CPA Reqs and Coopersmith/Study.com

[Sunnydaze]

"Credits must be TAKEN at an accredited (or non-U.S. government-recognized), degree-granting, postsecondary institution acceptable to the Department." That means, the courses must be taken at a school, not from anywhere else. If ACE credits were acceptable, it would say something like "credits must be on an accredited postsecondary institution."  So I don't think this is going to work for your purposes.  SDC and Coopersmith come in as courses that have been transferred, and they have a P for Pass or CR for Credit depending on the school. It will be obvious that they were not taken at the school, and then if they ask for the original transcript, you'll get caught.

If you take Coopersmith courses, and use those for the pre-req for the MS program only, then does the MS program provide the needed credits that will be taken at a school?  It doesn't say how many credits are needed.

Also, I would not do a NA program - that makes no sense.  There are VERY few RA schools that will take an NA degree, and either way, there are no NA schools that are cheaper than our cheap RA options here.

Any reason you're doing EU over TESU?

There's 3 paths to eligibility and just completing that particular MS is one path.  The other paths involve getting 120-150 credits and specific accounting credits.  For my situation, I thought that would be the best so I could take advantage of cheaper alternative credit sources. 

As for EU over TESU.  I haven't really looked at TESU, but I can. I chose EU because my credits came from all over the place and EU's Liberal Arts seemed super easy to complete with what I had plus a few easy courses from Sophia. Also, I found out about a low-income grant that I thought I'd be able to get since I lived in NY, but after researching it I found out that I wasn't eligible. At the point, I should have re-evaluated, but I just kept going.