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CPA Candidates Given 12 Additional Months to Pass Exam, NASBA Says

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That’s because the board of directors of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) approved an amendment to the Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) Model Rules on April 21 that provides CPA exam-takers a rolling 30-month period to finish the other three sections of the exam, up from 18 months. Bravo NASBA.

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Number of CPA Exam Takers Continues to Dwindle

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Additionally, and this is partly anecdotal, candidate numbers were likely higher than would have been usual from about 2007 to 2009-ish, as the economy circled the drain and accounting was one of the only professions in which one could find a job fairly easily.

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