For firms

Enterprise membership

An organization membership for firms that prepare, review or rely on cost segregation work. It lets your firm sponsor NBCSS memberships for its people and fund their Practitioner Program training. NBCSS does not certify firms: the organization holds no credential, and every person is admitted and assessed individually.

What the organization membership includes — $2,495.00 per year

• A verified organization listing in the public directory.
• Sponsored memberships for your people, included in the organization dues. Each person still applies and is admitted by NBCSS on the published criteria; your firm does not decide admission.
• A firm dashboard for invitations, sponsored memberships, training seats, orders and invoices.
• Bank (ACH) billing, with card or bank transfer as alternatives.

How a person joins through your firm

1. Invitation. Your firm invites the person at their work address. They accept, confirm they work with your firm, and sign in with their own account.
2. Individual application. They apply for membership themselves. NBCSS reviews it like any other application; sponsorship never guarantees admission.
3. Sponsored membership. If NBCSS admits them, their membership is sponsored by your firm and they pay no dues while it lasts.
4. Training seat. A new firm-sponsored candidate for the CCSS takes the full 14-course Practitioner Program; a seat your firm funds starts their training only after NBCSS has admitted them and the seat's payment has settled.

Training seats

A seat is one person's Practitioner Program tuition: $3,495.00 per seat at the base rate. Volume pricing is by quote; ask NBCSS.

Bank debits take up to four business days to settle; a seat counts as funded only once the money has settled. A seat not yet assigned to anyone expires 24 months after its payment settles. Orders, payment and refunds follow the Enterprise Order Terms; the organization membership follows the Organization Membership Agreement, and sponsored members the Sponsored Membership Terms.

What your firm sees, and what it never sees

Your firm sees whether each person's sponsored membership is active, the stage of their application (the outcome, never its content) and, only if the person allows it, their Program progress: courses completed and their last activity. Your firm never sees quiz or exam scores, attempts, practical work, exam status, accommodations, or anything a person buys for themselves.

Education and assessment are separate

The Practitioner Program is member-only education. Completing it earns a certificate of completion, not a credential. The CCSS is decided separately, by qualified reviewers, through an independent assessment: a knowledge exam, a practical exercise and an oral defense. Payment, sponsorship, admission and course completion never award the CCSS. It is a voluntary private credential, not a government license, and NBCSS makes no claim of regulatory approval.

When someone leaves your firm

The person keeps their membership for a 60-day transition period and can continue on their own at $395.00 a year; nobody is charged automatically. Their completions and any credential they have earned stay with them.

NBCSS makes no promise of employment, earnings or business results for your firm or its people.

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