ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – A bill promising to lower the requirements to become a CPA – or certified public accountant – passed into law Wednesday after the governor did not sign the bill.
Rep. Calvin Schrage, NA-Anchorage, sponsored the bill, saying it was a way for Alaska to catch up to a “growing national trend to simplifying some of [these] requirements.”
“[The bill] originated in conversations with some of the business professionals in our community,” Schrage said, “who recognize that there’s a growing national trend to simplifying some of the requirements to become a CPA in the United States, and that this would something that be that would be really beneficial to Alaskans.”…