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Competency-Based Education Gaining Momentum; Supported by Indiana CPA Society
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Jan 19, 2017, 16:00 ET

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Indianapolis, IN (PRWEB) January 19, 2017 -- The movement toward a new learning model for professionals in the state of Indiana continues to gain momentum. Today, draft enabling legislation supported by the Indiana CPA Society, the statewide professional association for CPAs, was introduced in the Indiana General Assembly as HB 1467. It has the potential to add competency-based education to the current hours-based education model for CPA license renewal in Indiana.

This legislation could have a widespread impact throughout the United States, and begin a transformation of the profession's education system that is long overdue for a major overhaul.

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The bill was authored by Rep. Martin Carbaugh (R-Fort Wayne) and co-authored by Rep. Terri Austin (D-Anderson), and was assigned to the Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee chaired by Rep. Heath VanNatter (R-Kokomo).

Its purpose is to give CPAs the ability to take only competency-based education, or a combination of competency-based and hours-based education, to satisfy the educational requirements for CPA license renewal. CPAs in Indiana must complete 120 hours of continuing professional education every three years as part of a system created to maintain professional competency that has remained virtually unchanged for nearly 50 years.

The General Assembly will be considering competency-based options for both professionals and students this session. The draft legislation for CPAs coincides with draft legislation for K-12 education that also calls for competency-based learning.

"We believe that this is the 'next step' toward significant reform of the requirements for CPA license renewal in Indiana," said INCPAS President & CEO Gary Bolinger, CAE. "This draft, if enacted, will provide Indiana CPAs with additional flexibility in learning options to renew their Indiana CPA license. It would give the Indiana Board of Accountancy the opportunity to explore this new learning alternative beyond traditional continuing professional education. Competency-based education has been proven to be a much more effective method of learning."

Competency-based education is a method of education that has checks in place to measure that a certain competency level in the course material is attained. Hours-based education only counts time spent in a classroom with no proof of subject matter learned.

In 2016, the Society was instrumental in expanding the ethics education requirement for CPAs to include a competency-based course or experience serving in an ethics capacity (an hours-based course remains as a third option). That rule change was approved by the Board of Accountancy in July and signed by Gov. Mike Pence in September. Additionally, a pilot program was adopted by the Board of Accountancy in 2014 to allow for up to two competency-based courses to count toward a waiver of up to 16 hours of education. That pilot program remains in effect.

The ethics rule change made Indiana the first state in the nation to allow competency-based education to officially count toward CPA license renewal. Now, this draft legislation is the first of its kind for the CPA profession in any state. It would give the Board of Accountancy the flexibility to set any amount of competency-based education, up to the full equivalent of 120 hours, to meet the professional education requirement. The draft legislation also includes a section that would require the submission and approval of a learning plan prior to participating in competency-based education.

"The Indiana CPA Society is the recognized leader in advocating for competency-based education for CPAs, and other professionals as well," said John Sauder, CPA, CGMA, of Carmel, Ind., INCPAS chairman of the board. "This legislation could have a widespread impact throughout the United States, and begin a transformation of the profession's education system that is long overdue for a major overhaul. Hours-based education simply does not meet the needs of today’s CPAs, and by extension, their clients and employers."

The CPA profession in the United States is regulated on a state-by-state basis, but a major development such as this in any one state has the potential to have a carry-over effect to many other states. Nationally, the American Institute of CPAs' Future of Learning Task Force recommended sweeping change to the professional development model in a report published in 2014. Competency-based education was a major aspect of the recommendations and concepts outlined in the report.

The Indiana CPA Society is poised to help facilitate competency-based learning in Indiana and beyond. The CPA Center of Excellence®, established in 2014 and powered by the Society, already offers online competency-based course modules in six vital business skills as well as a competency-based ethics course. Additional courses on other non-technical and technical topics could be developed over the next several years.

For more information about the CPA Center of Excellence®, contact Jess Halverson Bowyer, strategist - CPA Center of Excellence®, at (317) 726-5027 or [email protected], or go to cpacoe.com. Indiana CPA Society President & CEO Gary Bolinger, CAE and Chairman John Sauder, CPA, CGMA are available for interviews by contacting Dave Shatkowski at (317) 726-5022 or [email protected].

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About the Indiana CPA Society

Nearly 8,100 CPAs in public practice, business and industry, government and education are members of the Indiana CPA Society. INCPAS is the most trusted business resource and advocate in Indiana. Its members are required to abide by the CPA profession's code of conduct. INCPAS members also receive access to quality educational programs and peer networking for knowledge sharing. Society members are trusted advisors to Indiana's business community. INCPAS celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2015. For more information, visit incpas.org.

Elise May, Indiana CPA Society, http://www.incpas.org, +1 (317) 726-5012, [email protected]

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