FORM 1040-CV TO BE FILLED IN BY CANDIDATE File No. 141
United Bureau of Curricula · Office of the Registrar of Careers

Return of Annual Professional Income

of an individual practitioner, as rendered in the manner of the Act of October 3, 1913
For the working life of Katniss Everdeen, CPA and tax historian
Full name of individual: Katniss Everdeen, Certified Public Accountant Post-office address: Sacramento, California
Telephone exchange: (916) 555-0141 Correspondence: k.everdeen@example.com Public record: example.com/everdeen
Statement of the filer, entered in her own hand I have practiced tax accounting for 17 years and have written about its history for 9 of them. My firm files roughly 640 returns a season, and I keep a working library of 212 original tax forms dating back to 1862. I read old revenue acts for pleasure, which my husband has learned to accept.
Schedule A · Gross Income from Salaries and Professional Practice
Enter each engagement on its proper numbered line. Amounts in the money column represent the filer's own valuation of the work.
Line Source of income (employer, position, and particulars) Dollars Cts.
1.
Principal, Everdeen & Ledgerwood CPAs, Sacramento · 2016 to date
  • Direct a practice of 11 staff filing 640 individual and 85 partnership returns each season.
  • Defended 34 examinations before the state board since 2016; 31 closed with no change.
  • Cut average preparation time per return from 4.2 to 2.9 hours by rebuilding the intake workpapers.
 9,600 00
2.
Senior Tax Manager, Delta Fork Advisory Group, Sacramento · 2011–2016
  • Managed a book of 190 clients with combined annual billings of $1.4M.
  • Trained 14 junior preparers; 9 later passed all 4 CPA exam sections on the first sitting.
 6,250 00
3.
Staff Accountant, Gold Line Audit Co., Stockton · 2008–2011
  • Prepared 210 returns per season across 3 filing offices.
  • Reconciled a 6-year backlog of estimated-payment records for 47 accounts in one winter.
 3,100 00
4.
Columnist, "The Assessor's Margin," Pacific Ledger Quarterly · 2017 to date
  • Published 36 columns on the history of American taxation; the piece on the 1913 Form 1040 drew 18,000 readers.
 1,200 00
5. Total gross income from practice and pen (lines 1 to 4) 20,150 00
Schedule B · Deductions Claimed as Education
6.
M.S. Taxation, Capital Valley University · 2006–2008
  • Thesis on withholding practice in the 1943 Current Tax Payment Act.
 2,000
7.
B.S. Accounting, Sacramento Commercial College · 2002–2006
 1,500
8.
CPA License, California · No. 74,220 · issued 2009
 500
Schedule C · Income from Skills and Specialties
9.
Examination defense and penalty abatement
 1,000
10.
Partnership and estate return preparation
 850
11.
Archival research: revenue acts, 1862–1954
 700
12.
Public speaking: 22 talks to bar and CPA societies
 400
Received · Registrar of Careers

Affidavit to be executed by the individual rendering this return

I do solemnly swear that the foregoing return, to the best of my knowledge and belief, contains a true and complete statement of my professional gains, profits, and qualifications; that every figure entered herein was set down soberly and without embellishment; and that I claim no exemption to which I am not fairly entitled under the customs of honest résumé writing.

Katniss Everdeen
(Signature of individual)
March 1st, 2026
(Date sworn before the reader)
PENALTY. Any candidate who renders a false or fraudulent curriculum vitae is liable to a fine of not exceeding the reader's confidence, and to the forfeiture of the interview. References attesting to the entries above will be furnished upon written application to the address given at the head of this return.