Usually it requires a general four year degree plus at least 2 years as an understudy at an accounting firm. The test that one needs to take is not easy, and requires a lot of study.
You will have to obtain your bachelors degree and then you can apply at an accounting firm as an understudy before taking the CPA exam.
There are study guides and practice exams you can take online. Visit www.lambers.com/CPA to download free software and also go to accounting.smartpros.com/x24559.xml.
Most states require that you have a bacholers in Business Administration to even take the CPA exams your basicly moving from an entry level of $30K to $47K. Also it would be stupid to have your BA and not take the CPA exam. Why go 95% of the way and not finish off with the most important part?
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to start at an accounting firm you generally need a college degree with at least 15 upper level accounting hours. you can start out doing general bookwork, taxes, or cpa level work. pay varies accordingly. advice? get accounting degree and cpa, go work for public accounting firm and you can write your own ticket.
First, you have to think whether you like it or not! Second, choose a college or trainning institute to study relevant subjects! Third, you have to get CPA ! Now, you can go to find a job!
Go to school
You should go to college and take it there. I recommend pittsburgh univerisity in downtown pittsburgh, they have cpa exams every single day. It is a really good school.
yes you do yuo need to go to school if you want to get any job . Even a hotdog stand because you need yo now how much change to give back to the person !
yes they do when they are both back at CPA
No school.
Very long to go to school
some of them go to school for ten to fifteen years
to get smart.
CPA stands for certified public accountant. These are the tax gurus that businesses use if they don't want to be audited by the IRS. They make a lot of money.
you have to go to school for at least 4 years or 3 years
you have to go to school for 3 to 2 mouthes or years
just to high school didn't go to collage