Late Bloomer,

I just passed my CPA exam, and i'm waiting for the congratulatory letter from NASBA.

I worked at a small CPA firm for two and half yrs, i prepared all different kinds of returns (individual, partnership, corporation, estate, fiduciary). Tax planning, financial statement, all the bookkepping, payroll and payroll tax, trust accounting... basically everything except auditing.

Do u think i'm qualify for the work experience?

Thanks.

thanks for quick reply,  do u have any website that i can see the new rules?

By the way, it is so amazing that your scores are so high... unbelievable. Congratulation to you too...

Thanks. :-)  See following at the bottom of http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/cpa/cpalic.htm

Experience Requirements

An applicant who meets New York's 150 semester hour education requirements for licensure must present evidence, satisfactory to the State Board for Accountancy, of one year of full-time experience (or the part-time equivalent) providing accounting services or advice involving the use of accounting, attest, compilation, management advisory, financial advisory, tax, or consulting skills under the supervision of a certified public accountant licensed in one of the U.S. jurisdictions or a public accountant licensed in New York State. Acceptable experience may be earned in a public accounting firm, government, private industry or an educational institution.

An applicant for licensure who met the eligibility requirements for grand-parenting under New York's 120 semester hour education requirements must document at least two years of full time experience (or the part-time equivalent), as described in the paragraph above. An applicant who is eligible for grand-parenting may choose to take the additional course work required to meet the 150 semester hour requirements and thereby qualify for a one year reduction in the experience requirement. Such an applicant must have his/her schools submit official transcripts documenting the additional course work to the Education Department for review when he/she submits documentation experience documentation (Forms 4 and 4B)

An applicant who was approved to sit for the examination based on 15 years of experience acceptable to the State Board for Accountancy in lieu of meeting the education requirements does not need to document any additional experience.

Full-time employment is considered to be a 5-day, 35-40 hour week, excluding overtime. Acceptable part-time (no less than 20 hours per week) experience will be considered on the basis of one week of experience for every two weeks worked.

See the instructions for Employer Form 4B for further detail on qualifying experience.

my previous employer is going to help me to sign off the experience requriement (form 4B), so do i have to send the form 4B on the same day ?

I took my last section AUD on 10/13, and got the socore on 11/20, but right now i 'm still waiting for the congratulatory letter. Can i send out the form 4 without receive this letter?

Thanks for your help again.

Merry Christmas!