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Tax / 1040 Individuals

Make complex returns routine

Prepare 1040 and 1041 work around your tax engine, keeping source documents, calculations, issues, and client information connected for review

How it works

From client documents to completed return

Collect

Get the right information from every client

Requests, reminders, documents, and e-signatures stay connected to the return

Prepare

Turn source documents into a prepared return

Interpret documents, populate workpapers, handle complex K-1 activity, and flag what needs attention

Review

Start with the work that needs your judgment

See prepared values, open issues, changes, and supporting work together without reviewing the return from scratch

Deliver

Move approved work into your tax engine

Keep your existing tax engine authoritative while the completed engagement and client delivery stay connected

Fast to draft, built to defend

Notice ready

All IRS and state notices with automatic remediation suggestions

Context aware

Customized tax strategies and analysis, down to how each K-1 is treated

Tax engine sync

Roll forward and sync from your tax engine

Full control

See and approve agent changes

Trace to source

Every figure traced to its source

Tax / 1041 Estates & trusts

From governing instrument to beneficiary K-1

Bring trust documents, tax data, and beneficiary activity together so your team can prepare complex 1041 engagements with the full picture in view

Governing instrument

The highlighted provision, how it’s treated, and where it came from

Trust calculation to K-1

Income, distributions, DNI, and allocation across beneficiaries, carried through to each beneficiary’s K-1

From pilot to production in months

Armanino onboarded hundreds of clients and changed how tax review happens

Thousands
Returns processed in 2026
6
Armanino offices onboarded
60%
Reduction in preparation hours
15 min
Median draft time
Returns coming out of Accrual are consistently at manager-review quality. What used to take hours now processes in minutes.
John Karls
National Tax Practice Leader, Armanino
Instead of spending time verifying data line by line, our teams can now start with Accrual's AI-generated preparer insights and focus their expertise where judgment matters most.
Cody Page
Partner, Armanino
It was so much easier this year, not having to send 15 emails a week saying I need this, this, and this. Document collection was probably the biggest win this spring.
Josh Karls
Tax Manager, Armanino
My biggest win was getting pulled in on last-minute returns where people were sending documents the day before. Accrual eliminates that bottleneck.
Michael Emmi
Tax Supervisor, Armanino
The biggest win, hands down, was Accrual support. There were problems but there was also resolution and a way to reach a person to help.
Reshma Agarwal
Senior Tax Manager, Armanino

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