment with any professional tax preparation
company or organization other than H&R Block." They want
you to come work for them, apparently.

-Mark Bole

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I am a CPA who has mainly audit experience. I've also been
out of the profession for several years, doing other things.
My tax experience has been very limited (mainly doing
corporate tax provisions for audit purposes). Individual tax
experience is limited to doing my own returns and I have no
experience with partnership returns.

I'd like to thoroughly update my tax knowledge, with the
view to becoming a tax advisor/preparer as a
part-time/semiretirement job in the future.

Would H&R Block be a good course to take in my situation, or
would it be too basic? Are there any good online, self study
courses that would make sense? I'll probably be using
Lacerte to prepare taxes - are there any courses that are
geared towards Lacerte users? The reason I'm considering
Block is the practical knowledge, but it's quite a time
commitment and would be hard to make all of the classes due
to my busy work schedule.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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