20-minute webinar
Find the 49 minutes hiding in every 1040
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Where do your busy season hours really go? Not necessarily into the returns. Your time is lost in the handoffs between them. Every 1040 is gathered, keyed, reviewed, chased for a signature, and tracked through e-file. Each pass costs you minutes. Across a full season, how much does that add up to?
This 20-minute webinar shows you exactly where those minutes hide — and how to get them back. We follow one 1040 through a single workday twice: the manual way and the autonomous way. What could your firm do with extra time during busy season?
You’ll leave with:
- Where the 49+ minutes per return hide: 10 on the gather, 25 on prep, 14 on delivery
- The path of one return (e.g., gather, prepare, review, deliver, file) shown twice: the manual way, then autonomous
- The “workflow modes” test: a fast way to spot which stages your firm still runs by hand
- How Scottsdale CPAs runs 1,200 returns a season with fewer staff, zero seasonal interns, and rising revenue
- The four tools that erase the handoffs: SafeSend Gather, SurePrep 1040SCAN, UltraTax CS, and SafeSend Returns
The real payoff is what you do with your extra time: Take on more clients, shift from filing returns to advising on them, and design the kind of firm that wins the next decade. Rebuilding your 1040 workflow is the first step toward running a modern tax practice.
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