What are the registration requirements for intermediate accounting? How to calculate working years?

Although the 2021 Intermediate Accounting Registration Brochure has not been announced yet, some candidates are already prepared for this year’s exam. Regarding the application requirements for Intermediate Accounting, many students do not understand what the accounting working years are. Calculated, the Deep Space Network will explain this clearly to everyone today.

Registration conditions for intermediate accounting in 2021

1. Have a college degree and have been engaged in accounting work for at least 5 years.

2. Have a college degree or bachelor's degree and have been engaged in accounting work for at least 4 years.

3. Possess a second bachelor's degree or graduate from a graduate program, and have been engaged in accounting work for at least 2 years.

4. Have a master's degree and have been engaged in accounting work for at least one year.

5. Have a doctorate degree.

6. Pass the national unified examination and obtain intermediate professional and technical qualifications in economics, statistics, and auditing.

How to calculate the number of working years for intermediate accounting registration?

To facilitate everyone’s understanding, the specific number of years is calculated as follows:

Candidate A: On December 31, 2015 I have recently graduated from a college with a corresponding degree and have been engaged in accounting work for at least 5 years.

Candidate B: Graduated from a university before December 31, 2016, and obtained the corresponding academic qualifications, and must have been engaged in accounting work for 4 years.

Candidate C: Graduated with a double bachelor's degree or a master's degree before December 31, 2018, and obtained the corresponding academic qualifications, and needs to engage in accounting work for 2 years.

Candidate D: Graduate before December 31 of this year and obtain the corresponding academic qualifications, and need to engage in accounting work for one year.

Candidate E: Candidates with a doctoral degree, there is no working experience requirement.

Candidate F: Those who have obtained intermediate professional technical qualifications in economics, statistics, and auditing have no working experience requirements.

Candidate G: After graduating from a full-time college, he worked in accounting for 1 year, and then obtained a bachelor's degree. After graduating from a bachelor's degree, he continued to work in accounting for 2 years, so his time in accounting is 3 years.

Candidate H: Used his spare time to obtain part-time academic qualifications such as self-study examinations, correspondence courses, online education, and adult education. These academic qualifications are nationally recognized academic qualifications, that is, academic qualifications that can be found on the Xuexin website. If you graduate and obtain an academic certificate before registration, the working time before and after obtaining the academic qualification will be included in the working years, and the study time will also be included in the working years. Before applying, you should also carefully read the local application policy and register according to the specific local requirements.

Why do intermediate professional titles have requirements for candidates’ working years?

According to the "Accounting Law", those who serve as the person in charge of the unit’s accounting department (accounting supervisor) should have professional skills of accountant or above Job qualifications or more than three years of accounting work experience. In November this year, the revised "Accounting Law" also changed the requirement that accounting practitioners must possess professional skills to engage in accounting work.

It can be understood that accountants with intermediate professional titles or more than three years of accounting work experience are regarded as having the professional abilities required to serve as accounting supervisors.

We can also see from the information on the recruitment website that the talent market attaches great importance to work experience when recruiting financial and accounting managers.

Therefore, the intermediate professional title examination is an important indicator of working years. Strict control is precisely the strict requirement for accounting managers: they must have more than three years of work experience, or have an intermediate professional title. The intermediate professional title examination itself has put forward higher requirements for candidates' working years.