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?
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