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Consumer Protection Department board adopts draft CPA regulation revisions defining "accounting concentration" and issues interim guidance

5844637 · September 25, 2025
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The board voted to adopt draft revisions to CPA licensing regulations that define an "accounting concentration," clarify education and experience pathways, and tighten supervising-CPA verification language; staff may use the draft as interim guidance until formal promulgation.

The Consumer Protection Department board voted to adopt draft revisions to its certified public accountant licensing regulations that define an "accounting concentration," clarify education and experience pathways, and revise rules for verifying qualifying experience. The board also approved DCP staff using the draft as interim guidance while the regulations proceed through formal promulgation.

The changes establish an education definition the committee described as a 27-semester-hour accounting concentration (which may include the introductory accounting course) together with 24 semester hours in economics and business administration or equivalent coursework as determined by the board. The draft adds language allowing the board to recognize equivalent coursework for license mobility…

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