IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL CANDIDATES

The South Dakota Board of Accountancy is committed to keeping the CPA Examination costs down to candidates and will pass on only those increases or reductions which are incurred by the Board.

Exam fee reductions are scheduled for candidates

that are issued an NTS after May 21, 2010

Prometric will reduce their seat time by $2.75 per hour. The South Dakota Board will not be increasing the $30 administrative fee currently included in the cost of each section of the Uniform CPA Exam. Therefore, NEW exam section fees are expected to be as follows for any applications received in our office after May 21, 2010:

                        Exam Section

Current

Section Fee

NEW

Section Fee

Audit (4.5hrs)

260.55

248.18

Business Environments & Concepts (2.5hrs)

210.95 204.08

Financial Accounting & Reporting (4hrs)

248.15 237.15

Regulation (3hrs)

223.35 215.10

Total

943.00 904.51