[KLMCPA]

Hey everyone,

I have seen a few different posts on this forum regarding this topic but none that answered my question completely. I graduated from NAU with two undergrads, one in Business Management and the other in Accountancy, so I met the credit hours required to sit for the exam. However, as any of you fellow AZ university grads know, I’m still short by 2 upper division accounting courses to apply for my license. (Thanks a lot NAU! Haha) Anyways, I was wondering if anyone could tell me specifically where they took extra accounting courses? I’ve seen people mention LSU or GCU but I’d also like to know exactly which courses you took. I’m not sure how to tell if they will overlap with courses I already took in my undergrad? If I apply as a non-degree seeking graduate/masters student will any accounting course I take be ok?

That was a lot of questions but any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

FAR: 92
AUD: 94
BEC: 2/26/16
REG: TBD

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[wombataholic]

I took all the accounting classes required for the CPA exam in Louisiana with LSU online. At the time I took classes, they offered Fraud/Forensic Accounting, Gov't/NFP Accounting and Advanced Accounting as far as advanced classes. I could be wrong though, there might be more available now.

I took Fraud/Forensic and it was a really interesting class. I read through the textbook like it was a for-fun book.

I also took Gov't/NFP. Not nearly as fun and I nearly failed one of the exams because I didn't prepare like I should have, but it lit a fire under me. That said, if you've already passed FAR this class will be a piece of cake.

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[Anonymous]

Knowing whether or not a course will overlap is as simple as whether or not the course is teaching the same material, but as complicated as whether or not someone else will answer that question the same way you will. So, the Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting course that wombat talked about (and which I really want to take someday – I'm totally doing that for CPE in the future! lol) is pretty easy to tell whether or not it will duplicate anything else that you've taken, cause it's pretty unique. It's not a duplicate of cost accounting or plain auditing or taxes or any of your other basic courses. Unless you've taken a course specifically in fraud auditing (not just general auditing) or in forensic accounting, it's a clear separate course!

The ones that get more confusing are things like “Cost Accounting” and “Managerial Accounting”. These 2 course titles seem to have the potential to be interchangeable at different schools. At one school, “Managerial Accounting” is a 100 or 200 level intro course, and “Cost Accounting” is the more in-depth 300 or 400 level course. At another school, it may be reversed, and at a third school, they might only offer the 300 level course. I took all of my accounting courses through LSU than transferred them to TESU; the course I took at LSU called “Cost Analysis and Control” transferred to fulfill TESU's “Managerial Accounting” requirement. So…titles like these get confusing.

If you're looking for 2, then I'd say that LSU could have you covered. In addition to the specific courses that wombat mentioned, I'd add Accounting Information Systems as a potential course that isn't likely to be a duplicate of anything you took previously. It's a 3000 level course; generally anything 3- or 4- is considered “upper level”, so should still count for you. So, that gives you 3 courses that I'd say are pretty save options: Fraud/Forensic, Government/Non-Profit, and Accounting Info Sys. Advanced Accounting is more likely to have been in your core requirements in one way or another (if you had Intermediate III I'd worry that was potentially the same as Advanced, though Intermediate I and Intermediate II are definitely different at most schools).

https://is.lsu.edu/courselist.asp?nid=102&Level=CO&Online=0

[KLMCPA]

Hi Again,

Just wanted to say thanks for your help. I am currently enrolled in Fraud/Forensic Accounting at LSU because of your advice, it's fairly easy so far and actually interesting! So thank you! However, I already took Governmental/Non-Profit as part of my undergrad degree and I also took a course called Accounting Systems which I'm pretty sure would overlap with LSU's Accounting Info Systems class. So I'm still 3 credits short. I was just wondering if anyone else had other suggestions for me?? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

FAR: 92
AUD: 94
BEC: 2/26/16
REG: TBD

Becker Self Study

[hasy]

I'm from CA, and I took my classes at a local community college to just have enough accounting units. I took an accounting excel class and VITA counts too. That was like 5 units already.

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BEC 80 (10/23/15)
FAR 72 (4/2/15); 83 (7/11/16)
REG 52 (4/28/15)
AUD (9/9/16)

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[ZombieMouse]

I'm an ASU grad, and I ended up 12 hours shy of the 36 upper division accounting hours required by the AZ State Board. I ended up taking three online classes through UCLA Extension for about $500-$600 each: International Accounting, Ethics in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis. (My husband took Internal Auditing instead of Ethics, so I know that is an option as well.)

My big disclaimer is that I'm still testing, and not yet certified, so I don't know for a fact that AZ will accept these for non-duplicative accounting credits. I really am not worried they won't, but… you never know, right?

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