Certified Tax Professional Program

Become one of America's most qualified tax preparers. Become a licensed Certified Tax Professional and place CTP behind your name.

Learn and apply best practice tax preparation from Consortia Accounting Business Advisors.

Consortia provides white label tax preparation services for tax preparation businesses.

Consortia is a registered Postsecondary Proprietary School providing post-secondary education for educational, vocational, or professional objectives.

Benefits

The Certified Tax Professional Program prepares you for the following opportunities:

1. Tax preparation career with Consortia Accounting Business Advisors,
2. Tax preparation position with a tax preparation business, or
3. Start a tax preparation business.

What Do Employers and Clients Want?

Employers and clients want tax preparers with the following (listed in order of importance):

1. Tax preparation knowledge, accreditation, experience, and ethics,
2. Personality conducive to their company culture, and
3. Appearance conducive to their company culture.

‍Objective

1. Perform tax preparation accurately and productively.
2. Prepare timely, relevant, and reliable tax information.

‍Steps

1. Education
2. Certification
3. Training
4. Experience
5. License
6. Support

‍Education Objective

Develop individual and business tax preparation knowledge and understanding.

Courses

1. Individual Tax Fundamentals or course equivalent
2. Business Tax Fundamentals or course equivalent

You may opt out of a course. To opt out of a course, you must have completed and passed an equivalent higher education course.

To opt out of a course, email your course transcript to info@certifiedpublicbookkeeper.org.

Each course you opt out of reduces the CTP Program monthly payments by one month. If you opt out of the two courses, you reduce the payments by two months.

‍Certification Objective

Communicate and assure employers or clients of your individual and business tax preparation knowledge and understanding.

Certifications

1. Individual Tax Certification‍
2. Business Tax Certification‍

Training Objective

Learn best practice individual and business tax preparation processes, procedures, and steps.

Training

1. Individual Tax Preparation with Intuit ProConnect
2. Partnership Tax Preparation with Intuit ProConnect
3. S-Corporation Tax Preparation with Intuit ProConnect

Experience Objective

Apply best practice individual and business tax preparation with Intuit ProConnect processes, procedures, and steps.

Experience

You perform tax preparation under the direction and supervision of a licensed Certified Tax Professional (CTP) or CPA.

Individual and Business Tax Preparation Experience (three months)

Certified Tax Professional (CTP) License Objective

Place CTP behind your name and communicate your tax preparation knowledge, skill, experience, and ethics to employers or clients.

CTP License

Become a licensed Certified Tax Professional or CTP.

This program completes the tax preparation requirement of the CTP license education, certification (examination), and experience requirements.

Support

You are assigned support personnel to assist you with any course, certification, training, experience, or licensing questions.