The California Board of Accountancy ("CBA") has the below four categories that have to be completed to quality for a CPA license.
Check out each section below to follow my progress for completing them all. I'm on schedule to finish all requirements early 2023.
Four sections of the CPA Exam. I must complete the remaining sections by November 2023 to avoid losing existing exam credits.
FAR - Financial Accounting and Reporting - PASSED May 2022
AUD - Auditing and Attestation - PASSED August 2022
REG - Regulation - on schedule to test in November 2022
BEC - Business Environment and Concepts - on schedule to test in January 2023
Note: The below breakout has not been reviewed by the California Board of Accountancy and is my own estimate of how I expect my credits will apply to their requirements.
My Master's degree is in Finance and not Accounting, which means I have some catch-up work to meet the additional accounting education requirements.
24 Semester Units - Accounting Subjects
Intro to Financial Accounting (4)
Accounting Information & Business Process 1 (3)
Accounting Information & Business Process 2 (3)
Cost & Managerial Accounting (4)
Auditing 1 (3)
Intro to Federal Income Tax (3)
ENROLLED FALL 2022 - Entrepreneurial Accounting (3)
24 Semester Units - Business-Related Subjects
Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1 (4)
Principle Microecononmics (3)
Principle Macroeconomics (3)
Survey of Calculus 1 (3)
Survey of Calculus 2 (3)
Statistics and Business Decisions (4)
Business Finance (4)
20 Semester Units - Accounting Study
Financial Accounting (4)
Intro to Statistics 1 (3)
Principles of Management (4)
Operation Supply Chain Management (4)
Managerial Economics (4)
Accounting with Quickbooks (2)
10 Semester Units - Ethics Study
Management of Financial Institutions (3)
Business Issues & Ethics (3)
ENROLLED FALL 2022 - Accounting Ethics (4)
In the first part of my career I worked in fund administration at State Street Corporation, in Boston, working at every level of financial statement preparation and review.
The Professional Ethics for CPAs exam is usually completed after the other CPA requirements have been fulfilled. I will take this 50-questions multi-choice test in January 2023. CalCPA: Ethic Exam FAQs