{"id":258,"date":"2016-01-07T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accounting\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:46:49","slug":"cpa-exam-general-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/business.austincc.edu\/accounting\/cpa-exam-general-information\/","title":{"rendered":"CPA Exam General Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Qualifications<\/a> –<\/strong> To sit for the CPA exam, a candidate must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree with 150 credit hours (a master’s degree is not required). The candidate must have at least 36 total hours of accounting (30 hours above the principles courses) and 24 total hours of\u00a0business courses (effective February 2008). In addition, effective July 1, 2005, candidates must complete three hours of accounting ethics.
\nACC’s accounting department has been approved<\/a><\/strong> by the State Board to help students meet their educational requirements to sit for the CPA exam. ACC offers an advanced technical certificate for students who are pursuing the hours for the CPA Exam. This is the Professional Accountant<\/strong>\u00a0Advanced Technical Certificate.You can transfer hours for courses that you have taken at the undergraduate level into this degree plan.
\nBefore taking the accounting and business courses at ACC, you should talk to local colleges and universities about obtaining either another bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree.
\nThe Texas State Board of Public Accountancy (Board) has an excellent web site<\/a>.<\/strong> Please review the material on this site. You need to complete an Application of Intent<\/a><\/strong> to begin your qualification process or you can contact<\/a> <\/strong>the Board at (512) 305-7800 for additional information.
\nIf you have a degree from a country other than the United States, contact the Board to have this degree evaluated<\/a>.<\/strong>
\nIf you take your accounting and\/or business courses at ACC, please review the rules <\/strong>from the Board that may affect you. Also, visit the Educator’s Page<\/a><\/strong> at the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy.
\nThe Accounting Department at ACC offers the upper-level accounting courses through out the city. Please review the course schedule<\/a><\/strong> as you plan your accounting courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Qualifications – To sit for the CPA exam, a candidate must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree with 150 credit hours (a master’s degree is not required). The candidate must have at least 36 total hours of accounting (30 hours above the principles courses) and 24 total hours of\u00a0business courses (effective February 2008). In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"sidekick":"","layouts":false,"hero_content":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.austincc.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.austincc.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.austincc.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.austincc.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/business.austincc.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/business.austincc.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/business.austincc.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}