Alaska CPA Requirements

Alaska State Requirements & Education Options

General Requirement

Applicant must be of good moral character.
Applicant must be at least 19 years of age.

Education Requirement

Applicant shall show that they have a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent conferred by a college or university acceptable to the Alaska Board of Public Accountancy and additional semester hours or post-baccalaureate study so that the total educational program includes at least 150 hours, with an accounting concentration consisting of not less than:

24 semester hours or 36 quarter hours in subjects such as accounting principles, intermediate accounting, income tax, cost accounting, auditing, advanced accounting, accounting theory, governmental accounting or detection of fraud; and

Nine (9) semester hours or fifteen quarter hours of business law, economics and statistics, computer science, or algebra, calculus, or mathematics.

NOTE: A college or university acceptable to the board is defined as:

The University of Alaska;

A college or university accredited by a regional accrediting association recognized by the University of Alaska; or

A foreign college or university whose degree program has been evaluated and determined equivalent by an approved credential evaluation service recognized by the University of Alaska, or whose degree program has been evaluated and determined equivalent by the NASBA International Evaluation Service (NIES).