Self-paced courses and free articles on the systems and strategies that keep small businesses out of trouble with the IRS. Written and taught by Foad Nabi — an Enrolled Agent, federally licensed by the IRS — in plain English, without the firm.
This site does not sell consultations or accounting services. It exists to teach the same systems and strategies that working accountants build for clients — so you can build them yourself.
Articles, downloadable guides, and explainers on tax fundamentals, bookkeeping, and small-business compliance. Read on your schedule. No email required for most of them.
Browse the library →Deep-dive self-paced courses on specific systems — QuickBooks for contractors, S-Corp election strategy, audit-resistant bookkeeping. Built once, used forever.
See the catalog →Six modules walking through exactly how to configure QuickBooks Online for a general contracting business — chart of accounts mapped to your tax form, job costing, bank rules that eliminate most data entry, and the reports you actually need to read.
Most tax education on the internet is written by marketers. The strategies look good in a blog post and fall apart in an audit. Everything on this site comes from someone who actually files returns, holds the federal credential, and stays current on the law because the IRS requires it.
An Enrolled Agent is the only federal tax credential — granted directly by the IRS, valid in all 50 states, with continuing education audited by the agency itself. If you’re going to learn tax from someone on the internet, that’s the credential to want behind the words.
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Setup, clean-up, chart of accounts, bank rules, job costing, receipt workflows, integrations. The whole stack, taught from the EA’s perspective on what the tax return needs.
How returns actually work. Deductions vs credits. Schedule C, K-1, 1099 forms. What the IRS looks at first. What gets flagged. Plain-English explainers of the rules people get wrong.
Sole prop, LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp, partnership. When to elect what, when the savings are real, when changing is more trouble than it’s worth. Real math, not slogans.
The industry I know best. Job costing, S-Corp election timing for trades businesses, 1099 vs W-2 worker classification, vehicle and equipment deductions, audit-resistant books.
What audits actually look like. How to build books that hold up under examination. Common flags. How to respond to a notice without panicking or making it worse.
The work that happens between filings. Quarterly projections. Retirement contributions as a tax lever. Income shifting and entity timing. Strategy, not loopholes.
“I worked at a tax resolution firm and watched good people get hit with serious IRS penalties — even though their CPA had signed the return. The mistakes happened years earlier, in the books, and no one caught them. Resolution work felt like cleaning up problems that should never have existed in the first place.”
“This site is the opposite of that. The information you’d otherwise pay an accountant to give you, published openly. The systems you’d otherwise hire a bookkeeper to build, taught as courses you can take at your own pace.”
Read more about FoadThe most common — and most expensive — bookkeeping errors I see when contractors come for help after a year of doing it themselves. Plus the exact fix for each one, from an Enrolled Agent who reads the returns these books support. Free PDF, 12 pages, no fluff.
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Free guide if you want a 15-minute read. Newsletter if you want to learn over time. The course if you want the full QuickBooks-for-contractors walkthrough.