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yes, practice makes perfect
Mentor
Really depends on your background and whether or not they’ve given you any guidelines on how to review a return and how long it should take you. It also depends on deadlines. If you have one return to review in a non peak time, you can take more time with it than having 20 returns to review with a filing deadline in two weeks.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with taking a while to do a thorough review, but I also came from a background where we would take 12 weeks or so to review a set of state returns. In public accounting, you may take those 12 weeks and cut it down to 12 hours (or less) to review the exact same returns. So it really depends on what expectations are set and what deadlines you have to meet
Coach
Agree with cr1. Depends on state deadlines and also deadlines promised to clients. Sometimes i would fly through reviewing 30 state corporate or partnership returns in like 8 hrs or less
Thanks for all your replies, I want to detail review to make a good impression so makes sense that it’s taking a long time
Coach
Yeah. Detail review would be more time consuming. At manager level i dont detail review unless there is a specific concern
You’ll get better and quicker over time. Most important is that you’re working with your associate on whatever you’re reviewing that needs to be fixed. It’ll help them learn and you’ll get stronger by teaching
When it takes you hours to review a return, do you feel like you are going in a logical fashion/reviewing in the best way possible?
It is completely appropriate for you to reach out to a more experienced senior that seems to be highly respected or a manager and say “hey can you walk me through how you review? I just feel like I’m taking a long time!” They should know that you’re trying to learn and be helpful