Required Exams To Become A Certified Accountant

The Uniform Certified Public AccountantThe old exams sections were Auditing for 3.5
Examination, or Uniform CPA Exam, is the mosthours, Business Law for 3.5 hours, Accounting
important of all required accountant exams. It isTheory for 3.5 hours, and Accounting Practice,
the examination administered to most people whowhich had two parts that each took 4.5 hours.
wish to become Certified Public AccountantsThere were only two opportunities to take the
anywhere in the United States. There are, ofexam each year, in November and May, and
course, some other required accountant examsthere were no calculators allowed.
that students will have to take throughout theThe required accountant exams for CPAs were
course of completing an accounting degree. But ifrestructured in the early 1990s. Test
you really want to work in the field, the Uniformadministrators eliminated material that they found
CPA Exam is the one exam to be most worriedto be redundant, mostly in the Accounting Theory
about.and Accounting Practice sections, and also
The required accountant exams that are currentlyincorporated machine-scorable test questions to
being used are tough, but they are not nearly asbetter assess the test takers' CPA skills. Special
harsh and grueling to take as they used to be.calculators were also allowed, and four new
The Uniform CPA was a 19 and a half hour testsections were added - Business Law and
that was given over a period of three days, upProfessional Responsibilities, Auditing, Accounting
until about 18 years ago when the exam wasand Reporting, and Financial Accounting and
restructured into a four-section, two-day exam.Reporting.