[Anonymous]

I am a little confused with the education requirement for NY. I am graduating with 132 credits (bachelors), which includes all the accounting classes required to sit for the CPA. So I am missing 18 credits.. after graduating can I take those remaining classes either in my college or community college without it being applied to any degree. And what type of classes should these 18 credits be?

[NYCpat]

Multiple options for education requirement in NYS (sorry for the legalese, but such is life):

B.A. Degree or higher degree from a program that is registered by the Department as meeting New York's 150 (post-08/09) or 120 (pre-08/09) semester hour education requirements

-OR-

A Masters degree in accounting from an AACSB accredited accounting program

-OR-

(post-08/09) 33 semester hours in accounting with at least one course in each of the following: financial accounting and reporting, cost or managerial accounting, taxation and auditing, accounting research and attestation services AND 36 semester hours in general business AND at least one course in ethics AND at least one course in communications

-OR-

(pre-08/09) 24 semester hours in accounting to include each of the following: Financial accounting, Cost accounting, Taxation, Audit and attestation AND 21 semester hours in business and accounting, 6 semester hours (or 4 semester hours at the graduate level) in business law, 6 semester hours in finance, 3 semester hours in statistics, and 6 semester hours in economics.

BEC - 82
AUD - 65; retake Feb 2013
FAR - April 2013
REG - July 2013?

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