[WendyW]

Hello folks; newbie here.

I am interested in being able to put the letters CPA after my name, though this is mostly to help my finance career. I don’t plan to ever work as an accountant.

My question is this: What would be the easiest way for me to qualify to be a CPA? Here are my stats:

* Canadian citizen, US resident. I’ve lived in the US since 2007.

* 4 year undergraduate engineering degree from a top Canadian School

* MBA 2009 grad from a top-15 US school.

I am currently thinking that it might be easiest for me to pursue a Massachusetts non-reporting CPA license, since I can get that without ever working as an accountant.

My MBA totalled 60.25 credit hours (5 credit hours in accounting courses, plus 14.25 hours in finance, plus 41 hours in other businessy stuff)

I also am planning to take Kaplan University’s “Graduate Certificate in Accounting” (as I have a relative that works there so I can take the course for free). This will give me 16 additional quarter credit hours towards the 21 required.

https://www.kaplanuniversity.edu/business/graduate-certificate-accounting.aspx

I’m not sure if this plan will get me there ? Is there any other state that I should consider that will allow me to become a CPA without ever working as a CPA?

FAR 66 FAIL Feb 2015
FAR 79 PASS May 2015
BEC 89 PASS Aug 2015
AUD 83 PASS Nov 2015
REG 76 PASS Feb 2016

Applying for non-reporting Massachusetts CPA license