Cash for Gnucash development?: Self-study course for CPE?

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 29 August 2003 04:29 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > I usually earn my hours via self-study courses, many of which are for
> > computer applications.  This year, I'm looking at paying over $100.00 to
> > learn Quicken and earn 24 hours of credit.  There's also a course for
> > QuickBooks for the same price.
>
> This is interesting to me because my company (Puget Sound Technology)
> teaches open source classes. We currently planning our fall courses to
> start include office training (in addition to administrator classes we
> already offer for a few years).
>
> We hope to provide gnucash training in our upcoming schedule (but we don't
> have course materials yet).
>
> > If the Gnucash documentation were turned into a tutorial, it could be
> > registered with the CPA Boards of each state (start with Texas, please)
> > for CPE hours.  The Gnucash developers could sell the courses, maintain
> > administrative records to meet CPE course requirements and mail CPE
> > certificates.  This doesn't prevent Gnucash from allowing people to use
> > the tutorials for free; but it allows me to divert a necessary expense to
> > Open Source development in a completely legitimate/legal/ethical way.
>
> This seems like an okay idea.
>
> Can you provide some links or leads on where to get started with getting a
> tutorial registered with CPA Boards of different states?
>
> Can you provide information or examples of current tutorials that gnucash
> tutorials should emulate?
>
> Thank you,
>
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://www.isp-faq.com/

In order to offer courses for CPE's in Texas, vendors must register with the 
State Board of Public Accountancy.  The application and additional 
information are available at:

http://www.tsbpa.state.tx.us/frml0009.htm

Other states probably have a similar process.

Andrew Gould