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ATS resume keywords for US Tax and Income Tax Provision (ASC 740)

These are the 32 terms our scorer checks a US Tax and Income Tax Provision (ASC 740) resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • us corporate tax
  • asc 740
  • income tax provision
  • tax provision
  • us gaap
  • deferred tax
  • dta
  • dtl
  • effective tax rate
  • etr
  • return to provision
  • uncertain tax positions
  • fin 48
  • interim provision
  • form 1120
  • federal income tax
  • m-1
  • m-3
  • book to tax
  • tax basis balance sheet
  • estimated tax payments
  • extension
  • form 1065
  • schedule k-1
  • form 5471
  • gilti
  • state and local tax
  • onesource
  • corptax
  • sox
  • tax account reconciliation
  • tax compliance

The eight questions for US Tax and Income Tax Provision (ASC 740)

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many legal entities or filing groups do you provision for each quarter?
  2. 2.What result can you point to, such as adjustments caught, close days saved or audit comments cleared?
  3. 3.How many returns, workpapers or forms do you prepare or review in a cycle?
  4. 4.Which forms and areas do you cover, such as 1120, 1065 or international forms?
  5. 5.Which provision and compliance tools do you use?
  6. 6.What have you automated or standardised in the tax process, and what did it save?
  7. 7.How many people do you review or guide, internally or at third party providers?
  8. 8.Which controls and audits do you support, such as SOX or external audit requests?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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