[Anonymous]

Hi guys. I need about 9 more hours of accounting college credits to become licensed (after I pass FAR). What is a good cheap online school I can get the credits from? My state board won’t accept any credits from the community college here, because I already have those classes and can’t take them again! Any ideas? And also, after passing the exam, how long do you have to complete the remaining credits until they expire?

[Anonymous]

How long you have to complete the remaining credits varies from state-to-state, so the best I can advise you to do is to call your state board and inquire about it!

However, I can help out more with the online accounting classes. 🙂 I took all my accounting classes from Louisiana State University and was quite pleased with them: https://is.lsu.edu/ Click “college level courses” on the left then select Accounting and it'll show all the options. Looks like the courses are up to $505 each (they were $364 when I took them, but tuition goes up ridiculous amounts!), but that's still not bad for a college course! One labeled “online” are a minimum of 8 weeks, maximum of 6 months, everything is online including exams; ones noted “web-enabled” are a maximum of 9 months, minimum is based on only being able to submit 3 homework assignments per week, so if there's 12 lessons it'd be a minimum of 4 weeks till your last homework could be submitted plus a couple weeks for the exam to arrive with your proctor (web-enabled doesn't have online exams), and then a week or two for it to go back and be graded.

If you decide to go this route – or with any other self-paced route – just an FYI that tuition rates tend to go up July 1, so I'd try to be enrolled in everything I was going to take before then. So, if you wanted to take your courses 1 at a time, and around work etc. thought it would take you 3-4 months each, then I'd register for one now and the other two late-June, just make sure one is web-enabled so you have 9 months to complete it.

The one caution I have to give with LSU courses is that there's very little instructor involvement or response. So, if you can use the books, Google, this forum, etc. to navigate your way through the material, you'll be fine…but if you're counting on information from the instructor, you might not be very pleased with their courses!

[Nuffsaid]

Try Foothill college. Very cheap as well, and quarter system. They have lots of accounting classes, upper-level, even though it's technically a community college (is there a no community college requirement or you've taken the classes that your local community college offers? Unclear from your post).

[PorterAJ1]

I also went the LSU route for my remaining accounting credits. Not a bad way to go.

FAR - 77 (10/31/13)
BEC - 75 (12/4/13)
AUD - 85 (1/16/14)
REG - 68 (2/28/14); 69 (4/10/2014); 81 (7/15/14) DONE!!!!

[jeff]

The University of North Alabama has a Professional Accounting Prep Program.

You can take up to eight 3-hour courses to meet your requirements if you need it, fyi.

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[Study Monk]

I am taking some classes from the above link. They have like 5 classes that are based on FAR topics. You would be able to complete 3 of these classes by May no problem. It's important for you to enroll in these classes by April 1st if you want them to appear on your transcripts in the next few months, because that is the Spring semester admission deadline.

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

[Anonymous]

Geaux Tigers!!! LSU all the way!

[Anonymous]

I used Post University. Base price is $1,500 per course but I got 50% off and free books for being a Veteran. My company picked up the $750 per course for four of the six courses I took to get my 24 accounting hours.

If I had to do it over again, I would look at North Alabama that Jeff stated above and also UAB.

I am 2 (if I get BULA classes to count as accounting electives) or 4 classes short of an undergraduate certificate in accounting, but I already have a finance undergrad and an MBA, so I probably won't bother.

[Anonymous]

Geaux Tigers! LSU Baton Rouge Alum – Dec 2009

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the great advice!

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