CPA Exam Changes

Let us help you prepare for new and ongoing changes to the Uniform CPA Examination.

Updates

• 2018 CPA Exam Score Release Holds
• 2018 CPA Exam Changes: Roger CPA Review Video
• New User-Friendly Software Coming to the CPA Exam
• Don't Get Locked Out: NASBA New Gateway System Launches March 5
• What Current & Future CPAs Need to Know (podcast)
• AICPA, NASBA, and Prometric Announce Successful Launch
• AICPA Board of Directors Member Answers Many of Your Exam Change Questions
• AICPA Reduces Number of Task-Based Simulations 
• Tutorial and Sample Tests
• CPA Exam Candidate Lunch & Learn (recorded webinar)

Pa. State Board of Accountancy is Granting Extensions For Some License Applicants

Due to delayed reporting of CPA exam results during the second and fourth quarters of 2017, candidates who took the exam during the second, third, and fourth quarters of 2017, and had previously passed sections where the credit may be expiring, may request, in writing, an extension for those expiring sections to June 30, 2018 from the PA State Board of Accountancy to either P.O. Box 2649, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2649 or St-Accountancy@pa.gov.

For more details about how to request an extension, please follow guidelines provided here.

Section Content Changes at a Glance

MCQs = Multiple-choice questions
TBSs = Task-based simulations

Other Changes Include...

• BEC & REG sections will now be four hours each. Total testing time will be 16 hours (four hours for each section)
• Fifteen-minute standardized break (does not count against testing time) has been added. Optional breaks still permitted (count against testing time).
• New exam blueprints has replaced the Content Specification Outline (CSO) and Skill Specification Outline (CSO).
• There will be a 10-day extension to testing window each quarter in the months of March, June, September, and December (beginning June 2016).
• Any combination of passing previous exam sections and current exam sections (within 18 month window) will count toward licensure.