The American Institute of CPAs is seeking feedback on content in the new Core and Disciplines CPA Examination structure. This represents the next step in in the CPA Examination Practice Analysis to determine knowledge and skills newly licensed CPAS need.
Feedback is sought on preliminary content through September 7 via an online survey and is expected to help guide development of the new CPA Exam blueprints and Exam design, which will available via an Exposure Draft, planned for July 2022. The exam is expected to launch in January 2024.
The endeavor is being conducted under CPA Evolution, a joint initiative by the AICPA and the National Association of State Boards of Accounting. Under that model, candidates must take three Core sections that will assess the knowledge and skills that are needed in Accounting, Auditing & Attestation, and Taxation incorporating the following disciplines: Business Analysis and Reporting, Information Systems and Control and Tax Compliance and Planning.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind