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BOARD OF

TRUSTEES

[June 22

Applications for the Certificate of Certified Public Accountant and the necessary forms on which to submit proof of qualifications will be sent on request. The applicant is asked to identify by paragraph number the section of the law under which he wishes to apply for the certificate.

PRELIMINARY EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

21. T h e Act requires that applicants for the C.P.A. by written examination under Section 2 of the Act must show graduation from a high school or secondary school approved by the University or the completion of an equivalent course of study acceptable to the University. As evidence of such education the Committee will accept: (a) A certificate of graduation from a four-year accredited high school in Illinois, or a certificate of graduation from a four-year high school in another state whose graduates are admitted to the University of Illinois by certificate. (b) Credentials from principals or superintendents of four-year accredited high schools or accredited secondary schools showing the completion of fifteen units of high school work. (c) A certificate of admission without condition to any college that is accredited by the University or by one of the regional accrediting agencies. ( d ) A certificate of graduation from any state normal school in the United States. (e) A certificate showing that the applicant has passed examinations on the subject matter of a four-year high school course under the supervision and direction of educational bodies whose certificate would be accepted for admission to the University of Illinois. ( f ) T h e passing of examinations set for admission to the accountancy examination by the University itself. 22. T h e Registrar of the University is authorized to conduct four sets of examinations in high school subjects per year in Chicago (in March, June, August, and December) to which applicants for the C.P.A. examination may be admitted upon the payment of a fee of $1.50 for each examination giving one unit 1 of credit, or $.75 for each examination giving one-half unit of credit.

EXAMINATIONS

23. Examinations as prescribed in Section 2 of the Act shall be held by the Board of Examiners at the times and places determined by the University Committee in charge. The time and place of holding the C.P.A. examinations shall be advertised, according to law, for not less than three consecutive days in one daily paper published in each of the places where the examinations are to be held, not less than thirty days prior to the date of each examination. 24. T h e examination shall take place as often as may be deemed necessary in the judgment of the University Committee, but not less frequently than once each year. T h e annual examination shall be held in May. 25. The examinations shall be in accounting theory and practice, auditing, commercial law, and such other subjects, if any, as the University may deem advisable. 26. Each applicant for examination must present to the Board of Examiners, before the examination begins, a card of admission to the examination, issued by the University Committee on Accountancy. These cards shall be returned by the Board of Examiners to the chairman of the University Committee. 27. T h e period allotted to the examination in each subject shall be determined beforehand by the University Committee, on the advice of the Board of Examiners, and shall be printed on the examination papers. 28. Examinations shall be written on paper supplied by the University. 29. T h e examination papers shall be marked in plain figures, on the scale of 100, by the Board of Examiners, and together with the certified statement of the Board of Examiners of the grades of each candidate in each subject in which he is examined, shall be forwarded to the chairman of the University

^ y the word "unit" is meant the amount of ground ordinarily covered in any single subject in one year of work in a standard high school.