CPA Evolution

Three Core Sections. One Discipline. All Six Included.

Since CPA Evolution, every candidate sits the same three Core sections and then picks one Discipline. AccelaStudy® AI Accounting covers all six on the current AICPA blueprints — so choosing a Discipline is a decision you make, not a product you buy.

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$199/mo, cancel anytime · Switch Disciplines free · Launching October 2026

The structure

Core Plus Discipline, in One Sentence

Everyone takes AUD, FAR and REG. Everyone then takes exactly one of BAR, ISC or TCP. Four sections in total, and the licence looks the same at the end whichever Discipline you sat.

The practical consequence: the Discipline choice matters much less than candidates fear, and much more than review courses would like — because a course that sells Disciplines separately makes changing your mind expensive. Here all three are in the subscription, so you can start one, discover you hate it, and move.

Everyone sits these

The Three Core Sections

Built to the current AICPA blueprints, with the topic weighting the blueprint actually specifies rather than the weighting a textbook found convenient.

AUD

Auditing and Attestation

Covered

  • Ethics, independence, and professional responsibilities
  • Risk assessment, planning, and internal control
  • Evidence, procedures, and audit sampling
  • Reports, conclusions, and other attestation engagements

What the simulations feel like

Simulations here look like documentation work — evaluating evidence, drafting conclusions, deciding what a set of findings means for the report.

FAR

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Covered

  • Conceptual framework and the financial statements
  • Recognition, measurement, valuation and disclosure by transaction area
  • Leases, revenue, income taxes, business combinations, and the rest of the hard middle
  • State and local government accounting and reporting

What the simulations feel like

The section where simulations bite hardest: multi-exhibit fact sets, schedules to build, and journal entries that must balance before anything else is right.

REG

Regulation

Covered

  • Federal taxation of individuals
  • Federal taxation of entities — and property transactions
  • Business law, agency, contracts, and debtor–creditor relationships
  • Ethics and professional responsibilities in tax practice

What the simulations feel like

Calculation-heavy simulations with exhibits that contradict each other on purpose, plus the research tasks that reward knowing where the authority lives.

You sit one of these

Pick One Discipline. Change Your Mind Free.

All three are in the subscription. Study two of them if you are undecided; sit whichever one you are strongest in when the time comes.

BAR

Business Analysis and Reporting

  • Financial statement analysis and business analysis
  • Technical accounting and reporting for harder transactions
  • State and local government accounting and reporting

Best fit if you are heading toward financial reporting, FP&A, or audit of complex entities.

ISC

Information Systems and Controls

  • Information systems, IT audit, and general IT controls
  • SOC engagements and system reporting
  • Data management, security, confidentiality and privacy

Best fit if you want IT audit, advisory, or a controls-heavy path — and the least crowded of the three.

TCP

Tax Compliance and Planning

  • Individual tax compliance and planning
  • Entity tax compliance and planning
  • Property transactions, basis, and gain calculations

Best fit if you are going into a tax practice and want your Discipline to be the work you will actually do.

A note on the initials. The BAR Discipline is Business Analysis and Reporting. It has nothing to do with the bar exam — that is AccelaStudy AI Bar, a different product for a different profession. We mention it because the collision catches people out at least once.

In practice

How the Course Handles Four Sections

Four exams across a rolling window is a project-management problem as much as a study problem. Most of what follows exists to make that part less punishing.

Full four-hour section simulations

The complete section at full length, matching the real exam’s structure, timing, and scoring weights. Doing one before test day is the difference between knowing the material and knowing you can hold it for four hours.

Knowledge that crosses sections

What you prove in FAR carries into BAR — Business Analysis and Reporting shares a great deal of its technical ground with the Core section you already sat. You do not re-earn it; you start the Discipline with credit.

One plan across all four

Autopilot works to your section dates, not to a generic calendar. Book AUD for March and it plans backwards from March — then rebuilds when busy season eats three weeks, which it will.

A readiness number per section

Pass probability with a confidence band, per section, projected to your booked date. It is the number you want before paying a section fee and burning a slot in your window.

CPA Exam Questions

Are all three Disciplines really included?
Yes. BAR — Business Analysis and Reporting — ISC and TCP are all in the $199/mo subscription, and you can move between them as often as you like. There is no Discipline to purchase separately and no upgrade to unlock one.
Which Discipline is easiest?
The one closest to work you already understand. Chasing a reputation for being easy is how candidates end up sitting an exam full of material they have never touched. If you genuinely have no preference, study two for a fortnight and let the readiness forecast tell you which one you are actually stronger in.
Are you on the current AICPA blueprints?
Yes — content and weighting follow the current blueprints. The AICPA publishes them; when they change, the course changes.
How long do I have to pass all four sections?
Your state board sets the window, and boards have been moving it — many now use a 30-month rolling window rather than the older 18-month one. Check yours, because it is a board rule, not a national one, and it is the single scheduling fact most worth being certain about.
Do you handle NASBA scheduling and applications?
No. Applications, eligibility, Notices to Schedule, and test-centre booking run through your state board, NASBA, and Prometric. We prepare you for the exam; those bodies decide when you sit it.
What about the 150-credit requirement?
Education and experience requirements for licensure are set by your state board, and several states have added alternative pathways in recent years. Sitting for the exam and being licensed are two different thresholds — your board publishes both, and it is worth reading them before you book anything.
Can I study for the CMA at the same time?
Yes, and it is in the same subscription. Plenty of candidates find the overlap makes the second credential considerably cheaper in hours than it looks.

Core and Discipline, One Subscription

All six CPA sections on the current blueprints, plus the CMA, plus unlimited computation-verified simulations. Launching October 2026 at $199/mo.

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