Your return wasn’t thrown together. Elections were intentional.
Documentation is strong. Strategy decisions were made on purpose.

But under audit pressure, even intelligent professionals:

• Answer questions too broadly

• Miss subtle procedural leverage

• Let scope expand unintentionally

The issue isn’t whether the strategy was sound. The issue is whether you know how to manage the process.

When the same group that built the narrative controls the response, the audit becomes structured and contained — not conversational and reactive.