South Dakota Accounting Requirements

Applicants must meet the following educational requirement to be deemed eligible to sit for the Uniformed CPA Examination in South Dakota.

The educational requirement is at least one hundred fifty semester hours of college education, including graduation from an accredited college or university with a baccalaureate or graduate degree in accounting or the satisfactory completion of a course of study which the board has determined to be substantially the equivalent of an accounting degree, including related courses in other areas of business administration. Both a major in accounting, or a course of study substantially equivalent to a major in accounting must include 24 semester hours in accounting at the undergraduate or graduate level from an accredited college or university, including elementary principles of accounting and at least one course in each of the following; intermediate or advanced accounting, auditing, taxation and cost accounting. A degree in accounting or a course of study substantially equivalent to a major in accounting, must also include 24 semester hours in business courses, other than accounting courses at the undergraduate or graduate level.

A course may not be audited, but must appear as semester or quarter hour credit on an official transcript.

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