Notice of Variances and Waivers

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
Board of Accountancy
RULE NO.: RULE TITLE:
61H1-27.002: Concentrations in Accounting and Business
61H1-27.0041: One Year of Work Experience
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on February 24, 2012, the Board of Accountancy, received a petition for Jacob Finkelshteyn. This amended petition supersedes the petition filed by petitioner on January 2, 2012, and published in the Florida Administrative Code on February 17, 2012, in Vol. 38, No. 7. Petitioner is seeking a variance or waiver of paragraphs 61H1-27.002(2)(a) and (b), Florida Administrative Code, which requires that an applicant have at least 150 semester hours of college education, including a baccalaureate degree or higher conferred by an accredited college or university with a major in accounting, or its equivalent. The applicant’s total education program shall include a concentration in accounting and business as follows: 36 semester or 54 quarter hours in accounting education at the upper division level which shall include coverage of auditing, cost and managerial accounting, financial accounting, accounting information systems, and taxation; 39 semester or 58 quarter hours in general business education which shall include not less than the equivalent of 6 semester or 8 quarter hours in business law courses which shall include coverage of the uniform commercial code, contracts and torts. Petitioner is seeking a variance or waiver of subsection 61H1-27.0041(2), F.A.C., which requires that one year of work experience shall be held and understood to mean the rendition of services such as are customarily performed by full-time, regularly employed staff employees of a certified public accountant during the normal workweek as required by the employing certified public accountant, commencing after the completion of the educational requirements set forth in subsection 61H1-27.002(3), F.A.C.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Veloria Kelly, Division Director, Board of Accountancy, 240 N.W. 76th Dr., Suite A, Gainesville, Florida 32607. Comments on this petition should be filed with the Board of Accountancy within 14 days of publication of this notice.