Starting in the fourth quarter of 2011 the U.S. CPA Exam will begin releasing scores earlier and more predictably. The change will mark a major shift in the U.S. CPA Exam experience and the strategies that prospective CPAs employ as they work toward passing the exam, according to a publication released by the American Institutes of Certified Public Accountant (AICPA), today (9/28/2011).
I can say that knowing the score release timeline in advance is extremely (yet strategically) important to any CPA candidate who in their CPA exam taking process. The earlier they know, the sooner they can start planning the next steps. This is time and stress saver indeed to have a more predictable CPA exam score release.
Unfortunately that was impossible in the past—there was no way to know when the exam score would be out, exactly. And today, the AICPA has good news for the next CPA.
