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Hour Requirements and Current Member Hours

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Submit service hours

Hour Requirements:



BAP Candidates

BAP candidates must complete a minimum of 6 professional hours and 6 service hours during their candidacy semester. For a fall candidacy semester, the inducted member must complete 6 additional professional hours and 6 additional service hours in the spring.

 

Participation in the Tax Assistance Program (TAP) accounts for 20 service hours and is sufficient to cover service requirements for both semesters.

 

Inducted BAP Members

Inducted BAP members must complete a minimum of 12 professional hours (6 during the fall semester and 6 during the spring semester of their senior year) and 12 service hours (6 during the fall semester and 6 during the spring semester of their senior year). A total of 32 hours is needed for the year.

 

 

Current Member Hours:

Professional Hours Report

Service Hours Report

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): 

 

Q1 - How do I report my professional hours?



Answer: Your BAP professional hours are reported when you fill out the "Professional Hours Form." You can then check your hours in real time on the BAPSI website. For each professional BAP event you attend, you will receive a minimum of 1 professional hour, but you may receive more if the event lasts longer than 1 hour. Please be advised that your hours will not be official until you have paid your dues.



 

Q2 - How do I report my service hours?



Answer: Your BAP service hours are reported when you fill out the "Service Hours Form." You can then check your hours in real time on the BAPSI website. Please be advised that your hours will not be official until you have paid your dues.

 

Q3 - How do I check how many hours I have?



Answer: In previous years, the BAP website contained a link to an Excel spreadsheet that contained all professional and service hours that had been reported. However, the current BAP officers have decided to move away from this rather cumbersome process and implement a real-time, highly-accessible reporting system. The two tables above now display members' hours and are updated instantaneously - so members can check their hours anywhere and at any time.



 

Q4 - Can I receive BAP professional or service hours when I am involved in professional or service activities that are not sponsored by BAP?

 

Answer: Perhaps. "BAP hours" are earned during BAP events (i.e., events organized and sponsored by our BAP chapter). Other professional or service activities that you participate in on your own may qualify as "non-BAP" hours. Your non-BAP professional and service hours can be reported as "Other" through the Google form, or by contacting our reporting secretary, Monica Allgaier, at Monica.J.Allgaier.1@nd.edu. 

 

Q5 - How many hours do I need (professional and service) by the end of the year to be a member of Beta Alpha Psi?

 

Answer: 

***12 professional and 12 service hours by the end of the year, 32 hours in total***

 

In order to be inducted into Beta Alpha Psi, the following requirements must be met:

  1. Declared major = Accountancy

  2. Cumulative academic GPA = 3.25

  3. Accountancy GPA = 3.25* (upper division courses; does not include ACCT 20100 or ACCT 20200)

  4. Minimum professional hours = 6 hours earned during your Candidate semester

  5. Minimum service hours = 6 hours earned during your Candidate* semester

  6. Dues paid of $100; one-time dues only; ($65 goes toward your national dues).  

 

*If you will be participating in the Taxpayer Assistance Program (TAP), your service requirement during your Candidate semester is waived.  You will meet your service requirement through your TAP participation in the spring. You will receive 20 service hours AND 6 professional hours for participating in TAP. 

 

*Students studying abroad during the spring semester are considered inactive members during that semester.

 

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