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Tax Analyst with AI Skills Specialization

Launch Your Tax Analyst Career with AI Skills.

Build ONESOURCE, Excel, and ChatGPT skills to prepare corporate tax workpapers and returns.

Samuel Oduro

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Beginner level

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Prepare corporate tax workpapers in Excel that map cleanly to ONESOURCE inputs

  • Use ChatGPT responsibly to draft summaries, checklists, and research notes within tax compliance limits

  • Reconcile book-to-tax differences, depreciation adjustments, and provision workpapers for routine filings

  • Communicate tax status, audit support, and research findings clearly to reviewers and stakeholders

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Specialization - 6 course series

Digital Tools & Data Management

Digital Tools & Data Management

Course 1, 5 hours

What you'll learn

  • Build reviewer-ready Excel tax support schedules using SUMIF, XLOOKUP, and structured workbook design that maps cleanly to ONESOURCE inputs.

  • Use AI tools to draft tax summaries and checklists, apply the OJSFC prompt framework, and verify outputs before they enter any workpaper.

  • Conduct defensible tax research using the hierarchy of tax authorities and document structured research notes ready for reviewer use.

  • Extract trial balance and account activity data from ERP systems and map accounts to tax return lines using a crosswalk template.

Operational Excellence & Process Management

Operational Excellence & Process Management

Course 2, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Resolve routine tax workflow issues including broken Excel links & incomplete ONESOURCE inputs using structured troubleshooting & escalation steps.

  • Classify tax workflow problems as data, process, or tax-logic issues and write clear escalation notes that help senior reviewers act quickly.

  • Identify repeatable compliance workflow steps suitable for low-risk automation and build formula-driven Excel review flags that catch errors early.

  • Create reusable ChatGPT prompt templates and standardized Excel tools that reduce manual effort on recurring entry-level tax analyst tasks.

Stakeholder Communication & Governance

Stakeholder Communication & Governance

Course 3, 0 minutes

What you'll learn

  • Draft concise tax status updates and data-request communications using specific evidence from ONESOURCE and Excel in plain business language.

  • Assemble audit-ready tax support packages that link filed return positions to supporting workpapers and source documents with a tracking log.

  • Apply confidentiality controls when using ChatGPT in tax workflows — excluding sensitive data, labeling drafts, and routing conclusions for review.

  • Gather stakeholder tax requirements using structured intake questions & summarize findings in a factual, non-advisory format with workpaper evidence.

Tax Filing & Compliance

Tax Filing & Compliance

Course 4, 0 minutes

What you'll learn

  • Use the ONESOURCE entity calendar to identify filing deadlines and validate workpapers and attachments before submission.

  • Prepare Excel tax workpapers mapping book amounts to ONESOURCE return fields and populate return data from source schedules & prior-year references.

  • Recall core federal and state tax terminology and explain how law changes affect return inputs using ChatGPT and primary source verification.

  • Navigate the major sections of a corporate tax return in ONESOURCE and reconcile key return amounts to workpapers and prior-year filings.

Tax Planning & Analysis

Tax Planning & Analysis

Course 5, 0 minutes

What you'll learn

  • Identify routine tax planning drivers from Excel schedules and flag material year-over-year changes in ONESOURCE for escalation to senior reviewers.

  • Compute effective tax rates and period-over-period variances in Excel to explain movements that drive tax return differences.

  • Build Excel pivot tables to detect unusual variances in taxable income and interpret ONESOURCE exception reports to classify items for follow-up.

Tax Operations

Tax Operations

Course 6, 0 minutes

What you'll learn

  • Understand the ASC 740 provision structure and populate a deferred tax rollforward schedule identifying temporary differences as DTAs or DTLs.

  • Apply MACRS depreciation rules, Section 179, and bonus depreciation to fixed asset schedules and reconcile book-to-tax differences in ONESOURCE.

  • Apply a pre-submission validation checklist in ONESOURCE and resolve common e-filing rejection codes before a return is authorized for submission.

  • Identify eligible deductions and credits from taxpayer facts and audit documentation packages to verify substantiation before return preparation.

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