[Ralphie Dos Nachos]

Hi guys,

I graduted with my bachelor’s in Accounting in May of 2017. I’ve signed up for some courses at my local community college and I want to make sure I understand this clearly before I go ahead and pay for the classes. I called up the state board and the lady there wasn’t of much help.

I sent my transcripts to NASBA last year and they said I need 28 credits more to meet the 150hr rule, 6 of which are to be in accounting credits. So it sounds like: 22 credits of anything + 6 accounting = the 28 I need.

I’ve signed up for 3 classes this summer (lol):
1. Nutrition and Sports Performance
2. History of Art II
3. Art of Africa and the Americas

As long as I didn’t take these classes before, they should count towards the 150 right?

[PianoCPA]

I went to school in NYS, and from what I recall, the academic requirements were fairly specific. I'm surprised that the state board wasn't much help. As long as you fit the NASBA requirements, then I would assume that accredited community college credits would count. But be sure you meet the accounting requirements, first.

Here are the NASBA requirements (look near the bottom for “Option 3”):
https://nasba.org/exams/cpaexam/newyork/

[NYSCPA]

@OP your assumption is correct. I graduated needing 26 additional with 3 credits needed in accounting. I took a Govt and NFP accounting course at BMCC to satisfied the accounting credit need. I took a woman and gender studies course at Hunter College. I also did some LSU courses, I saw you had another post about that. I took an economics course and a human sexuality course. Just be mindful that with LSU (at least when I took it) some courses are 100% online, while others are online, except for taking test. The Human Sexuality course for example, was online. But I had to find a proctoring service ( i did it a Brooklyn College) to allow me to take the exams at their location.

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