About Buchanan Education Service
Training you can trust, from inside the audit
Forty-plus years auditing and teaching Virginia Retail Sales & Use Tax — distilled into self-study CPE that meets compliance work where it actually happens.
Jeri Buchanan
Instructor · Buchanan Education Service
The instructor
Four decades inside Virginia’s most-appealed tax
Jeri Buchanan spent more than forty years auditing and teaching Virginia Retail Sales & Use Tax. Buchanan Education Service (BES) grew out of that work: a focused practice that turns hard-won field experience into training CPAs and accountants can actually rely on.
The focus is deliberate. Most non-compliance doesn’t hide in the obvious places — it sits in the nuanced, poorly-written, heavily-appealed corners of the Commonwealth’s tax, where appeals, Rulings of the Tax Commissioner, and court decisions drive divergent interpretation. These are exactly the areas where larger companies carry the most exposure.
Every course is built on Virginia primary sources and shaped by the perspective of someone who sat on the other side of the audit — so you learn not just the rule, but how it’s actually applied, contested, and resolved.
Designed for compliance · Built on experience
Why CPAs choose Buchanan
NASBA-style self-study, authored from the audit side of the table — and grounded in Virginia law, not federal generalities.
The appealed corners
Courses target the heavily-appealed, frequently-misread areas of VA sales & use tax — where Commissioner rulings and court decisions shape divergent outcomes.
Cited to Virginia sources
Every legal point traces to a Virginia primary source: Code Title 58.1, 23VAC10-210, Rulings of the Tax Commissioner, and Virginia court decisions. Not the federal IRC.
An auditor's perspective
Forty-plus years of field auditing means you learn how rules are applied and contested in practice — the difference between passing an exam and surviving an audit.
Where the exposure really is
Most non-compliance sits in larger companies and complex transactions. The catalog is built around the scenarios that actually generate assessments.
NASBA-style self-study
QAS Self Study delivery, field of study Taxes, a graded final exam, and a downloadable certificate you can file toward CPA license renewal.
Training you can trust
Content is reviewed before it reaches you. The standard is accuracy you'd stake a defense on — not marketing-grade summaries.
Compliance & credit
NASBA-style CPE, built for license renewal
Courses are delivered as QAS Self Study in the field of study Taxes. You study online, pass the final exam at 70% — with unlimited retakes and a full year from purchase — and receive a downloadable certificate recording your CPE hours, field of study, and completion date. NASBA sponsor information is printed on each certificate.
Start with the courses built from the audit
Create your free account, then study Virginia sales & use tax CPE written by an instructor who spent 40+ years in the audits you're preparing for.