subject: Little Known Requirements To Qualify To Sit For The Cpa Exam [print this page] While most states ask for a combination of these factors to meet the state requirements to sit for the exam: *Ethics *Experience *Education *Ability to pass the exam
There are states which ask that you meet some rather interesting requirements before you sit for the exam. These include but are not limited to:
Education: New York accepts fifteen years of accounting experience in lieu of a college degree. Delaware requires at least an associate's degree. Alaska and Michigan will let you sit for the CPA exam if you have a bachelor's degree in progress. Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont require at least a bachelor's degree.
(All other jurisdictions require 150 semester hours which equals part of a master's degree program.) Kansas requires that you have at least 11 semester credit hours in written and oral communications. North Carolina requires that you have *A bachelor's degree OR *have started a master's degree OR *that if you have scored in the 50th percentile rank or higher on each part of either the Graduate Record Examination or the Graduate Management Admission Test. Ohio requires: *150 semester hours of general college education, OR *a minimum combined score of 1200 on the GRE, an associate's or baccalaureate degree, and 30 semester hours of specified accounting courses and 24 semester hours of business courses. Puerto Rico requires at least 2.0 GPA in your accounting and business courses during your 150 semester hours of college education. Age: Many states have no minimum age requirement including: California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Residency: You must be a resident, or regularly employed, or working in the state within the 90 days preceding or following the date of the CPA Exam: Minnesota. You must be a resident or regularly employed or have a business in Puerto Rico and Rhode Island. You must be a resident of or regularly employed in Missouri and Nebraska. You must be resident of Idaho or plan to become one. You must be a resident of the state for a period of 120 days, within one year prior to the CPA Exam date in Louisiana. Guam: charges an extra $100 per section if you are a non-resident of Guam.
Social Security Card: You need a valid Social Security card in Virginia. Letters of Reference or Good Conduct: You must submit three Character Reference Letters in Arkansas. You must submit a Letter of Good Conduct from the police department in Idaho and Puerto Rico if you wish to sit in either jurisdiction. Application Variations: Florida State Board of Public Accountancy requires that if you are a first time candidate, that you begin the application process by submitting your initial application to the Board directly: When you are approved by the Board, the rest of your application process is handled by CPA Examination Services (CPAES).
Fees: Kentucky has an initial application fee of only $30.00 but the fee to test for a single section of the exam can be as high as $256.28.
Texas has a very interesting fee structure *Texas Application Fee *First Time Application of Intent: $50.00 *Eligibility Application: $15.00
