What is the average cpa test taker age

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  • #188541
    mzghafoor92
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    What are everyone’s guesses?

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  • #601938
    Anonymous
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    Don't have to guess. That's a published statistic. It's right around 30.

    #601939
    Anonymous
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    mid/late 20s

    #601940
    Anonymous
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    20s

    #601941
    Anonymous
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    https://nasba.org/files/2014/02/2013-Overall.pdf

    Have to credit @fiona87 for posting this on an earlier thread.

    #601942
    mzghafoor92
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    @Brandenburg wow that chart shows almost 30. Thought itd be much lower

    #601943
    Anonymous
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    I'm 29 and know people much older than I am sitting, so I can see it.

    #601944
    Anonymous
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    You can only have outliers on the upper end. No 5 year olds I'm aware of sitting to bring it back down.

    #601945
    Anonymous
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    @bbrandenburg — I am an outlier even older than that!

    #601946
    Anonymous
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    Yep. Plenty of older people. I'm 34 and am going on 4 years experience.

    I spent my 20's as a bartender at a beach bar and an ocean lifeguard. You have your whole life to sit behind a desk, but only so long to be young.

    I always joke around that “I'll never retire” at work, but the sad part is I made WAAAAY more money back then, even before inflation.

    #601947
    Anonymous
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    Lol, sounds like a band name “The Outliers”. In our case it could be a support group.

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    #601949
    Kimboroni
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    I'm 44, so my guess was an average of 29 before I saw that PDF link. But I saw it several months ago, so it's possible that I remembered it. Although I also took both FAR and REG not too long ago, which I credit for my horrible memory for pretty much anything else these days. 😐

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    #601950
    Anonymous
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    I'm 33 and I just passed the entire exam as of yesterday. Ten years in the Air Force, came home and went to college/grad school, graduated in May, passed exam over summer, first day at the big4 in two weeks.

    #601951
    rzrbkfaith
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    I am 34. I had my family first and went to work in industry right out of college. I wasn't sure I wanted to be a CPA (I was a financial analyst for quite a while) but life changes and so do priorities. Now, I'm working in public and after 12 years of being out of school, I'm trying to knock the exam out.

    AUD - 99
    BEC - 97
    REG - 91
    FAR - 1/8/16

    #601952
    Anonymous
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    29

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