Methods systems and articles of manufacture for adapting a finance program to a user of the finance program

A computer-implemented method of adapting a tax preparation program to a user of the tax return preparation program, the method comprising:

• an intermediate computer, in communication with a user computer through a network, receiving data related to a first user of the tax return preparation program utilized by the first user to prepare a first electronic tax return for a first year and storing received data to a data store;
• a mapping engine reading or accessing the received data stored in the data store and comparing the received data and profile criteria, the profile criteria comprising a plurality of pre-defined profiles, each pre-defined profile comprising pre-defined criteria, wherein the received data is compared with respective pre-defined criteria of respective pre-defined profiles;
• the mapping engine selecting a profile based at least in part upon comparing the received data and the profile criteria;
• the mapping engine selecting a first template of a plurality of templates, the selected first template corresponding to the selected profile and comprising a first collection of forms or screens of the tax return preparation program selected from available forms or screens of the tax preparation program;
• the tax preparation program presenting forms or screens of the first template to the user;
• the mapping engine determining how the first user of the tax preparation application interacts with or changes the first template during preparation of the first electronic tax return and modifying the first template to generate a second template in response to the first user interacting with or changing the first template the first template;
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• the tax preparation presenting forms or screens of the second template to a second user of the tax preparation application during preparation of a second electronic tax return, wherein the second user is not the first user.