[Anonymous]

Can you practice public accounting overseas? Like in Europe or Middle East?

[Tscape16]

Google:

https://www.aicpa.org/interestareas/youngcpanetwork/resources/career/pages/international-cpa-jobs.aspx

FAR - 90 ✔
BEC - 86 ✔
REG - 82 ✔
AUD - 92 ✔
ETHICS - Passed

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[jcf175]

I wouldn't recommend the Middle East at the moment.

Passed all sections between 5/15 - 10/15 order AUD REG BEC FAR (used Becker only)

[Skynet]

Become a Stripper.

Your Character will the Sexy CPA looking for clients. You have your CPA license certificate to prove it too ; )

[Martin]

Skynet, if the stripper is using her tips to pay for college education, are the tips deductible?

Through God all things can happen!

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people;as I grow older, I admire kind people.
“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.”

FAR= 72-84
Audit= 73-82
BEC= 74-75
Reg=77

[Last Chance CPA]

@jcf175 – I am originally from that region, and I thought that was highly offensive. Just kidding, it was hilarious. I would consider Dubai though, it sounds like a liberal enough city…

FAR - 76
AUD - 75
BEC - 75
REG - 76

Now I need some experience!!! And some networking...

[Anonymous]

I am Middle Eastern. I have no connections there so I don't know who to ask. So I thought I'd find someone here who works in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah or something.

I'm in the US for education and OPT (which is one year of full time work in the US, then I'll leave to my home country – United Arab Emirates- to work for a big 4 there).

I guess I could ask the CPA license experts in my firm, but I doubt they know. In my experience, HR and immigration ppl in big 4 are ignorant about things overseas.

By the way, I will only go back because the pay is more & 0 taxation, like the government doesn't claim anything out of your paycheck which is awesome. lol

[Anonymous]

@Skynet

I guess I could make 200K a year off of that work lol

[sdguy]

You can hang your CPA license on the wall. It looks pretty good there.

AUD: 83
FAR: 77
REG: 86
BEC: 86

[y_u_no_pass]

Do you speak arabic? From what I understand, CPAs who are fluent in english and arabic can make bank in UAE. This is second-hand but I think it could be cool, especially if you are male.

Florida CPA!
Took final exam 2/25/15.
Sent in Application 3/12/15.
Issued License 3/20/15.
Used CPA Excel solely for all exams.

[melody_pinaycpa]

I'm an Asian expat in the UAE for 8 years now but I don't speak Arabic. I hope to see some SIGNIFICANT changes career wise once I pass my last section.

Our Finance Director is a CPA, he is bilingual and his salary has almost doubled since he joined 5 years back. He came from Big 4 though.

FAR (Apr 2015) - 88
AUD (July 2015) - 86
BEC (Oct 2015) - 82
REG - 73, 70, retake Sept 2016

[Anonymous]

I actually speak Arabic, English, and French – I kind of grew up in Geneva as my mom worked for the UAE embassy there- but my first language is Arabic. I'm just gonna send e-mails to relevant people in the office there (or just ping them). I need to plan my 2016 sooner rather than later. lol

[Last Chance CPA]

^ What did that salary look like for a Finance Director? I hear the tax free living is great….

FAR - 76
AUD - 75
BEC - 75
REG - 76

Now I need some experience!!! And some networking...

[Anonymous]

Salaries are pretty high giving that the living expense is very low and no tax. I am not sure how much they get paid there, but I'm positive they are better off over there lol

@Last Chance CPA what's your background if you don't mind me asking? 🙂

[melody_pinaycpa]

Sorry I just noticed this. $160K + housing + children education. He just turned 40.

FAR (Apr 2015) - 88
AUD (July 2015) - 86
BEC (Oct 2015) - 82
REG - 73, 70, retake Sept 2016

[Track55]

You can do lots of things. You can make a hat, or a plane, or a pterodactyl!

AUD - 74, 99 !!
REG - 74, 92
BEC - 83
FAR - 73, 86

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