2 units short :(

This just gets more confusing.

I emailed the California Board of Accountancy and here is what they said.

Dear **********,

Thank you for contacting California Board of Accountancy (CBA). When the examination application is reviewed, it will be reviewed for examination requirements only. To qualify to take the CPA Exam as a California candidate, applicants must meet the following educational requirements at the time of applying for the exam:

· Completion of a baccalaureate degree or higher from a nationally or regionally accredited U.S. degree-granting educational institution or the equivalent foreign education.

· 24-semester units of accounting.

· 24-semester units of business-related courses.

Due to the high volume of requests the CBA is unable to evaluate transcripts for licensing requirements until an application for licensure has been received. Applicants wishing to challenge a course they have already taken because they believe it may qualify for the ethics study requirement are advised to make their request in writing, identify the key words from the tip sheet that may qualify the course, and provide a course description, syllabus or any other documentation that may help the CBA qualify the course. The request must be submitted with your application. This is particularly helpful when the course title has consequently changed, or when the full course title does not appear on the transcript but instead in the course description or syllabus. Please note that the CBA cannot guarantee the outcome of any challenge to the ethics study requirement.

Additional courses may be taken at a local community college that is regionally or nationally accredited.

Additional information regarding the licensing process, requirements and fees can be found in the CBA’s CPA Licensing Applicant Handbook. All CBA Initial Licensing Unit forms are available on the CBA’s website.

If you have any additional questions regarding initial licensure, please contact the Initial Licensing Unit by email at licensinginfo@cba.ca.gov or by telephone at (916) 561-1701.

Sincerely,

******************

Exam Unit

CA Board of Accountancy

So, correct me if I am wrong, it is telling me that there are no Ethics requirement to sit for the exam. I just have to meet the 24 units of accounting 24 units of business related classes and have a Bachelors to be approved to sit and take all four parts of the exam. But, it is when I complete and pass all 4 parts and then submit for the actual license is when they look at the ethics requirement? But, don't you already have to take an ethics test after passing all 4 parts regardless?

Thanks for the response Steph. Ya, I saw the North Alabama online program. But doesn't those classes fulfill the Accounting Studies section? None of those qualify for the ethics section. The ethics section is actually non accounting classes for the most part. Like, a class I am looking at, which is offered at my local CC is Human Resource Management.

But, ya if I needed to fulfill the actual accounting classes, then I'd probably do that.

But back on track. That is good news I can still sit. So, lets say I pass all 4 parts, and the ethics test, and then apply for my license, how do they know I fulfilled the ethic studies requirement? Do I also submit my transcripts to them? Because I already sent my transcripts when I applied to sit, but of course those will show that I am short on the ethics classes, at what point and to whom do I send my updated transcripts with my completed ethics class? which will hopefully be at the end of June/beginning of July.

Thanks!

Also, this is a bit confusing:

On of CBA tip sheet under the ethics section it says that a Financial Statement Auditing class only counts as 1 unit towards the 10 units of required ethics classes.

https://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/applicants/tip_sheet.pdf

But on the same site, but in the Q&A section, this question was posted and CBA posted an answer that contradicts that requirement

https://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/faqs/faqlic.shtml

“How many units of financial statement auditing qualify for ethics study?

Presently, you may satisfy all 10 semester units of ethics study in financial statement auditing courses, if the course title contains the word “auditing.” However, this will be reduced to seven semester units on January 1, 2017, when the minimum of three semester or four quarter units in accounting ethics or accountants' professional responsibilities becomes effective.”