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CORONADO, CALIF. -- A tax Practice should adopt a strict quality control policy that would act as "the path that everybody walks down."
The policy should lay out the specific procedures a tax preparer goes through with each return.
"It should be like an assembly line," said Robert M. Pielech of New Bedford, Mass.-based Pielech & Pielech.
Pielech gave his advice to the 200 or so attendees of last month's American Institute of CPA's marketing and managing a tax practice conference.
Accounting firm managers should sit down with part-time workers before tax season and show them the standards they'll be expected to maintain.
"New hires need to be shown some direction," he said. They have to be taught when to go to the code books for help and when to go outside for help.