Applying for the Uniform CPA Exam

Before applying for the Uniform CPA Examination through CPA Examination Services (CPAES), please familiarize yourself with this jurisdiction's educational requirements to determine if yous are eligible to utilize as a get-go-time candidate. You are also brash to read The Candidate Bulletin before submitting applications online. You are able to apply for one or more sections of the examination at a time; even so, you are brash to but apply for a section of the examination if yous are ready to take it inside the next six months.

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Yous may register online via credit menu. To apply for the CPA Examination online, you volition be asked to create a user account upon your starting time usage of our online application tool. If y'all've previously applied for the CPA Exam exterior of our online application tool (via newspaper application or other method), you will need to import your previous application information. To practice this, you will need to know the jurisdiction in which you sat for the examination as a first-fourth dimension candidate, and your Jurisdiction ID Number. If you need your Jurisdiction ID number, click here. Registering for a user account will permit you to utilise for the exam, maintain your electric current information, view your scores, check your awarding condition and reprint your Observe(s) To Schedule.

NASBA Informational Evaluation

Indiana offers the NASBA Advisory Evaluation as an optional service. An Advisory Evaluation will identify whatever academic deficiencies in your education earlier y'all submit a get-go-fourth dimension application for the Examination. Delight visit CPA Key for more than information virtually submitting an Advisory Evaluation in this jurisdiction. Y'all must create a CPA Primal user account to begin the Advisory Evaluation procedure.

Send any additional required data or documents to:

CPA Examination Services – IN
PO Box 198469
Nashville, TN 37219

Eligibility Requirements

Eligibility for Examination

To apply for the Uniform CPA Exam in Indiana, you must meet ONE of the post-obit requirements:

  1. Earned 150 semester hours in general pedagogy which must include a graduate degree from a higher or academy that is accredited by an accrediting arrangement recognized by the Board, and completed:
  • at least 24 semester hours in accounting at the undergraduate level or 15 semester hours in bookkeeping at the graduate level or an equivalent combination thereof which must include courses covering the following subjects:
    • financial accounting,
    • auditing,
    • taxation,
    • managerial bookkeeping; and
  • at least 24 semester hours in business organization administration and economics courses, other than accounting courses, at the undergraduate or graduate level, which may include:
    • upwards to half-dozen semester hours of business and tax law courses
    • upward to six semester hours of computer science courses
  1. Earned 150 semester hours in general education which must include a baccalaureate degree from a college or university that is accredited by an accrediting organization recognized by the Board; and completed:
  • at to the lowest degree 24 semester hours in accounting at the undergraduate or graduate level which must include courses covering the following subjects:
    • financial bookkeeping,
    • auditing,
    • taxation,
    • managerial accounting; and
  • at least 24 semester hours in business concern assistants and economics courses, other than bookkeeping courses, which may include:
    • up to half-dozen semester hours of business and taxation law courses
    • upwardly to vi semester hours of computer science courses

All educational transcript(s), Certificates of Enrollment, and/or international evaluation reports are required to be submitted at the time of application to CPA Test Services direct from the bookish institution(s).

NOTE: Y'all volition be required to have a U.S. Social Security Number to be licensed in the state of Indiana.

Transcripts

If you who have completed the educational requirement at the time of application:

  • You must submit an official transcript from each school you attended. Transfer credits are not adequate; you must submit a transcript from each institution.
  • Official transcripts are those that accept been issued by the institution'southward Registrar's Office and include the Registrar's official seal.
  • The caste you have earned must be posted on your official transcript.
  • Transcripts may be submitted electronically provided they are official. Some schools do not offer this service. Contact your Registrar'south part for additional information. If an e-mail address is required for electronic delivery, utilise etranscript@nasba.org. Electronically delivered transcripts must exist submitted straight from the institution(south).
  • Photocopies of transcripts are not official and cannot be accepted.
  • Please Note: If you have non yet applied when you submit your transcripts, your educational activity documents will exist kept on file for i year. After that time, the documents volition be destroyed, and you lot will need to resubmit new education documents when you employ.
  • If you completed courses at a campus located outside the U.Due south. for a school located in the U.S., the official transcript must be issued by the registrar from the U.S. campus. Transcripts issued by the registrar for the campus located outside the U.South. will not be accepted.

If yous are currently enrolled in higher at the time of application, yous must:

  • submit an official transcript from each school yous attended, and a completed Indiana Certificate of Enrollment (COE) form.
  • The COE is show that you are currently enrolled and that all courses and caste requirements will exist completed by the date indicated on the COE.
  • The COE must exist signed by the Dean or Registrar.
  • The official transcript(s) and COE must be received direct from the bookish institution(s).
  • If the required documentation is not received, the application volition be adamant to be incomplete and yous will not exist permitted to have the test and will forfeit the application fee paid.
  • If the awarding is complete, a Detect to Schedule will be issued. You may schedule hereafter examination dates but may not sit for any section of the examination until all education requirements have been completed.
  • It is your responsibleness to ensure the final official transcript (to document satisfactory completion of all courses and/or the caste listed on the COE at the time of application) is received past CPAES no later than 60 days post-obit the engagement you sit for the first section of the examination.
  • If you completed courses at a campus located outside the U.South. for a schoolhouse located in the U.S., the official transcript must be issued by the registrar from the U.Southward. campus. Transcripts issued by the registrar for the campus located exterior the U.S. will not exist accustomed.

If you submit applications prior to completing the education requirements, you are brash:

  • The examination scores will be released, but will be voided, if you lot fail to successfully consummate the course and/or caste requirements and submit the concluding official transcript inside 60 days following the date yous sit for the first section of examination.
  • You will non be permitted to take hereafter examinations until CPA Examination Services receives the concluding official transcript.

If you lot have completed educational requirements at institutions outside the U.South., yous must:

  • have your credentials evaluated by ane of the post-obit services:
    • NASBA International Evaluation Services
    • Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc.
    • Strange Bookish Credentials Service, Inc.
    • Josef Silny & Associates, Inc., International Education Consultants
  • The international evaluation study must be no more than than two years erstwhile.
  • obtain the form to request this service from the evaluation service bureau,
  • submit a translated copy of each international transcript used for the evaluation,
  • require the agency to evaluate every bit follows:
    • An equivalency summary that indicates the coordinating academic degrees in the U.Due south. you hold;
    • A credential assay that specifies:
      • The name of the country;
      • The degree awarded;
      • The year the caste was awarded; and
      • The entity that awarded the degree;
    • A course-past-course listing; and
    • A course credit analysis that includes:
      • Full credits earned toward the caste every bit stated on transcripts submitted;
      • Total accounting credits earned; and
      • Full business credits earned.
  • Completed original evaluations must be received by CPAES directly from the evaluation service at the time of application. Photocopies are not adequate.
  • A copy of the international transcript must be included with the report sent to NASBA for each private evaluation from the evaluation service. The awarding volition exist considered incomplete without these documents and the processing of the application will not move forrad until transcripts are provided.
  • Please Notation: If y'all take not however applied, educational activity documents received volition be kept on file for one yr. After that fourth dimension, these documents volition be destroyed, and you volition need to resubmit new education documents at the time of application.
  • If you lot completed courses at a campus located outside the U.Southward. for a school located in the U.Due south., the official transcript must be issued past the registrar from the U.South. campus. Transcripts issued by the registrar for the campus located exterior the U.S. will non be accepted.
  • Teaching requirements must be met through bookish coursework completed at an accredited institution. Professional preparation is non acceptable toward these requirements. Coursework completed as role of a Chartered Auditor or like program is considered professional person grooming and is, therefore, not accepted toward the education requirements for the U.South. Uniform CPA Examination.

Course Requirements

  • College courses with substantial duplication of content may be counted but one time toward the requirements. This does non apply to internships.
  • Credit earned at a regionally accredited establishment which offers acquaintance degrees is acceptable.
  • Correspondence and online courses are acceptable when you receive credit for the courses at a regionally accredited institution which offers a bachelor's caste or higher. These courses must appear on an official transcript.
  • Commercial CPA Review courses are not acceptable.

Residency

At that place is not a residency requirement for the country of Indiana.

Materials to be Submitted

  1. An official transcript from each school listed on your awarding. Transcripts must exist sent straight from your school to CPA Examination Services.
  2. Certificate of Enrollment, if applicable. Directly from the bookish establishment to CPAES.
  3. International Evaluation Study, if applicable. Directly from the evaluation service to CPAES.
  4. Testing Accommodations Request Form, if applicable. Submission by you lot to CPAES.

Please allow two to 4 weeks from your file completion date (when application, fees and all additional required materials have been received) for your application to be processed. Acquittance of receipt of application volition exist sent to you via email, unless otherwise indicated. This notice is sent simply as acknowledgment of receipt of application.

If yous take previously practical and sat but were currently enrolled in college at the time of application (Document of Enrollment form), you are Not automatically considered a re-test candidate.

Applicants with Disabilities

In accordance with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Human activity, test administration accommodations are available, should you qualify. Please download the Testing Accommodations Request Form for more than data.

Fees

All first-time applicants are required to pay both an application fee and an examination fee upon submission of the showtime-fourth dimension application. All re-examination candidates are required to pay both a registration fee and an test fee at the time of registration.

You lot are able to apply for one or more sections of the examination at a fourth dimension; however, you are advised to only apply for a section of the examination if you are ready to accept it within the next six months.

      Examination Fees

      Auditing and Attestation (AUD) $226.xv
      Business organization Environment and Concepts (BEC) $226.15
      Financial Bookkeeping and Reporting (FAR) $226.xv
      Regulation (REG) $226.xv

        Refund Policy

        There is no provision for withdrawing from the test and/or requesting an extension of your current Notices to Schedule (NTS). Application and/or examination fees are not refundable. If you have an extreme circumstance, yous may asking an NTS extension or a partial refund of your test fees under specific circumstances utilizing the Exception to Policy Form.

        Exam Credit

        You may take the required test sections individually and in any order, simply are required to pass all 4 sections of the examination inside a rolling xviii month period, which begins on the date the first examination section passed was taken.

        Credit for any section passed shall be valid for 18 months from the actual date the exam sections were taken. Examination credit expires past section. You lot will lose credit for each section passed outside the 18 month period, and will have to retake those sections.

        Annotation: To obtain licensure in Indiana, yous must have a U.S. Social Security Number.

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        USEFUL LINKS

        Candidate Bulletin
        Score Information
        Score Reprint
        NASBA Candidate Identification Cards
        Indiana State Board
        Prometric
        AICPA

        FORMS

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        Exception to Policy
        Transferring into Indiana
        Transferring from Indiana
        Information Change Request Form
        Testing Accommodations Asking Form

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        Indiana Coordinator
        CPA Examination Services
        PO Box 198469
        Nashville, Tennessee 37219-8469