24 accounting unit requirement

Regarding #1: most likely yes; they may count it as accounting credits.

Regarding #2: definitely no; similar classes taken at the same level but at different universities/colleges count only once.

What you could take is: financial accounting, managerial accounting, intermediate accounting 1&2, auditing, taxation, accounting systems, and anything additional if needed.

I suggest you call the CBA to confirm first (I'm assuming you're from California?). I wish I did before I applied. I had exactly 24 units of accounting but one of the courses didn't have “accounting” in the title so they didn't count it. During application you do not get to specify which classes you took but they just look at your transcript and highlight the accounting courses and add it up. They mailed me a copy of it when they notified me I didn't have enough units. I had to get a letter from my professor on a school letterhead, resend my information, and waited ANOTHER month before I got approved. The process took 2 months instead of 1. If I had known, I would have gotten a letter first and sent it with my application the first time. You can send any supplement info along with your application.

To your second question, one of the HR people at a Big 4 said that as long as the course titles aren't the same, you can count it as different classes. Like my accounting courses are listed as “Bus 150” for example. But at another school it is listed as “Acct 153” for the same class.

@Annie123 – I read your response and it caused me to scramble and look up my transcripts.

I took a surplus of accounting courses (at the lower level) but honestly couldn't remember titles.

In your opinion would this class be counted as an accounting class:

Subject Number: ACCT215

Course Title: Internal Control Compliance

(I have had an overload of info the past several days. Just submitted my application for California CPA exams. I seem to recall they wanted the course title to state Accounting somewhere. Other than the obvious subject number of ACCT215, I would hope they can figure out that this was an accounting class. BORING ONE TOO – essentially SOX…)

You just send your transcripts and they look at them and count your credits.

In my experinece, they just look at course numbers and titles. They do not dig deep. If it is AccountingXXX: Financial Valuation, it will count as an accounting credit. If it is FinanceXXX: Financial valuation it probably won't. Silly, huh?

I think it'd be fine for you to send in a description of the course, cut and pasted from the Universities website with the URL cited, and highlight all the “accounting” terms in the course description. Then, they'd prob be more likely to count it. But who knows.

“2. I took a class called “Intermediate Accounting” at a community college and another class called “Intermediate Financial Accounting and Reporting” at a university. To be honest, both classes taught very similar material but would I be able to apply the credits earned from both classes to my 24 accounting unit requirement?”

This, you may be able to get away with if they don't look to closesly (just look at the course numbering). But Intermediate accounting will probably jump out at them and they'd want some proof that they were not the same class (say, one was 1st in the intermediate sequence, and the 2nd was 2nd).