呵呵，以下乃本人模仿國外財經媒體的筆法寫出來的一則“新聞”，但事情是真的。
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the regulation body of public accounting professionals in the United States, has decided to set up 4 exam centers in Japan, according to a meeting attendant familiar with the matter.
AICPA finalized the decision after meetings with National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) and Prometric in July. NASBA is the union of 55 state boards authorized to regulate the accountancy profession in the country, responsible for AICPA candidates' registration and approval. Prometric, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Educational Test Service (ETS), provides testing databases and systems for the uniform AICPA exam.
Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama are chosen for the overseas testing offer, whose Prometric testing centers there will be open for candidates with Japanese nationality, and foreigners with 1+ year residential visa in Japan. Candidates with travelling visas are not permitted to sit for the exam in the centers. They still need to apply for US non-immigrant visas to states or overseas territories with testing centers.
Also, qualified candidates can sit for the exam only in the second month of each window in Japan, being February, May, August and November. The earliest possible start month is estimated to be May 2011.
To "maintain the integrity of the US CPA License Abroad", AICPA held regular meetings with NASBA, proposing to build two International Candidate Databases following the overseas offer. The databases will maintain profiles of both licensed and non-licensed international candidates. It is candidates' legal commitment to get licensed within three years after passing all AICPA subjects (FAR/AUD/REG/BEC).
This offer is regarded as another AICPA's internaionalizaion move. Earlier this year, it announced to revise its examination strategy, adding IFRS-related components to the exam.
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