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On-Hand Training

The part of the course that gets you hired.

Every student is given access to real cases, worked in the real software. Not worked examples, and not screenshots of a program you will never open, but actual client files, prepared in the packages Canadian and US practices run on.

It is the difference between a graduate who has studied tax and one who can be handed a file on their first morning.

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Why it matters

Real Client Files

Unsorted documents, exactly as a client hands them over, including the ones that are missing.

Marked by a Person

A practising accountant reviews your return and tells you precisely what you missed.

A Real Intake

An AI client who only answers what you ask. You run the interview, you gather the facts.

How a Case Runs

Five stages, and no shortcuts through any of them.

  1. 01

    You are handed the file, not the answer

    A real client engagement, reconstructed: slips, receipts, bank exports, an email chain, and at least one thing that is missing or contradicts something else. Nothing is labelled and no lesson is referenced. It arrives the way it arrives in practice.

  2. 02

    You work it in professional software

    Not a simplified teaching tool and not a spreadsheet, but the commercial tax preparation packages used in Canadian and US practice. You learn the software and the law together, because in a job you never learn them separately.

  3. 03

    You decide what applies

    Which schedule, which election, which expense survives and which gets disallowed. The judgement is the exercise. A course that tells you which module to open has quietly removed the only difficult part of the work.

  4. 04

    An instructor marks it

    Your completed return is reviewed by a practising accountant against a prepared answer key, not auto-graded. You get back the specific things you missed and why they matter.

  5. 05

    You interview a client who volunteers nothing

    The final stage is a live interview with an AI client who answers only what you think to ask, forgets, hedges and occasionally contradicts themselves. Most students discover here that their gap was never the tax law.