I have no experience in public accounting and yet it seems every state now has an experience rule, Florida just added one.  So I have a bachelors and a masters in Finance and am taking the required accting courses that I need to get licensed in Florida.  But I will need to wait a year to sit for the exam in Florida so I'm thinking of doing New Hampshire or Maine where I can sit now.

But what happens, you finish the CPA, finish school and then go looking for employment as public accountant?  I hear Florida says the grades expire after one year, do other states just wait till you get the experience?  In the economy we are in, it might be five years before I can get a public accounting job and get the experience I need.

It seems to me that most people do get the CPA exam taken before getting the experience or am I backwards?

robl45

Our strategy for sitting for the CPA seems similar. We should discuss offline to have a meeting of the minds. 

Nice, you will have to let me know how you think it went.  What study program/review course did you use?.