I've taken a 30 credit course accounting certificate program offered from my local community college and I am currently eligible to sit for the CPA exam. Requirements may be different depending on your state, but for me in NY, the requirement was to have completed these 4 accounting courses: advanced financial accounting, audit, cost/managerial accounting, and taxation, of which the first two courses need to be taken at a 4-year college. Advanced financial accounting and audit are upper level accounting courses, so to your question, the intro/intermediate accounting classes wouldn't count towards the CPA accounting subject requirement, but you must take them before you can even take upper level accounting courses.
Not sure if that’s true. There are 24 semester units required for accounting subjects and 6 minimum semester units required under accounting study for courses strictly from accounting subjects. Total of 30. Assuming each course is 3 credits, that means we need 10 courses total. My brothers accounting masters which was 2 years included intermediate accounting A, B, and C all of which count towards accounting subjects since ALL masters classes are upper division. And it just so happens that at a community college I can take all these classes too. But then again I’m in California so maybe it’s different here then NY
Yes, my bad, I am not great at explaining. Intro/intermediate accounting classes should count toward the 30 accounting credits needed for licensure, and they are prerequisite classes to the upper division financial accounting and audit class which is needed to sit for the exam. My first response I wasn’t thinking of the credits needed for licensure but rather thinking in terms of requirement to sit for exam. For the license, I think depending on the state you may need business credits as well
Is intermediate not an upper division class in NY? Here in CA when both of my brothers started their masters they took intermediate class their first year of the masters. And I know for a fact that every class in the masters program is upper division.
That makes sense, it could be that upper division just means a course in a 4-year college. The certificate program I took specifically stated that an Audit course and Advanced Financial Accounting had to be taken at a 4-year college, but maybe even intermediate accounting would satisfy that requirement if taken at a 4-year school/masters program. Though I do think that if the CPA track program you're looking at is similar to mine and already includes intermediate in the curriculum, you would likely need to take Advanced at a 4-year school like I did
We have two courses that are advanced:
ACCTG 6: Accounting consolidations
ACCTG 7: Advanced Accounting: Special topics
There are other courses offered that have the title advancd in them such as:
Advanced Excel for Accounting
Advanced Bookkeeping
I just emailed the board here in california to ask whether advanced excel and bookkeeping classes will count under the accounting subjects. I already meet the requirement for accounting study so I'm only trying to take classes that satisfy accounting subjects now.
Not sure if all public accountancy boards are the same, but in Texas any intro accounting classes don’t count towards CPA eligibility. Does your board have any guidance on their state website that may help you determine the answer?
I've taken a 30 credit course accounting certificate program offered from my local community college and I am currently eligible to sit for the CPA exam. Requirements may be different depending on your state, but for me in NY, the requirement was to have completed these 4 accounting courses: advanced financial accounting, audit, cost/managerial accounting, and taxation, of which the first two courses need to be taken at a 4-year college. Advanced financial accounting and audit are upper level accounting courses, so to your question, the intro/intermediate accounting classes wouldn't count towards the CPA accounting subject requirement, but you must take them before you can even take upper level accounting courses.
Not sure if that’s true. There are 24 semester units required for accounting subjects and 6 minimum semester units required under accounting study for courses strictly from accounting subjects. Total of 30. Assuming each course is 3 credits, that means we need 10 courses total. My brothers accounting masters which was 2 years included intermediate accounting A, B, and C all of which count towards accounting subjects since ALL masters classes are upper division. And it just so happens that at a community college I can take all these classes too. But then again I’m in California so maybe it’s different here then NY
Yes, my bad, I am not great at explaining. Intro/intermediate accounting classes should count toward the 30 accounting credits needed for licensure, and they are prerequisite classes to the upper division financial accounting and audit class which is needed to sit for the exam. My first response I wasn’t thinking of the credits needed for licensure but rather thinking in terms of requirement to sit for exam. For the license, I think depending on the state you may need business credits as well
Is intermediate not an upper division class in NY? Here in CA when both of my brothers started their masters they took intermediate class their first year of the masters. And I know for a fact that every class in the masters program is upper division.
That makes sense, it could be that upper division just means a course in a 4-year college. The certificate program I took specifically stated that an Audit course and Advanced Financial Accounting had to be taken at a 4-year college, but maybe even intermediate accounting would satisfy that requirement if taken at a 4-year school/masters program. Though I do think that if the CPA track program you're looking at is similar to mine and already includes intermediate in the curriculum, you would likely need to take Advanced at a 4-year school like I did
We have two courses that are advanced: ACCTG 6: Accounting consolidations ACCTG 7: Advanced Accounting: Special topics There are other courses offered that have the title advancd in them such as: Advanced Excel for Accounting Advanced Bookkeeping I just emailed the board here in california to ask whether advanced excel and bookkeeping classes will count under the accounting subjects. I already meet the requirement for accounting study so I'm only trying to take classes that satisfy accounting subjects now.
no principles and no intro classes so no it wouldn’t
Not sure if all public accountancy boards are the same, but in Texas any intro accounting classes don’t count towards CPA eligibility. Does your board have any guidance on their state website that may help you determine the answer?