Tax Operations

The earlier courses in this program gave you the foundation — the tools, the compliance workflows, the communication habits, and the analytical skills that entry-level tax analysts use every day. This course rounds out that foundation with the four specialized task areas where junior analysts add direct, hands-on value in corporate tax departments. Tax Operations is the sixth course in the Tax Analyst with AI Skills Professional Certificate. Across four short courses, you will develop the operational depth that makes you a genuinely useful member of a corporate tax team: understanding the structure of a basic ASC 740 income tax provision and populating a deferred tax rollforward schedule from trial balance inputs, distinguishing GAAP depreciation from federal tax depreciation under MACRS and applying Section 179 and bonus depreciation rules to fixed asset schedules, navigating the ONESOURCE electronic filing workflow and applying a pre-submission validation checklist to catch errors before a return is authorized for submission, and identifying eligible deductions and credits from taxpayer facts and auditing documentation packages to verify that every claimed item is properly substantiated before it enters a return. Each of these task areas reflects a direct handoff point between what an entry-level analyst prepares and what a senior reviewer approves. You will leave this course knowing how to prepare your side of that handoff correctly every time.