21 NCAC 08F .0409          SATISFACTION OF EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT BY TEACHING

(a)  Teaching Experience. The requirement of "four years experience teaching accounting," G.S. 93-12(5), means teaching accounting full-time for four years.

(1)           Full-time teaching as described by the rules of the educational institution where the applicant taught will be accepted by the Board to be full-time teaching. However, in no case will less than 12 semester hours, or the equivalent, be accepted by the Board as full-time teaching.

(2)           If the applicant has not taught accounting full-time for four years, credit will be allowed by the Board for teaching accounting less than full-time on a pro rata basis based upon the number of semester hours required for full-time teaching at the educational institution where the applicant taught. However, in no case can an applicant receive credit for a full-time teaching year for teaching done in less than one academic year or more credit than one full-time teaching year for teaching done within one calendar year.

(3)           Courses outside the field of accounting will not be counted toward full-time teaching. Such courses include, but are not limited to: business law, finance, computer applications, personnel management, economics and statistics.

(4)           Of the four years of full-time teaching experience, teaching accounting principles (below intermediate accounting) cannot be counted toward the educational requirement for more than the equivalent of two full-time years. The remaining two full-time teaching years must be taught in at least two different areas of advanced accounting such as auditing, income tax, intermediate financial accounting or advanced managerial accounting, and the applicant must have taught at least nine semester hours, or the equivalent, in at least two of the different areas.

The purpose of this Subparagraph is to render unacceptable as meaningful experience both the continuous teaching of the elementary accounting course and the continuous teaching of the advanced courses in only one area of accounting.

(b)  Required Information. Applicants must submit with their application a letter from each institution where they taught, certified by the applicant's dean or department head at that institution. The letter must state:

(1)           the number of credit hours which the applicant taught each year;

(2)           the names and academic level of the courses taught; and

(3)           the number of hours set by the rules of the institution as full-time teaching for each relevant year.

(c)  Burden of Proof. An applicant having taught in an accredited community college or technical institute has the burden of proving that the credits earned by students taking those courses which the applicant taught would transfer to a four-year accredited college or university.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 93-12(5);

Eff. December 1, 1983;

Amended Eff. January 1, 2006; April 1, 1994; May 1, 1989; January 1, 1988; July 1, 1985;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. October 28, 2014.