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Posted: 05 Feb 2010 at 11:08 | IP Logged  

I received my packet on Monday 2/1/10. It clearly indicated the June deadline for the exception in work experience. I mailed my check and application back on Tuesday. Further, they eliminated the laws and rules test. Hopefully the next thing I receive will be the license.

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I got mine and did the same! I can see them working on it in the license portal

Looks like they got my check 2/4 and started working 2/8 and did some more stuff 2/10.

https://www.myfloridalicense.com/ExamSchedule.asp?SID=

I had the same impression that Fl Rules disappeared. Let's hope! There was no mention of it.



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On 3/4/10 the rest of my application was completed. I think it is now finished. woohoo

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I just received my license in the mail yesterday. I am now officially done!!!!!!!

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pl999 wrote:

Actually, according to something I read in the minutes of the FL Board's July/August meetings, I *don't think* this rule applies to me.

If I read it correctly, if I applied for the exam prior to 12/31/08 (which I did), and I pass all 4 parts before 6/30/2010 (which I certainly hope to), I *should* be OK.

Regardless, I still await a reply from Veloria Kelly. To those of you in other states, I hope you are thankful that you don't have to deal with this Board. The Florida Board has to be the worst board out there. From the very beginning of my dealings with them, they have been entirely unresponsive and unhelpful. Horrible.

And I still have an issue with the "rule." Honestly, is it not absurd? Why isn't there more of an uproar? How can they all of a sudden require that? It betrays a total lack of understanding or care for how people in this world ACTUALLY GET JOBS. Some, perhaps MOST, of us, don't have the luxury of picking and choosing CPA firms right out of school. So, we go to work in management accounting, acquiring a wealth of valuable experience along the way. Yet you are really going to tell me that ONE YEAR working underneath a CPA is somehow better than my decade of experience?

That rule really needs to be changed, across the board, for *all states*, because that is garbage, really unfair. How does one go about lobbying to change this kind of thing?

 

PL, I feel your pain. I moved to FL last November, but I think when I start prepping for CPA, I'm going to apply to the MA Board because when I pass all four parts, because I meet the MA education requirements, I can get my CPA certificate without any work experience. MA says the license is non-reporting (can't attest) but that "there is no distinctions or restrictions made on the actual license itself and we rely on the member to provide this information if presented on an engagement". This is fine to me because I'm not interested in attesting or reporting on financial statements.

In regards to your question, what can be done, the simple answer is Federal Legislation Get the CPA's in Congress (one from CA, the other from TX and MN) to create a universal rule. The difficulty of CPA mobility and different standards should prompt Congress to bring the profession under the Commerce Clause. I agree, somebody that wants to get the CPA exam out of the way quickly and opts to take it in NH or DE, then gets told by FL or IL that "we're sorry, even though you passed the exams, we can't give you credit because you didn't have the required education credits at the time". Well, common sense says the whole idea around the education requirements is to better prepare for the exam and set the habit of continuing CPE. What difference does it matter when the test is passed?

Okay, I'm done ranting.

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