Describe a typical day.

10:00 I arrive at the office. Check e-mail, voice mail.

10:15 Start going through the stack of tax returns on my desk that have been prepared by my staff. Flag any questions or issues that I see in the returns.

11:30 Meet with my manager to discuss one client, the owner of a small business who seems to be using his business to pay personal expenses. We’ve been going back and forth on this one for a few weeks; the client wants to continue running personal expenses through his business and is willing to risk any penalties that might result, but we’re unsure whether we’re willing to sign his return; he may have to go elsewhere to get his taxes done.

12:30 Review more returns. Keep flagging issues and areas of concern.

1:30 Go out to lunch.

2:30 More tax returns to review.

3:30 E-mail a client, an individual who’s being audited by the IRS. We need documentation for a number of investment transactions he made in the

late 1990s, so I ask him to compile that documentation for us.

4:00 Get together with one of my staff to go over the tax returns I’ve reviewed so far today. Point out a number of technical mistakes that were made on the returns. This kind of as-we-go training is a significant part of the managerial aspect of my job.

5:30 Do some Internet research looking for cases and rulings that I want to find to support our position on some of our more aggressive clients’ tax returns.

7:00 Finish up for the day and head home.

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