Notice of Variances and Waivers

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
Board of Accountancy
RULE NO.: RULE TITLE:
61H1-27.0041: One Year of Work Experience
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on September 08, 2011, the Board of Accountancy, received a petition for Jeffrey Taylor, seeking a variance or waiver of paragraphs 61H1-27.0041(1)(b) and (c), Florida Administrative Code. Paragraph (1)(b) of the rule, lists the requirements for work experience supervision as the subjection of the applicant, during employment, to oversight, guidance and evaluation by a supervisor who had the right to control and direct the applicant as to the result to be accomplished by the work and also as to the means by which the result was to be accomplished. Paragraph (1)(c) of the rule, lists the requirements for work experience supervisor as a licensed certified public accountant in good standing with any regulating body or a chartered accountant recognized by the International Qualifications Appraisal Board (IQAB). Petitioner is also seeking a variance of waiver of subsection 61H1-27.0041(2), F.A.C., which requires that one year of work experience shall be held and understood to mean the rendition of services such as are customarily performed by full-time, regularly employed staff employees of a certified public accountant during the normal workweek as required by the employing certified public accountant, commencing after the completion of the educational requirements set forth in subsection 61H1-27.002(3), F.A.C.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Veloria Kelly, Division Director, Board of Accountancy, 240 N.W. 76th Dr., Suite A, Gainesville, Florida 32607. Comments on this petition should be filed with the Board of Accountancy within 14 days of publication of this notice.