Kaplan CPA Project

Kaplan is a $1.4-billion company dedicated to helping individuals achieve their educational objectives. Kaplan offers after-school learning programs in 164 schools, and also runs 4,000 Test Prep and Admissions classrooms and 900 online courses and programs for professionals (Source: kaplan.com).

In early 2006, the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA) announced significant changes to the examination it administers to CPA candidates. These changes would require corresponding revisions of Kaplan's simulation platform and 35 accounting case-study simulations, so that Kaplan test-prep customers could prepare for the CPA exam in an online environment that mirrored that of the exam, right down to the typos. Utilizing css and, for the first time, AJAX programming technology, closerlook created the 35 simulations to be platform and browser agnostic, so that they would run smoothly wherever Kaplan and Kaplan customers needed them.