BSLL 2016 - Chartered Tax Professional

With the innovative online Chartered Tax Professional certificate program, students can start working and earning money while completing coursework. The CTP® certificate program is comprised of 6 courses. After successfully completing the first two courses in the CTP® certificate program, (most students finish in just 10 weeks or less) they will be qualified to prepare individual tax returns for almost all U.S. taxpayers. While they apply what they've learned and earn money as a tax preparer, students continue their studies in advanced individual tax preparation, which will enable them to serve clients with more complex tax situations and increase earning potential.

The next step is to learn to prepare returns for small business corporations and partnerships and more complex sole proprietorships. This opens up a new, more lucrative market while continuing to learn to help small businesses with more complex tax situations.

A high school diploma or equivalent is a prerequisite; accounting & math skill is not required, just the aptitude to work with numbers and people and to read and interpret the tax laws.

Requires a standard Personal Computer with Internet access, a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, at least 256K RAM and Acrobat Reader (free download).

Each of the six courses is accompanied by a student text (350-500 pages). The entire text is provided online; however, hard copies of student texts are also provided at the start of each course for convenience and future reference. Students are also provided with hard copies of tax forms to complete tax return problems.

Noncredit courses do not produce academic credit nor appear on a Colorado State University academic transcript.

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