Sens89:
zxfmontreal:
Sens89:
Why do you think you’ll have to go back full time? Whats your major in? I graduated with a finance major and am only missing Int/Adv Financial and Managerial Accounting, Audit, and Tax. You can take those through CPA Prep in a one year part time course while working and accumulating your required experience.
I contacted my University and during my Bachelor of Commerce the only accounting classes I took were Introduction and Intermediate financial accounting 1. And I live in Québec now where there is no CPA Prep program until 2014. Ppl at University told me I need to take the 30 credits Graduate Diploma in Accounting program plus 2 more classes to fulfill the CPA prerequirement, which makes a total of 12 classes. Then I need to finish all of them by the spring of 2015…Therefore at one point I will need to study full-time…
Talk to the CPA people then, because if you’re missing the same classes as I am (sounds like it) you could do them part time through distance learning at a university. I think there was one on the east coast which was affordable through DL. I’d hate to leave a decent paying job to go back to school, and the CPA society makes it look like you should be able to do it part time somewhere else. There really werent many accounting classes needed for CPA PEP.
do u know which university is that? I sent my transcript to the accounting society in Ontario already for an evaluation, am waiting for their response…I think they may offer a DL…
meeee20
September 13, 2013, 2:51am
#163
soooo cfa+ 6 month internship(as an equity analyst or whatever)can get me in?
zxfmontreal:
Sens89:
Why do you think you’ll have to go back full time? Whats your major in? I graduated with a finance major and am only missing Int/Adv Financial and Managerial Accounting, Audit, and Tax. You can take those through CPA Prep in a one year part time course while working and accumulating your required experience.
correct me if I am wrong, I think what you have been working for prior to entering the cpa program isn’t counted as the accumulating work experience, and only what you do after you are enrolled into the program matters…is this correct?
You are wrong. Work experience can be done before the exam, after the exam, or concurrently.
The OP is wrong if they think that taking a CPA Prep course (like Becker or Kaplan) counts as college credit though. (At least that’s the way it is in Texas. Each state is different.) They have to be college hours from an accredited school. And yes, Phoenix IS an accredited school.
This article is a couple months old, but does a good job of discussing the benefits of being a Charter holder: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/10/ongoing-cfa-career-benefits.asp
Greenman72:
zxfmontreal:
Sens89:
Why do you think you’ll have to go back full time? Whats your major in? I graduated with a finance major and am only missing Int/Adv Financial and Managerial Accounting, Audit, and Tax. You can take those through CPA Prep in a one year part time course while working and accumulating your required experience.
correct me if I am wrong, I think what you have been working for prior to entering the cpa program isn’t counted as the accumulating work experience, and only what you do after you are enrolled into the program matters…is this correct?
You are wrong. Work experience can be done before the exam, after the exam, or concurrently.
The OP is wrong if they think that taking a CPA Prep course (like Becker or Kaplan) counts as college credit though. (At least that’s the way it is in Texas. Each state is different.) They have to be college hours from an accredited school. And yes, Phoenix IS an accredited school.
I am not sure. I have heard only once you registered with CPA society, you start accumulating experience. What you have done before you become a CPA society member deson’t count. Maybe Canada and US are different.
And does anyone know if the expenses paid for CPA prep courses in Canada are tax deductable?
When people talk about CPA, I assume they mean US.
And in the US, any expenses related to maintaining or improving your skills are tax deductible. This includes CPA and CFA exams.
I’ve (skim) read this whole thread. I expected a better discourse from charterholders.
check out the water cooler
^Nothing but high-brow discussion there