Majors for transfer student - PLEASE help

allyphoe
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:34:14 +0000

As long as you have enough accounting hours, you don’t need any particular major to sit for the CPA exam. Nor do you need grad school; the 150-hour requirement can be met entirely with undergrad classes.

IMHO it will be difficult to pass the CPA exam without some number sense. You don’t have to do much in the way of actual calculation, but you do have to understand the relationship behind the numbers. Intermediate Accounting is the “weeder” class at most schools, and uses the most math - and it’s one you can’t really skip. Cost is math-heavy, but it’s not a prereq for anything.