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I remember my very first accounting class in college. I thought I was understanding, but then I was getting everything wrong. Ended up dropping the class and was going to completely change my major. Long story short, classes and actual work are different things, but if you knew enough to get through them, you might be ok.
Like to you have to understand how taxes work to practice tax? Practicing tax would be difficult if you don’t understand tax.
I mean.. I passed the exams so I understand some stuff, I think lol.
From my perspective, the main thing is understanding when a potential issue can exist. Then you can just look up the answer.
For example, if im working for a company with sales and employees in 30 states. Im not going to memorize the nexus rules for every state. Im going to look at each one, one by one, and then apply the rules.
I feel you—tax courses were brutal. Practicing tax is definitely different! There’s way more software involved, and you get into real-world problem-solving instead of just memorizing rules. That said, the concepts still matter. I think it depends on what part of the courses you struggled with vs. which parts you liked. if you hate it all, might be worth exploring other options
If you still passed your CPA and you're committed to improving your skills, I think you'll be fine. If you have an interest in it and know yourself to be a motivated self-teacher/learner then I think you'll be fine. Just expect that the learning curve might be slightly higher for you than someone else. But you got this !
You can definitely get by as long as you are given a chance. Especially with individual taxation. Just being responsive and organized will get you in the good graces of a mentor. Once you have someone that likes you and can lean on for questions you can get ahead of the game. Communication, organization (soft skills) and who you know are 100% more important than having tax knowledge at the start. That can always come later with on the job experience.
I absolutely loved my tax classes... loathed entirely all of my audit courses. So dang tedious it drove me crazy. Have you had your audit classes yet?
Sorry, I'd completely mis-understood. You must be going over cpe's then? Which ones are you taking? I've not had my full cup of cuppa life beans yet. I don't think I've had any difficult tax cpe's just going over new laws, annual ethics stuff nothing major. Then I usually hit whatever I think i'm weak in for the remainer. Who's your vendor?