Non professionals can apply for the examination of certified public accountants, and the examination of certified public accountants has no restrictions on majors. As long as they have a college degree or above, or have an intermediate technical title or above in accounting related majors, they can apply for the examination of certified public accountants. The CPA examination is divided into professional stage and comprehensive stage. Only after passing the professional stage examination can candidates take the comprehensive stage examination.
According to the Measures for the Administration of Exemption from the National Unified Examination for Certified Public Accountants, persons with senior accountants, senior auditors, senior economists and senior statisticians, or with senior technical titles of associate professors and associate researchers or above in economics, management and statistics related disciplines (hereinafter referred to as exempt applicants), You can apply for exemption from the examination of one specialized subject in the professional phase of the national unified examination for certified public accountants. After the applicant applies for the test exemption subject, the test exemption subject is valid for a long time. Once the test exemption subject is selected, it cannot be replaced. Therefore, the selection of the test exemption subject must be carefully considered. In addition, the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants can apply for exemption from some examination subjects if it has reached mutual exemption from some examination subjects with overseas accounting professional organizations in accordance with the principle of reciprocity, as well as those who meet the exemption conditions.
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Can I take the CPA exam if I'm not an accountant
sure.
The threshold for applying for the CPA exam is low, and there is no professional restriction. Non accounting majors can also take the CPA exam. Chinese citizens who have graduated from junior college or higher education, or have an intermediate or higher technical title in accounting or related majors, may apply to take the unified national examination for certified public accountants; Personnel with senior technical titles in accounting or related specialties may be exempted from examinations in some subjects.
The registration conditions are as follows:
1、 Chinese citizens who simultaneously meet the following conditions may apply to take the professional examination for certified public accountants:
1. Have full capacity for civil conduct.
2. Have a college degree or above, or have an intermediate technical title or above in accounting or related majors.
2、 Chinese citizens who simultaneously meet the following conditions may apply to take the comprehensive stage examination of the unified national examination for certified public accountants:
1. Having full civil capacity;
2. It has obtained the professional qualification certificate of the national unified examination for certified public accountants.
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For non accounting majors, the reason for taking the CPA exam:
1. For career development
After the cancellation of the accounting certificate, the threshold for entering the field of finance and accounting has disappeared. In order to obtain a job opportunity, non accountants are likely to agree with the salary level of other accountants when interviewing for a position, and then succeed in the job interview. With the improvement of working ability, if you can add the high quality certificate of certified public accountant, you can often have more career development opportunities.
2. In order to change the field of finance and accounting
Certified public accountants are highly recognized in the financial and accounting circles. Even if they are non accounting professionals, they can be invited by many accounting firms as long as they successfully pass the CPA exam. As the talent gap of certified public accountants has always existed, both accounting firms and enterprises are in urgent need of talents with certified public accountants. The certified public accountant certificate is the "stepping stone" for non accounting personnel to successfully change careers.
Can non accounting majors take the CPA exam
According to the registration conditions of certified public accountants, we can know that non professionals can take the examination of certified public accountants.
Conditions for registration of certified public accountant: Chinese citizens who have graduated from a junior college or higher, or have an intermediate or higher technical title in accounting or related majors, may apply to take the unified national examination for certified public accountants; Personnel with senior technical titles in accounting or related specialties may be exempted from examinations in some subjects.
Registration conditions
(1) Chinese citizens who simultaneously meet the following conditions may apply to take the professional examination of the unified national examination for certified public accountants: they have full civil capacity; Have a college degree or above, or have an intermediate technical title or above in accounting or related majors.
(2) Chinese citizens who simultaneously meet the following conditions may apply to take the comprehensive examination of the unified national examination for certified public accountants: they have full civil capacity; It has obtained the professional qualification certificate of the National Unified Examination for Certified Public Accountants issued by the Certified Public Accountants Examination Committee of the Ministry of Finance (hereinafter referred to as the Examination Committee of the Ministry of Finance) and is within the validity period.
(3) A person who has one of the following circumstances shall not register for the national unified examination for certified public accountants: the person whose certificate of certified public accountant has been revoked, and the period from the date of the decision of punishment to the date of application for registration is less than five years; Those who participated in the national unified examination for certified public accountants in the previous year and were suspended for violation of regulations before the expiration of the time limit.
Exemption conditions for professional stage examination
Personnel with senior technical titles in accounting or related specialties (including those with professional titles of associate professor or associate researcher in accounting or related specialties or above in schools and research institutions) can apply for exemption from the examination of one specialized subject in the professional phase examination.
The year of exemption is the year when the applicant submits the application, and the applicant shall submit the application for exemption before the beginning of the examination in this year.
[Extended Data] 1. Examination subjects
The examination is divided into professional stage examination and comprehensive stage examination. Candidates can take the comprehensive stage examination only after they have passed all the subjects of the professional stage examination.
Professional examination subjects: accounting, auditing, financial cost management, corporate strategy and risk management, economic law, and tax law;
Comprehensive examination subjects: comprehensive professional ability test (test paper I, test paper II);
Examination scope: determined by the Examination Committee of the Ministry of Finance in the released examination outline.
2. Examination method
The examination adopts closed book, computerized examination (computer test for short). That is, obtain the test questions, answer and submit the answers at the computer terminal. The exam system supports eight input methods: Microsoft Pinyin Input Method, Quanpin Input Method, Intelligent ABC Input Method, Google Pinyin Input Method, Sogou Pinyin Input Method, Wangma Five stroke Input Method, Top Five stroke Input Method, and Universal Five stroke Input Method.
3. Answer time
The examination time for accounting subjects is 180 minutes, the examination time for audit and financial cost management is 150 minutes, and the examination time for economic law, tax law, corporate strategy and risk management is 120 minutes.
Can people who are not accounting majors take the CPA certificate?
sure.
According to the registration conditions of certified public accountants, a person with full civil capacity who has graduated from a college or above, or has an intermediate or above technical title in accounting or related majors can apply for the examination. There are no restrictions on specialty.
1. Having full civil capacity; Have graduated from a college or above, or have an intermediate or above technical title in accounting or related majors; You can apply to take the professional stage examination of the national unified examination for certified public accountants.
2. Having full civil capacity; Having obtained the professional qualification certificate of the National Unified Examination for Certified Public Accountants; You can apply to take the comprehensive stage examination of the national unified examination for certified public accountants.
Extended data The role of non accounting professionals in the examination:
1. Can harvest knowledge
It is always good to learn more. Not everything should be judged by "whether it is useful or not". In the process of the exam annotation meeting, the knowledge learned will help improve your life to a certain extent. There are many subjects in the CPA exam, and each subject covers a wide range of contents. In the process of preparing for the exam annotation, as long as you study hard, you will get nothing less. If you successfully pass the exam, you will also have a certificate with high gold content.
2. College examinees don't waste time
College courses are generally relatively few, and college students have a lot of extra-curricular time. In order not to waste the good time on campus, we can use the extracurricular time to learn the annotation knowledge. "School is the palace of knowledge". After leaving the society, it is difficult to have such good conditions to study on campus. Although college students can not register for the exam, it is always not harmful to learn the exam early.
3. The "stepping stone" for on-the-job candidates to switch to accounting