Editorial and corrections policy

People read these pages before paying a registration fee they cannot get back, or before choosing a year of study over a year of work. A stale fee or a misquoted pass rate can cost them money. So every amount is tied to the official page it was read on, with the date, and every total is computed by the engine, never typed into a page.

Sources we use

• CFA Institute: fee announcement, program, policies and exam pages, and the exam results file;
• CFP Board: exam registration, final steps, experience and renewal pages, the historical exam statistics, and its guidelines on the marks;
• the AICPA’s CPA Exam pages; the Virginia Board of Accountancy for the section fee;
• the boards of California, New York, Texas and Pennsylvania, and the Florida Statutes and Senate site;
• the IRS and the Federal Register for the enrolled agent; The IIA for the CIA; GARP for the FRM®.

What we refuse to print

Review course prices and pass-rate claims made by course sellers; figures copied from third-party guides; any fee we could not read on an official page. Where a fee is missing, the page says so instead of guessing. We do not copy the text, charts or documents of the credentialing bodies: we report their figures as facts and link to them.

Marks

CFA® and CFP® are written with the ® symbol and used as adjectives: “CFA® Program”, “CFP® exam”, “CFP® professional”. We never use the letters alone as a title for a person. The owners of the marks have not reviewed this site.

Testing

Every build runs the engine tests, including the CFA® first-try total against CFA Institute’s stated range, the CFP® two-rate formula recomputed by hand and the CPA routes before and after their effective dates. A failing test stops the build.

Review

Figures are reread by hand when a body announces new fees or publishes new results. Nothing is fetched automatically and no schedule is promised. Each page shows the date the figures were last read.

Corrections

1. We open the source again.
2. We correct the parameter file or the engine and add a test for the case.
3. The pages rebuild and show the new date.

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Independence

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