How to Become a CPA in Indiana 2025

To meet the Indiana requirements to sit for the CPA exam, the Indiana CPA education requirements must be attained first. For Indiana applicants, you must have earned 120 semester hours in general education that includes accounting and business administration credits.

You need to create an account at https://cpacentral.nasba.org/ and submit all the educational transcript(s), Certificate of Enrolment, and/or foreign evaluations to CPA Examination Services. If you are a first-time applicant, you are required to pay both an education evaluation application fee of $93 and an examination fee of $355.64 per section at the time of application.

Once your application has been approved, you can select the CPA exam you want to take and pay the necessary fees using NASBA’s CPA Central website. Once you receive the Notice to Schedule (NTS), you may visit Prometric to schedule your exam/s.

Click here to see a breakdown of the Indiana CPA exam costs.

The CPA exam consists of the three core sections and candidates would need to select one of the three discipline to demonstrate deeper skills and knowledge, allowing candidates to choose a specialization. There is no set order in which the exam portions must be completed. You must pass each section with a score of 75 or higher within 18 months.

Earn 150 semester hours in general education which must include a graduate degree from an accredited college, at least 24 semester hours in accounting at the undergraduate level, or 15 semester hours in accounting courses at the graduate level or an equivalent combination which must include auditing, financial accounting, managerial accounting, and taxation courses. At least 24 semester hours in business administration at the undergraduate or graduate level (excluding accounting).

To meet the Indiana CPA experience requirements, you need two years of full-time experience in one or more of the following areas: academia, government, or public practice verified by an active CPA.

Once you have met all the requirements, you may apply to get your license through NASBA’s online CPA licensing system.

While most states require ethics before licensing, Indiana candidates can become a CPA without it as there are no Indiana CPA ethics exam requirements. However, part of the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) requirement is to attend 4 hours of ethics every three years.

Indiana requires the licensee to complete 120 hours of acceptable continuing professional education (CPE) every three years and must include no less than 20 hours per calendar year, no less than 12 hours for the reporting period (accounting and/or auditing credits), no less than four hours for the reporting period in ethics and no more than 50$ of the required 120 hours will be accepted as self-study.

You must renew your CPA license every three years, expiring on June 30 of the three-year cycle.