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Sample Readiness Audits

Same engine. Four courses. A different finding each time.

Each evidence file maps a course against the August 2026 NASBA Statement on Standards for CPE Programs — by locator, with receipts — and reports an honest "not evaluable" on everything the materials don't show.

Two of these are run on real, publicly-listed CPE courses (provider identities withheld), from public information alone — no engagement, no access to the course body. Two are full synthetic walkthroughs that also exercise the live lanes: a grounded rebuild where every sentence carries a citation, and the moment the engine refuses to fabricate a section the materials don't support. Different lead finding every time; the discipline is the same.

Real course · public dataNASBA · Taxes

Like-kind Exchanges

A NASBA-registered tax-CPE sponsor · 2-credit self-study · identity withheld
Lead finding: the delivery method contradicts itself — sold as on-demand self-study yet tagged group-live — which changes the rules for completion, engagement, and credit. Plus two objectives not phrased as outcomes, and no declared exam.
1 finding4 review notes55 not evaluable
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Real course · public dataNASBA · Taxes

Individual Tax Credits

A major tax & accounting CPE publisher · 1-credit self-study · identity withheld
Lead finding: stale content — a tax course published in January 2020, with an objective anchored to the "2020 adoption credit," still listed in 2026. Tax figures change yearly; the listing itself marks it "currently unavailable."
1 finding3 review notes55 not evaluable
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Synthetic · full walkthroughNASBA · Taxes

2026 Annual Federal Tax Update

Fictional provider · 4-credit QAS self-study · all lanes exercised
Lead finding: a 3-credit overclaim — 4.0 claimed, the word-count formula computes 1.0. Plus a promised objective with no content, caught twice: by the map, and by the engine refusing to write the missing section.
3 findings9 satisfied48 not evaluable
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Synthetic · different yardstickNASM · Music

Survey of Western Music History

Fictional conservatory course · mapped against NASM Handbook · catalog-agnostic demo
Lead finding: a course advertised as covering music "to the present day" whose repertory stops at Brahms and stays within a single tradition — breadth gaps surfaced against a completely different standard, same engine.
Different standardSame coverage lane
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About these samples. Every file maps the course against the Statement on Standards for CPE Programs (or the NASM Handbook) by locator. They imply no NASBA, AICPA, or NASM review, endorsement, or approval, and are not registry or accreditation determinations — the applicable boards and accreditors hold final authority. The real-course samples were run from public listings only, with no provider engagement and no access to the course body, and provider identities are withheld; "not evaluable" means the public materials gave no evidence either way — nothing was guessed. The standards catalogs are point-and-cite records (numbers, headings, and our paraphrases only); no standards body text is stored or reproduced.
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