The Becker Intensive CPA Review Course is 112 class hours and involves an additional 100-175 hours of assigned homework. Color Class Hours Study Hall Hrs.
Practical experience can supplement the learning experience.
But if you wanted to pass the CPA exam on experience alone, it might take ten years of diversified experience at all levels of a national accounting firm. The usual situation is that the Becker Intensive classroom learning experience improves the accountant's level of work competence while also preparing him to pass the exam. The college degree is for an accounting major, not a public accounting major. A college trains a student for the general field of accounting because only a fraction of accounting graduates go into public accounting. The CPA exam is different from the college curriculum in that it emphasizes problems confronting the CPA in his practice of public accounting.