Become a Certified Tax Professional

Certified Tax Professional (CTP) 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 a leading national accounting company.

Consortia Small Business Accountants provide bookkeeping, payroll, accounting, and tax services for small businesses.

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

Benefits

Completion of the Certified Tax Professional Program provides the following opportunities:

1. Tax preparation career with Consortia Small Business Accountants or
2. Tax preparation position with a tax preparation or accounting business.

Objective

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

Steps

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

Courses

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

Education Objective

Develop individual and business tax preparation knowledge and understanding.

Certifications

1. Individual Tax Certification‍
2. Business Tax Certification

Certification Objective

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

Training

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

Training Objective

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

Experience

Individual and Business Tax Preparation Experience (three months)

Experience Objective

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

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.

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.