NASBA relaunches CPA mobility site

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy today relaunched CPAmobility.org to help CPAs determine where and how they can practice across state lines.

The announcement comes as more states (including Ohio, Virginia, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Tennessee) adopt alternative pathways to licensure outside of the previous 150-credit-hour requirement in an effort to address the ongoing CPA talent shortage. The website allows users to search for licensing requirements for different jurisdictions and determine if mobility applies.

“As new pathways to licensure are being adopted across the country, this is creating new requirements in Board rules regarding practice privilege for their licensees,” NASBA director of compliance services Amy Tongate said in a statement. “Mobility is moving from consideration of where a CPA is licensed to how a CPA was licensed — not ‘state-based’ but ‘individual-based.’ The updates to CPAMobility.org make concise practice privilege rules summaries available within a simple search and view.”

The site will be continuously updated by NASBA and factually verified by the state boards of accountancy so users can conduct state-by-state searches. The NASBA legal and accountancy licensing library teams have also researched the summaries to ensure correctness.