5 Ways Thorough Beats Sloppy In Tax Season

Businessmen miserable over errorMake sure your staff feel the same way.

By Ed Mendlowitz
Tax Season Opportunity Guide

Don’t be sloppy instead of thorough.

All work has to be reviewed. And clients and others look at it.

Sloppy work is always evident and usually incomplete. Thorough work is careful and usually complete.

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Thorough work takes longer when first being worked on, but review time is drastically reduced. Further sloppy work takes longer to be reviewed and longer for the preparer to be acclimated with the file when picking it up to make changes.