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Answer 1: Certified Public Accountancy (or becoming a Certified Public Acccountant) (CPA) in the US is a state-regulated and -licensed career. That means that each US state has a board or other legal entity which both regulates and oversees the process; and which administers CPA exams, and awards licenses. And each state's educational requirements are different. Most require a four-year bachelors degree in accounting from a college or university accredited by an agency approved by the US Department of Education (USDE), and/or the USDE-sanctioned Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)...
...and some of them will even be even more specific than that, and will even limit it to certain schools... sometimes even only within their states.
Whether any of them will allow a person to sit for the CPA exam with only a two-year associates degree is something you'd have to determine for yourself by first figuring out in which state you'd like to be a CPA, and then asking its CPA licensing board what are its educational requirements.
I'm fairly certain that no US state will allow its CPAs to have only associates degrees, but your final authority on this matter should be -- and should only be -- the CPA licensing authority in whatever state in which you'd like to be a CPA. Do not go by anything you learn in a place like this.
Persons with two-year associates degrees in accounting can become bookkeepers, though; and some states even license (or at least certify) that.
Again, though, only the state, and no one here, can give you the answer you truly seek, and upon which you may reasonably rely.
All fifty states' CPA licensing authorities have websites, on which are the rules, and downloable guides, state regulations and laws, etc., etc. Figure out the state in which you'd like to be a CPA, and then go Google to find its CPA licensing authority (probably called something like a "Board of Public Accounting" or "Board of Public Accountancy" or something like that) and then go visit its site and read, read, read until you understand.
Then get whatever degree is required, do well, sit for the CPA exam, and become a CPA!
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