Experience Certification Form

Illustrative Example

John W. Smith, a student with an accounting major, commenced employment on September 1, 2006. It is now April 14, 2009 and John has accumulated the following chargeable time:

		Hours
Attestation		1675
Review hours (included in attestation above)	775
Tax		210
Other chargeable hours		1650
Total chargeable hours		3535

How to get started
We have found it easier to track experience in terms of weeks rather than months. The required experience term is 30 months, which equates to 129 weeks (30 x 4.3). Most students with accounting majors will require 137.4 weeks to complete their total experience requirement. This is determined by taking the required 129 weeks and adding 8.4 weeks, the standard study time required to complete the professional courses and the UFE (see below).

Before the Experience Certification Form can be completed, John must determine his completion date. In our example his completion date is as follows:

Total weeks required	137.4
The standard 30 month requirement would take him to February 18, 2005	(129)
Additional weeks required	8.4
This additional 8.4 weeks takes John to April 14, 2009 which becomes the date he will satisfy his experience requirement.

Completing the form
Once the completion date has arrived, the form can be completed. You should note when recording chargeable hours, that the review column is merely a memo column. Review hours are already included as part of the attestation hours. Be careful not to add review hours into the total again.

Students should ensure all necessary information is included on the Experience Certification Form. Delays in processing can be avoided with careful attention to detail at this stage.

Standard study time
We provide the following standard study times for the professional courses as well as preparation for the UFE.

	Impact on Experience Period # of weeks
Summer
FPP	1.6
Internet Based
Module 2 Module 3 Module 4	.4 .4 .4
UFE study leave (if applicable)	5.0
UFE	.6
Total	8.4

If the student receives extra study time for correspondence courses and/or preparation of pre-session study for summer courses, it should be added back as well.

Many students save vacation (usually 3 weeks) towards UFE study. This will allow them to show 2.6 weeks as a deduction on this line instead of 5.3 weeks. However, they must put a note under this line stating "saved 3 weeks vacation towards UFE study."

See the sample form