[foyboyusc]

Hey guys,

I have passed all my exams and now the only thing that is keeping me from being licensed is two lousy educational credit hours. Is anybody familar with online courses or have any suggestions? The good news is they can be any level (that counts) as long as I don’t already have them. After going through the exam and now I have a baby girl at home, I’m ideally looking for something not quite as mind-numbing that I could knock out sooner rather than later. Any thoughts or experiences in this situation? Any advice would be great, thanks so much!

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[foreseeableCPA]

Try a bookkeeping course unless you have already completed a similar course. At my local CC, there are many online courses that relate to accounting, business, and economics. But to keep it easy, pick an introduction course.

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[mangos]

intro to pop culture or any other course that'll assign movies for homework.

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[foyboyusc]

Thanks forseeableCPA! I am looking now as we speak to see if that is an option at some of the local community colleges here. I should have specified mangos, I need an Accounting class to bump me up that final stretch, that would be a fun class though 🙂

[IwannaBaCPA]

You can certainly find an accounting course online that would likely work. I needed 5 credits when I graduated college to get me to the full 36 accounting credits needed. I took Quickbooks online from a local CC and I took Government and NFP online at a CC in another state. You can always venture out to other states if your local CC has nothing. Quickbooks was literally incredibly easy – try to take something like that if you can.

The BIG thing to remember is to make sure the school is accredited – at least regionally. You can usually tell from the school's website.

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[foyboyusc]

Thanks IwannabeaCPA! Since you've said that I've been seeing what I can find via Quickbooks classes, as that would be useful to show that I have with some future careers moves. I have not had any luck tracking down any yet though, do you mind if I ask where you took your course?

[Anonymous]

If you don't need them to be in accounting, then I would recommend any CLEP test that your college will put on your transcript for you: https://clep.collegeboard.org/exam Pick a topic you're good at, order a REA (just look up REA CLEP and the test title on Amazon), and in a week you can be done and on to the rest of life. 🙂 $99 for the test, probably $20-25 for materials.

Or even better (and free!), if your college will recognize FEMA courses: https://training.fema.gov/is/ Or you can pay $79/credit to have them converted into college credit through Frederick Community College: https://em-study.com/emsfema/ (the FEMA website links to this site). The courses are on a variety of topics, but you could literally do one in an hour or less. I think the quickest one I did took 15 minutes. Not quite sure how they 15 minutes can count as a college credit, but hey, if they count, I won't complain! 😉 I transferred mine into Thomas Edison State College, which is where I graduated from, but for a non-enrolled student, they'd charge about $600 to convert the FEMA courses into college credits, so Frederick is probably a much better option.

You might not learn a lot with either of these options, but they're both quite cheap and quite quick, which is why I loved them for my extra non-accounting credits!

If you need accounting credits, I took all of my accounting classes through Louisiana State University's online programs: https://is.lsu.edu/courselist.asp?cat=Accounting&nid=102&pg= Haven't checked prices for this coming academic year, but it'd be approx $400 for a 3-credit course, all online, and you could have a course done in about 8 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Elisabeth: I am very interested in the FEMA thing you mentioned above. Did you have to be enrolled at Fredrick to get the credits? Once you received the credits from Fredrick, were they transferable to your other school? If not, would you just send two transcripts to your state board?

[Anonymous]

Also, I take it these courses are online? Or do you need to go somewhere to complete them?

[foyboyusc]

Hey Elisabeth, I just took a look at that CLEP link you sent, I see where it has one accounting available, how many credit hours is that worth? Would they look at that and count it if you get it to a transcript? And to you or anybody who has done it, how did you go about doing that? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi Foyboyusc, I can answer this one. The Accounting CLEP test is for the principles of Accounting class. You probably already took this course in your undergrad studies. Plus, I believe you need upper level credits to meet the accounting hours criteria.

[IwannaBaCPA]

I took the Quickbooks class at Three Rivers CC here in CT. Here is a link where you can search: https://www.online.commnet.edu/pls/x/bzskfcls.P_CrseSearch

You want to select the term, college, “Fully Online” and then Accounting and then Get courses

When I search Fall 2013 – Three Rivers CC – Accounting -> I see the exact course I took which is called “Acct Computer Applications I”. If you click “textbook info” you can see that this is indeed a Quickbooks course.

You can probably search other CC colleges on that same site to see what else may be available. Let me know if you need anything else! Good luck!

BEC: 79 - April 2011
FAR: 78 - May 2011
AUD: 81 - May 2012
REG: 79 - October 2012
Ethics: Passed - March 2013
I am finally DONE!

[Anonymous]

@benboy Sorry for the delay. The college that I went to (Thomas Edison State College) accepted the FEMA credits without doing anything with Frederick, but that's very unique. You'd have to check with your college to see if you could transfer the credits from Frederick to your college, but if not, you can definitely just send two transcripts. The courses are online yes – you download the materials and download the final exam, answer the final exam online, and get an instant score. If you fail, you can retake it immediately. Given that you download the final exam from the start, if you want, you can just look for the answers and never read the rest of the material.

@foyboy Like Ben said, it's intro accounting class. All the CLEPs are quite introductory, so if you already have a class in anything listed, you've probably already done the work! It's just nice if, say, you love Lit but never took a literature class, and wanted some easy credits, you can get a 6-credit CLEP for $100 and not have to study much.

[Anonymous]

Clep exam

[Givemesleep]

Anyone know of a bus law 1 (intro) available that is on line and self paced independent study? Graduated a while ago so clep is not a choice. I have the upper division BUL but FL requires two.

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[Anonymous]

DSST (like CLEP but different) has an intro business law, but you'd have to transfer the credit somewhere. For $579 I believe it was, you can transfer the credit to Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey and get the credit on a college transcript etc, but that's expensive for a single class.

If you can't find an intro class online, Louisiana State University has a couple business law classes, one specifically for accountants. They're both upper-level, so they'd be some work and one is probably a duplicate of what you have, but the second might fulfill the requirement if you can't find intro: https://is.lsu.edu/courselist.asp?cat=Business+Law&nid=102&pg=

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