MyCPE One company launches assessment solution with AI anti-cheating tech

Professional development platform MyCPE One announced the release of a new skills assessment platform with an AI-powered anti-cheating monitor. 

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Developed specifically for accounting firms, the platform creates purpose-built assessments aligned to actual professional roles such as accounting, audit or tax. The questions, developed by CPAs to reflect actual job expectations, give case-based questions reflecting real client scenarios, documents and judgment calls, with different role- and level-based tracks for staff, senior, manager and specialist roles. The assessments draw from a large bank of randomized forms, which ensure no two candidates get the same test. 

Users get results upon assessment submission, which include scorecard reports with an overall score and pass/fail benchmarks, as well as a topic-wise score analysis showing strengths and gaps by domain. The product is intended to support firms in their hiring, promotion and development planning, which is further facilitated by skill-based interpretation guides. 

The platform’s AI-powered anti-cheating monitor flags highlighting proctoring events and integrity signals. It will detect, for example, when the candidate’s face is not clearly visible on camera, if multiple people appear during the session, if the candidate copies and pastes something, if there are books or notes that are not permitted, if someone is using a phone for possible off-screen assistance, if someone is switching tabs or focusing out their window, or if they’re trying to use multiple screens. 

Organizations both in and outside the accounting world have increasingly been challenged with people using AI during the recruitment process. Even Big Four firms have caught people using AI to cheat on skills assessments and require candidates to pledge that they have finished online tests without external AI tools. This is part of the wider issue of AI-guided cheating, which has bedeviled even some accounting educators, to say nothing of the humanities professors whose subjects have become rife with AI-generated content.  

The assessment platform is part of the company’s broader learning and development ecosystem. Those who sign up for the assessment solution will also have access to the company’s educational library.