jasonwwall
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I don't know if I have enough education! I passed the
CPAs, got 1 year experience, have at least 24 accounting
credits and 150 total credits. The law is
vague and the board won't tell me.
Here's the PA Law from someone at the PA Accountancy
office: "The Board does not pre-review applications
or
education. If you are referring to the option of
reducing your experience with the 150 credit option, the
requirements are as follows:
The 150 credits must include at least a total of twenty-
four semester credits of accounting auditing, business
law, finance or tax subjects and an additional twelve
semester credits in accounting, auditing and tax
subjects.
The Board believes that the student is able to determine
if the above credits have been earned. If not, the Board
will review the education after experience has been
earned and an application has been submitted. "
Here's the PA Law from their website: "24 semester
hours
in accounting and auditing, business law, finance, or tax
subjects. An additional twelve semester credits in
accounting, auditing, and tax subjects are required.
NOTE: The 24 semester hours must include a minimum of 3
semester hours in accounting AND 3 semester hours in
either auditing, business law, finance, or tax
subject. (See state board web site information.)"
And here are the credits I have:
Accounting (21 credits)
Intermediate Accounting I 3
Intermediate Accounting II 3
Cost Accounting 3
BUSACC 0030 Financial Accounting 3
BUSACC 0040 Managerial Accounting 3
BUSECN 1010 Business Economics 3 ("Builds upon the
standard economic analysis of the firm that integrates a
company's revenue, cost, output, and pricing
decisions.
")
BUSQOM 1070 Operations Management 3 "Topics
include: bottleneck and capacity analysis, and capacity
expansion issues; decoupling the workstations—buffers
versus internal and external variability; economies of
scale in material handling and distribution—EOQ, MRP;
reorder point computations; distribution and logistics
management; scheduling of products, workforce, and other
resources; and GT, JIT, CIM, and FMS."
Auditing (3 credits)
Auditing 3
Business Law (12 credits)
Business Law 3
BUSSPP 0020 Managing in Complex Environments 3
(Attention will also be paid to the construction of
criteria for firm success that reflect the complex
interactions of ethical, societal, legal, and
economic
demands.)
BUSENV 0060 Ethics and the Business Environment 3
("Examines the social, political, and legal
interfaces
between the business institution (especially the
corporation) and the environment.")
BUSHRM 1050 Human Resources Management 3 "Specific
topics include the role of human resources in the
management process, human-resources planning and
forecasting, job information systems, recruitment and
selection, human-resources development, compensation,
legal framework, and evaluation."
Finance (9 credits)
BUSFIN 1030 Introduction to Finance 3
BUSQOM 0050 Quantitative Methods 3 ("Provides the
foundations for two basic business disciplines:
optimization and simulation. Various modeling concepts
that have origins in and have found wide applications in
functional areas such as finance, marketing, and
operations will be studied in depth.")
ECON 0500 Intro to International Trade 3 ("Basics of
International Finance" from syllabus)
Tax (3 credits)
Federal and State Tax I 3
48 total accounting credits applicable (by my count),
36
required for CPA certificate with 1 year experience
153 credits total from all schools
Do I have enough for the State of PA??? Does it count if
it is a business or economics class and has
finance/accounting/law in the class description???
I'm going out on a limb here but I don't know if anyone
has had success with this in the past with the 150 credit
rule.
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BEC - 74, 77
AUD - 72, 74, 79
REG - 67, 76
FAR - 69, 69, 71, 79
Used Phila CPA Review (Bisk), cpareviewforfree.com, Yaeger CRAM and Audio for FAR and Wiley Iphone FAR App.
In PA!
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