Kansas CPA Requirements

Kansas Requirements & Education Options

General Requirement

• Applicant must be of good moral character.
• The applicant must either be a resident of Kansas, have a place of business in Kansas, or be employed in Kansas.

Education Requirement

To sit for the CPA Exam in Kansas, a bachelor’s degree (or higher) from a board-approved institution with 150 semester hours (225 quarter hours) is required.

1. At least 42 semester hours in business and general education, which includes courses in:

• Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and 1 upper-division economics course
• At least 2 courses in Business Law
• College Algebra or higher-level math
• Statistics and probability
• Information Systems and Applications (at least 200-level)
• Finance
• Management and Administration
• Marketing
• Production, Operations Research, or quantitative business applications

2. At least 30 semester hours in accounting, including

• Financial Accounting and Reporting
• Managerial Accounting (above introductory level)
• Auditing based on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA®) or Public Company Accounting Oversight Board standards
• U.S. Income Taxation
• Accounting Systems (above introductory level)

3. 11 semester hours in Written and Oral Communication

Kansas CPA candidates may sit for the exam up to 60 days before meeting the education requirement and must submit final transcripts to the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) within 120 days of taking the 1st section.