Please Note: If you have not yet applied, education documents received will be kept on file for one year. After that time, these documents will be destroyed, and you will need to resubmit new education documents at the time of application. Education requirements must be met through academic coursework completed at an accredited institution. Professional training is not acceptable toward these requirements.
Coursework completed as part of a Chartered Accountant or similar program is considered professional training and is, therefore, not accepted toward the education requirements for the U. Uniform CPA Examination. If you have 15 years of public accounting experience, you must: contact the New York State Education Department to review your experience.
See the instructions in your licensure application packet. Course Requirements A maximum of 6 semester hours in internships may be accepted toward the education requirements provided credit is awarded on an official transcript by an accredited college or university. These credits are only accepted as electives and cannot be used to cover any required subject area. Since Taxation can be accepted from a local community college, education earned at a regionally accredited community college or two-year degree granting institution is acceptable except for those in auditing, attestation, and advanced accounting.
Commercial CPA Review courses are not acceptable. Credits for CPA Review courses cannot be accepted toward the accounting requirement. These credits will only be counted toward the business and general education requirements. Upper-division courses mean courses usually taken at the junior or senior undergraduate level. Courses in auditing and advanced accounting must be taken either on the upper-division level junior or senior year of an undergraduate program or on the graduate level.
Taxation courses may be taken at a community college. Correspondence, CLEP credit, CPA Review courses and online courses are acceptable when you receive credit for the courses at a regionally accredited college or university. These courses must appear on an official transcript. Duplicate courses are not acceptable. This includes courses from different schools that cover the same material.
Courses in Communications and Business Law courses are not accepted toward the Accounting requirement regardless of the department in which they were offered. Courses in these subjects may be counted toward the Business requirement. Residency There is not a residency requirement for the state of New York. An official transcript from each school listed on your application.
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You can begin or finish your experience requirement at any point during the process since the experience is not a requirement for the examination, unless you are applying for the examination on the basis of 15 years of experience. To qualify for licensing or registration in New York you must pass the Uniform CPA Exam with a score of 75 and you must pass all parts of the examination within an eighteen month window.
The different sections of the examination and its respective fee will be discussed in detail in the Tests section. The examination fee will depend on which sections of the examination you wish to take the first time or if you want to take all sections. New York will allow applicants who are required to meet the semester hour requirement to sit for the exam when they have completed semester hours of coursework in each of the required areas: financial accounting and reporting, cost or management accounting, taxation, auditing.
The license, however, will not be issued until the applicant has met New York semester hour requirement. If after passing the Examination you are still fulfilling the experience requirement you will have to complete it before being eligible for your license. The Board can take a few weeks to examine your file after all the requirements have been met.
If your application is approved you will receive a congratulations letter with instructions on how to receive your CPA number. You can begin your work as a CPA once you have the number. The Uniform CPA Exam is a computer-based exam available 8 months out of the year during divided two month periods after every 2 month period, there is a 1 month break. The testing company Prometric offers the exam at many sites throughout the US. Simulations are short case studies that put you in a professional situation and ask you to respond as a participant.
Each simulation will require you to compose a professional communication as part of your answer, for example, an office memo or letter. There are 2 simulations in each section of the test except Business Environment and Concepts, which has no simulations. The exam is divided into four sections. You must pass each of the four sections with a score of 75 or higher within 18 months of your first test session. For these fees are as follows:. Just some of these include:. We provide two hypothetical scenarios to show just some of the variety of results that immigrant professionals may find when they seek to become CPAs in New York.
Please consider these scenarios as two examples out of many possibilities. Please understand that individual experiences may vary. There are many credentials available to you as an accountant, some of which you can only earn after becoming a CPA. If you plan to have your own accounting business, it is important to know that you may have to go through one more process: licensing as a Public Accountant Firm. However, if you plan to do business by another name or to include others in your practice you will need to license.
State and national associations for CPAs provide opportunities for professional development and networking. They also help set help introducing new accounting standards and develop exams, and give information and opinions on policy in New York and across the US. Their websites may offer useful orientation to CPA candidates about the licensing and examination process, including test preparation. Beyond these two general associations, there are a large variety of professional associations for CPA and accountants generally.
These may emphasize functional areas of accounting, different types of workplace or sector, race and ethnicity, gender, or religion. Visit the Resource Board to see some of these associations or to share associations that are not currently listed.
The mandatory requirements become effective during your second registration period. You will have to report your continuing education requirements on each January 1 — December 31 reporting year except during the initial registration period. Your may either complete a minimum of 40 contact hours in any recognized subject area or complete a minimum of 24 contact hours concentrated in one subject area. The recognized subject areas are: accounting, auditing, attestation, taxation, advisory services, and specialized knowledge related to specialized industries.
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