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CPA or EA
Hi, I am not interested in getting the CPA designation because 1) I don't have the 150 hour accounting course requirement 2) I don't want to apprentice for 2 years for someone I already know more than 3) The vast majority of the public doesn't care. Those that do go elsewhere (builders who need audited financial statements). 4) Your clients care more about your fairness to them and ability to handle their problems. 5) I don't want to do "accounting". To me it is boring and ties you down (can't be gone on payroll days or sales tax days or the 15th because that's when all the questions come up.)
The EA license is nationwide. The CPA must get reciprocity as they are licensed by only 1 state. Why would you need a more limited state license unless you want to do audited financial statements? (most CPAs don't even do the one thing they can do that I can't).
It has never been a problem for me. ALTHOUGH I will admit that the CPAs have the better marketing than EAs as far as name recognition. In California this may not be the case. The California Society of EAs is very strong and visible.
When it comes down to working with the IRS, they respect the EA very well.
I know people who have both designations. They say the only thing the CPA behind their name gets them is profession name recognition.
As far as what to study, you need to go to Thomson Prometric's website, register, and download the list of materials. Once you have self-studied those materials, take a review course like Gleim or NATP. Sometimes the state EA societies put on review courses. Good luck!
As an aside, look at some of the simple questions that CPAs ask here on this board - many don't even know the basics. Others do, but I would be ashamed to have initials behind my name that mean't I still didn't know anything.
Kevinh5 09:41, 25 March 2007 (CST)
