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Board staff reports rising CPA exam pass rates, CPE audit progress and 4-year sunset recommendation
Summary
Director Jennifer Binkley reported that Tennessee candidates’ CPA exam testing volume and pass rates rose through Q2 2025, the board completed most of a 583-license CPE audit (90.1% compliance for processed audits), and a legislative subcommittee recommended a four-year extension at a public sunset hearing.
Jennifer (Jen) Binkley, director for the Tennessee State Board of Accountancy, told the board on Oct. 21 that Tennessee’s CPA exam testing volume and pass rates have increased through the second quarter of 2025 and that a recent public sunset hearing resulted in a legislative recommendation to extend the board’s statutory authorization for four years.
Binkley said board staff prepared a questionnaire for the comptroller’s office and appeared before the commerce, labor, transportation and agriculture joint subcommittee of the government operations committee for the public sunset hearing on Oct. 14. “Chairman Gilbert, myself, assistant commissioner Reid Witcher, board counsel Leelotte, and legislative director Candace Dawkins attended the hearing where the committee recommended a 4 year extension for…
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