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• Prepare Partnership, S Corp, C Corp, Personal Property Tax, Trust, and Individual tax returns• Make adjusting journal entries and federal tax journal entries in ProSystems Engagement and Quickbooks software• Analyze potential client mergers and the cash walk-away after taxes of a gain on sale of real estate• Prepare discounted cash flow analysis on a potential real estate investment• Create reports for pension plan compliance & Form 5500s• Research and analyze the applicability of 45L credit and 179D deduction

• Assisted in the drafting of client estate planning documents and the incorporation of LLCs and nonprofits• Enhanced firm marketing plan by generating new strategies and co-wrote blog on year-end tax planning tips

• Prepared partnership tax returns in ProSeries software and filed extensions and employment taxes• Made adjusting journal entries in QuickBooks software and converted financials from Book to Tax in Excel

• Taught weekly session to undergraduate students to reinforce their professor’s most recent lecture• Graded homework and take-home tests and determined 20% of the student’s final course grade

• Participated in client audits, internal control walkthroughs, fraud investigation, and completed audit programs• Entered data in individuals’ tax returns and organized tax clients’ financials

• Administered organizational behavioral experiments to students in testing lab• Assigned values and coding to experimental research output to provide analyzable data

• Located market opportunities through analysis of sales by location, ethnicity, and price sensitivity of customer• Recommended future space allocation and product mix based on store traits