Can someone please review my degree plan?

[twy2024]

Hi There,
First of all, thank you for everyone that contribute to this forum, it is very informative.
I am 38, and have been working in Accounting field for over 10 years, I would like to get a Bachelor degree in Accounting that would qualify me to sit for the CPA exam, and eventually get the extra 30 units to qualify for the CPA license. I originally applied WGU, but they only accept 15 units out of all my RA credits listed below. And I discover UMPI, I found a BABA Accounting degree plan in this forum, so I followed it for my BA Accounting plan: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

Can you please take a look at my plan and see if I created it correctly? Feel free to make any suggestion or comment. Thank you so much!

Your Location: Ohio, United States.
Your Age: 38
What kind of degree do you want?: Accounting (I have been working in Accounting field for over 10 years and would like to get CPA license.)
Current Regional Accredited Credits:

Mission College Total Credits: 41
ACC 1A, Financial Accounting, 4, B
ACC 1B, Managerial Accounting, 4, A
ACC 52, Payroll & Business Tax Accounting, 3, A
ACC 33, Forecasting Financial Statement using Excel, 1.5, A
ACC 34, Business financial Planning using Excel, 1.5, A
ACC 58A, Intermediate Accounting I, 4, A
ACC 58B, Intermediate Accounting II, 4, A
BUS 21, Introduction Business Computing, 3, A
BUS 21L, Introduction Business Computing Lab, 1, A
ENG 1A, English Composition, 3, A
ECN 1A, Principles of Macroeconomics, 4, A
BUS 28A, Business Law I, 3, A
CHI 1, First Semester Chinese, 5, A

Chabot College Total Credits: 8
CAS 54A, Microsoft Excel I, 3, A
CAS 58, Introduction to Microsoft Access, 3, A
BUS 93, QuickBooks, 2, A

Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits:

Sophia Credits: 6
Art History I, 3, 89%
US History I, 3, 93%

[ss20ts]

I wouldn't pay Study for a class to fill the American Government requirement in the GEC. It is a VERY EASY course at UMPI which pretty much everyone completes in under a week. Most people are completing it in just a few days. It's na easy class to get an A in and whose GPA couldn't use an A?

No one has transferred in the same course from your 2 colleges. I checked the transfer database and the colleges are listed but none of your classes are. You may want to apply and send your transcripts to see which of your accounting classes will transfer. This may help you with deciding whether or not to take more accounting courses on Study or if you'll have to complete them at UMPI.

You have ops man under fed tax acct.

[twy2024]

I wouldn't pay Study for a class to fill the American Government requirement in the GEC. It is a VERY EASY course at UMPI which pretty much everyone completes in under a week. Most people are completing it in just a few days. It's na easy class to get an A in and whose GPA couldn't use an A?

No one has transferred in the same course from your 2 colleges. I checked the transfer database and the colleges are listed but none of your classes are. You may want to apply and send your transcripts to see which of your accounting classes will transfer. This may help you with deciding whether or not to take more accounting courses on Study or if you'll have to complete them at UMPI.

You have ops man under fed tax acct.

@ss20ts
Thank you for feedback. I'll definitely mark that class to be completed at UMPI instead.

I also wanted to evaluate my transcript from the 2 colleges, but I thought once I applied, I cannot transfer anymore credits, or if I got it wrong?

[rachel83az]

FWIW, you're not the first person to want to use a UMPI degree to sit the CPA exam. IIRC, you've got two easy/inexpensive options: transferring in more than 90 credits (only 90 of them will apply to your degree, but ALL of them will be reflected on your transcript) or try to hit as close to 90 credits as possible, then add a minor or two at UMPI so that you wind up taking about 60 credits at UMPI - total on transcript 150+.

[ss20ts]

I wouldn't pay Study for a class to fill the American Government requirement in the GEC. It is a VERY EASY course at UMPI which pretty much everyone completes in under a week. Most people are completing it in just a few days. It's na easy class to get an A in and whose GPA couldn't use an A?

No one has transferred in the same course from your 2 colleges. I checked the transfer database and the colleges are listed but none of your classes are. You may want to apply and send your transcripts to see which of your accounting classes will transfer. This may help you with deciding whether or not to take more accounting courses on Study or if you'll have to complete them at UMPI.

You have ops man under fed tax acct.

@ss20ts
Thank you for feedback. I'll definitely mark that class to be completed at UMPI instead.

I also wanted to evaluate my transcript from the 2 colleges, but I thought once I applied, I cannot transfer anymore credits, or if I got it wrong?

Once you're enrolled in courses you need permission from your academic advisor to transfer in additional courses. You have plenty of time to complete more classes as the next session isn't until January.

[twy2024]

I wouldn't pay Study for a class to fill the American Government requirement in the GEC. It is a VERY EASY course at UMPI which pretty much everyone completes in under a week. Most people are completing it in just a few days. It's na easy class to get an A in and whose GPA couldn't use an A?

No one has transferred in the same course from your 2 colleges. I checked the transfer database and the colleges are listed but none of your classes are. You may want to apply and send your transcripts to see which of your accounting classes will transfer. This may help you with deciding whether or not to take more accounting courses on Study or if you'll have to complete them at UMPI.

You have ops man under fed tax acct.

@ss20ts
Thank you for feedback. I'll definitely mark that class to be completed at UMPI instead.

I also wanted to evaluate my transcript from the 2 colleges, but I thought once I applied, I cannot transfer anymore credits, or if I got it wrong?

Once you're enrolled in courses you need permission from your academic advisor to transfer in additional courses. You have plenty of time to complete more classes as the next session isn't until January.

Got cha, I will go ahead and apply and request my transcripts to be evaluated. Thanks!

[bjcheung77]

@yuecherry, one thing to look at is to decide which degree will do for your particular goal. The BA major in Accounting, BABA with concentration in Accounting, or the BLS with an Accounting minor. So, each state is different, the requirements may vary from 18 for the minor, 24 for the concentration, 30 for the major or something along the lines, you want to also see if you can take additional courses that will help you in that CPA/profession, you can add a minor to bump up the credits to 150 to reach your goal.

[twy2024]

@yuecherry, one thing to look at is to decide which degree will do for your particular goal.  The BA major in Accounting, BABA with concentration in Accounting, or the BLS with an Accounting minor.  So, each state is different, the requirements may vary from 18 for the minor, 24 for the concentration, 30 for the major or something along the lines, you want to also see if you can take additional courses that will help you in that CPA/profession, you can add a minor to bump up the credits to 150 to reach your goal.

@bjcheung77

Thanks for the advice! My situation is little bit complicated, I am from California but currently living in Ohio because of family reason. But I might move back to California after few years, not sure when exactly, but California should be the state I would like to get my CPA license at. I plan to sit for the exam in Ohio (24 Business and 24 Accounting courses required), I am pretty sure I am already satisfy with the 24 Accounting courses, not sure if the B.A. Accounting at UMPI would satisfy the Business courses, maybe I should go with the BABA with concentration in Accounting and take 10 units Ethics courses that CA required.) Any prior post that you can refer me to look at for more information regarding this? Thanks again for your reply.

[rachel83az]

Are you sure it's 24 courses and not 24 credits?? Because most Bachelor's degrees are only 40 classes TOTAL, so needing 48 classes like that sounds fairly ridiculous. Even adding a Master's degree, that's usually only an extra 10-15 classes.

[twy2024]

Are you sure it's 24 courses and not 24 credits?? Because most Bachelor's degrees are only 40 classes TOTAL, so needing 48 classes like that sounds fairly ridiculous. Even adding a Master's degree, that's usually only an extra 10-15 classes.

@rachel83az

Sorry for the typo. You are correct, it's 24 semester college credits (Not courses)