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The educator behind
every single lecture.

Most institutes use a credentialed founder as the face and delegate the actual teaching to junior staff. RJ Academia was built on the opposite premise — that a student paying for a U.S. tax credential deserves to learn from the person who has actually reviewed those returns in a Big 4 workroom.

Rishabh Jain — CPA (Montana), IRS Enrolled Agent
Rishabh Jain
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CHAPTER 02 · THE BIOGRAPHY

The intersection of
academic rigor & licensure.

Rishabh Jain is an accomplished U.S. tax educator and corporate taxation consultant based in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. His educational and licensing credentials sit at the highest echelon of cross-border accounting and taxation authority. Holding a Master of Commerce (M.Com), he qualified as a licensed U.S. Certified Public Accountant through the State Board of Montana in 2020.

In addition to the CPA credential, he holds the designation of IRS Enrolled Agent — the highest federal credential awarded directly by the United States Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service. It grants him unrestricted rights to represent taxpayers before every administrative level of the IRS, across all fifty U.S. states and international jurisdictions.

This dual qualification equips him with an exhaustive theoretical and regulatory understanding of both U.S. GAAP and the Internal Revenue Code. But his teaching pedagogy is not purely academic — it is informed by six years of rigorous, high-stakes corporate practice inside the global accounting industry.

Corporate arc

Before founding RJ Academia, Rishabh accrued comprehensive experience across leading international accounting, audit and tax consulting practices. His journey includes advisory and managerial responsibilities with BDO RISE, RSM, Frazier & Deeter, and Clark Schaefer Hackett (CSH).

Rising through the competitive hierarchy of global tax consulting, he reached the rank of Deputy Manager before dedicating his focus to full-time mentorship and enterprise tax consulting. He was never just an executor of routine compliance — he spearheaded the end-to-end preparation, strategic planning and rigorous technical review of highly intricate federal, state and multi-jurisdictional tax returns.

His operational portfolio encompassed corporate pass-through entities, consolidated multinational structures, high-net-worth individuals, complex fiduciaries, and tax-exempt organizations — the kind of work that typically takes an associate five years to see in production.

CHAPTER 03 · TAX EXPERTISE

Every form.
Every edge case.

Theoretical knowledge falls apart the moment it meets a real transaction. What follows is a partial map of the returns Rishabh has personally prepared, reviewed and signed off inside Tier-1 practices — the same territory your career will start in.

  1. 01Form 1065Partnerships

    U.S. Return of Partnership Income

    Multi-tiered partnership agreements, special allocations under Section 704(b), partner capital account maintenance under transactional and tax basis methods, Section 754 basis adjustments, debt allocation across general and limited partners, and intricate Schedule K-1 distributions.

  2. 02Form 1120-SS Corporations

    U.S. Income Tax Return for an S Corporation

    S Corporation eligibility, shareholder stock and debt basis tracking, built-in gains tax calculations, Accumulated Adjustments Account (AAA) reconciliations, and distributions exceeding shareholder basis.

  3. 03Form 1120C Corporations

    U.S. Corporation Income Tax Return

    Corporate tax provisions, net operating loss carryforwards under Section 382, Schedule M-1 and M-3 book-to-tax reconciliations, and state apportionment schedules.

  4. 04Form 1040High-Net-Worth Individuals

    Executive & HNW Filings

    Executive compensation structuring, pass-through income flow-throughs, multi-state resident and non-resident returns, passive activity loss limitations under Section 469, and Alternative Minimum Tax computations.

  5. 055471 · 5472Cross-Border

    International Informational Returns

    U.S. persons with respect to certain foreign corporations (Form 5471) and 25% foreign-owned U.S. corporations or foreign corporations engaged in a U.S. trade or business (Form 5472).

  6. 06Form 1041 · 990Fiduciary & Exempt

    Estates, Trusts & Non-Profits

    Estate and trust administration filings under Form 1041, plus non-profit tax governance and public disclosure under Form 990.

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Section references point to the Internal Revenue Code. Each form above corresponds to a specific chapter of the CPA REG and EA Part 2 syllabus — and every one of them shows up in your first week on the job.

CHAPTER 04 · SOFTWARE COMMAND

The tools your first job
will hand you on day one.

Passing the exam means knowing where a number comes from in the tax code. Doing the job means knowing how it moves through the software your firm actually uses. Rishabh teaches both — in the exact platforms deployed at Big 4 and Top 100 U.S. firms.

  • 01Enterprise

    CCH Axcess Tax

    Cloud tax compliance

    Return preparation & review across 1065, 1120, 1120-S, 1040.

  • 02Enterprise

    CaseWare Working Papers

    Audit & workpaper mgmt

    Trial balance, adjusting entries, financial statement automation.

  • 03Enterprise

    CCH ProSystem fx Engagement

    Engagement binder

    Multi-user workpaper collaboration for audit and tax engagements.

  • 04Enterprise

    Fixed Assets CS

    Depreciation engine

    MACRS, Section 179, bonus depreciation and asset lifecycle tracking.

  • 05Enterprise

    GoSystem Tax RS

    Big-firm tax platform

    Complex multi-tiered pass-through and consolidated returns.

  • 06SMB / GL

    QuickBooks Online

    Bookkeeping · GL

    Source data extraction, adjusting entries, book-to-tax reconciliations.

Why this matters: most coaching institutes hand you PDFs and a mock test engine. Your first employer hands you a CCH Axcess login and a partnership return due Friday. RJ Academia's classes are built on the second scenario — because that's the one that pays.

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CHAPTER 05 · TEACHING JOURNEY

From reviewing returns
to rewriting careers.

Rishabh started teaching in 2021, motivated by a gap he kept seeing from the other side of the interview table — a widening distance between what Indian commerce graduates were taught and what U.S. accounting employers actually needed on day one.

Inside firms like BDO and RSM, he was routinely handed the job of training new associates, senior tax specialists and incoming corporate lateral hires — on U.S. tax law, workpaper review methodology and compliance software. It was a natural step to translate that corporate training instinct into a dedicated academy of his own.

Since then, he has personally coached, mentored and guided over 100 students to qualify for their CPA and EA credentials. His alumni are today employed across the Big 4, major international practices and Fortune 500 Global Capability Centers throughout India.

Alumni placements— a partial list, verified via LinkedIn
  • DeloitteBig 4
  • PwCBig 4
  • EYBig 4
  • KPMGBig 4
  • BDOTop 100
  • RSMTop 100
  • Grant ThorntonTop 100
  • Fortune 500 GCCsGlobal
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Our mission is to eliminate the disconnect between textbook theory and professional practice. When our students enter the corporate sector, they don't require months of remedial training — they step into their roles with the operational confidence and technical precision of experienced tax professionals.
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Chapter 06 · The philosophy

Three pillars.
One rule.

  1. I

    Every lecture. Personally.

    Most institutes use a credentialed founder as the face and delegate the actual teaching. Here, every live class is Rishabh — the same person who signed off on the returns.

  2. II

    You talk to Rishabh.

    No helpdesks. No ticketing systems. A Section 1231 nuance, a scheduling conflict, a state-board question — the reply comes from the practitioner, that day.

  3. III

    Passing is table stakes.

    Instruction is infused with the real thing — authentic workpapers, live return disclosures, and the practical mechanics you'll face in your first week on the job.

The rule: if Rishabh cannot personally teach a batch, that batch does not open.

THE END OF CHAPTER 06

You've read the story.
Now pick a path.

Two credentials, one teacher. Whichever route you take, you're learning from the practitioner — not the promotional face.

U.S. CPA12–15 months
For the global career.
Universally recognized across the U.S., Canada, UAE and every Fortune 500 GCC.
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Enrolled Agent6–8 months
For the fast-track.
The highest federal tax credential in the U.S. — direct from the Treasury.
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