Eligibility & all-in cost checker
Quick answer
Do I already qualify for a bookkeeping credential, and what will it really cost?
Pick a target credential and your current experience, education, and any credentials you already hold. This tool reads the answer straight from each body's own published eligibility rule and itemizes the dated first-year and three-year all-in cost, not just the headline exam fee. It runs in your browser; nothing you select leaves your device.
How the read is built
Eligibility is read directly from the target credential's own published
rule (see cred-matrix.json's eligibility field,
every cell dated and sourced on the comparison
page). AIPB's Certified Bookkeeper (CB) designation gates on roughly
2 years' full-time experience or 3,000 hours part-time/freelance, within 3
years of passing the exam; your experience band is matched against that
threshold. NACPB's Certified Public Bookkeeper (CPB) license and Intuit
Academy Bookkeeping both have open enrollment: neither sets an independent
minimum prior experience or education requirement, so both read as
"qualifies" regardless of your experience band, though NACPB's license
still requires completing its full year-long program, supervised
experience included. Cost is the itemized exam or program fee, membership
(if any), and recertification, then the first-year and three-year all-in
totals AIPB and NACPB each publish or that this site computes from their
own published line items.
What the tool never does
- It never guesses a fee, a threshold, or a passing rule; a credential whose own page does not confirm one ships disabled.
- It stores nothing about you: your selections never leave your device.
- It reports only anonymous, aggregate, bucketed statistics (see privacy).