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pl999
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Posted: 30 Oct 2009 at 14:41 \| IP Logged

I just read some of the below threads, and I am in disbelief.

So let me get this straight. I applied for the exam back in August 2008, thinking all I had to do to become a CPA was pass. "Work experience certified by a CPA" was NOWHERE in the application materials.

I took REG in April 2009, passed with a 90. Took BEC in May 2009, passed with an 84. Took FAR on 10/26 and am taking AUD 11/30.

So now, all of a sudden, I CAN'T BE A CPA EVEN WHEN I PASS, because I haven't spent a full year directly working under a CPA willing to sign a certification???? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME???

So, as the holder of a Master of Science in Accountancy, and having been employed as controller of a not-for-profit company for the past SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS, that's not good enough? I don't work under a CPA. Neither the CFO, CEO, nor COO are CPAs. Honestly, am I really expected to leave a perfectly good accounting job, to seek employment underneath a CPA for a year just so he/she can "certify" my work experience?

Seriously, what am I even doing here? Is this some kind of cruel joke? Is there any reason why I shouldn't just cancel my AUD date at Prometric and kill myself?

How can this be???

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pl999
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Posted: 30 Oct 2009 at 15:37 \| IP Logged

I just fired off a very....shall we say, "concerned" email to Veloria Kelly.....I will see if she responds. Somehow, I doubt it, given my experience with this Board.

I even told her that I consider this new rule quite unfair to any candidate in my position. There has to be some kind of window or exemption.

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Posted: 30 Oct 2009 at 20:22 \| IP Logged

Consider getting an out-of-state CPA license, for your use until such time that you can get public accounting experience.

Try this website to get yourself a preliminary look at the state requirements:

www.becker.com/accounting/cpaexamreview/state/index.cfm

Then, go to each board's website and review the regulations. For starters, look at Kentucky where I am a candidate.

I was originally interested in living in Kentucky, but never moved there. I remain a candidate with the Kentucky board.

I like how Kentucky allows any experience in the field of accounting to potentially qualify the candidate. The work experience must be "verified" by a CPA but not necessarily "supervised". I interpret that to mean that you just have to get the right person to say that you did it, and nothing more.

Of course, I am interested in the type of public accounting experience at a firm which qualifies in most states. But I've always been frankly more worried about whether I can ever find a job than about whether I can pass the exam.

I earned myself a degree for a vanishing profession in this country, namely electrical engineering. For seven years since graduating, I have been unemployed more often than employed. This recession which we are in has neither started nor ended for me at any time since the year 2002. It was here all along.

I find that most job interviewers, by now, are cynical when they discuss my resume with me.

Kentucky's licensing feature allows me a wider scope for a job search than most states, whilst I be on a licensure track.

edit:

You'll have to copy and paste that link which I posted, as it does not click through.

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pl999
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Posted: 31 Oct 2009 at 15:11 \| IP Logged

Thanks for the info, but I refuse to accept that.

The Florida Board can't summarily implement a new rule without allowing some kind of window or exemption - for the longest time, no "work experience" was required.

If they give me a problem with this, I am going to fight them.

I actually feel insulted by this new rule, even if it turns out that it doesn't apply to me. So my apparently-crappy non-CPA-supervised job, the one where I'm in charge of the budget process, in charge of working with the auditors, and presenting/discussing the financial statements with the board of directors - almost 8 years of experience in *that job* doesn't cut it.

Yet if I spent a year answering phones and getting coffee for a CPA, that would be all fine and good?

That's garbage. Pure, utter, unadulterated garbage. This rule is unfair, petty, and capricious.

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fla_examer85
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Posted: 01 Nov 2009 at 01:01 \| IP Logged

pl999 wrote:

Thanks for the info, but I refuse to accept that.

The Florida Board can't summarily implement a new rule without allowing some kind of window or exemption - for the longest time, no "work experience" was required.

If they give me a problem with this, I am going to fight them.

Yet if I spent a year answering phones and getting coffee for a CPA, that would be all fine and good?

That's garbage. Pure, utter, unadulterated garbage. This rule is unfair, petty, and capricious.

Unfortunately that is the rule, and I don't know of any exemptions to the rule either. And since the grades expire 3 years after your pass your last part, you would have to begin a job working under an active CPA at the latest, 2 years after your final exam. As someone who is unemployed and only has 6 months public accounting experience, I feel your pain. Pass the exams should = CPA to me.

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