The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 5,468 out of 13,317 passed the Certified Public Accountant Licensure Examination given by the Board of Accountancy in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan De Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi and Lucena this October 2015.
List of CPA Board Exam Oct. 2015 Top Notchers
Top Performing Schools
These are the schools with 50 or more examinees and with at least 80% Passing Percentage.
The news is true. There have been changes to the CPA Board Exam Syllabus and this was proposed by the Board of Accountancy headed by BoA chairman Joel Tan-Torres last June 20, 2015 and presented during the Accountancy Week Celebration on July 2015.
The Revisions 1. Reduction in the number of subjects from seven (7) to six (6) 2. Merging auditing theory and practice into one (1) subject 3. Merging of accounting theory and practice and distributing the pertinent topics in Theory of Accounts, Practical Accounting I, Practical Accounting II to Financial Accounting and Reporting and Advance Accounting 4. Segregating Business Law and Taxation into “Taxation” and “Regulatory Framework for Business Transactions” 5. Renaming Management Services to “Management Accounting and Control”