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Written form required: yes

Personal appearance required: no

• Form: Confirmation of the equivalence of examination services according to § 7 Wirtschaftsprüfungsexamens-Anrechnungsverordnung on the website of the Chamber of Auditors

In order to become an auditor, you must take the auditing exam. If you have already completed certain examinations in previous degree programmes, your examination will be shortened by the respective examination area (module).

There are two variants for the recognition of examinations:

• The course of study from which your examination originates has already been recognised by the examination body. Then you only have to submit the proof of achievement.
• The course of study from which your examination performance originates has not yet been recognised by the examination body. Then you must submit a confirmation of equivalence and attach the proof of achievement.

The examination body for the auditing examination determines whether the audit services are equivalent.

• Your university and the degree programme are already recognised for crediting or
• Your examinations correspond to the content, form and scope of the Wirtschaftsprüferprüfungverordnung and
  • the major or specialisation subject you have taken corresponds in the essential contents of one of the following examination areas:
    • Applied Business Administration, Economics and
    • Business Law and
  • You have passed the examination in one of the two subjects and
  • You have completed the examinations in a course of study that began on 17 June 2009 at the latest. If you start your studies after 17 June 2009, you cannot be credited retrospectively.
• You have successfully completed the course of study from which the certificates of achievement originate within the last 8 years.

• Proof of achievement of equivalent examinations in your university education
• If your degree programme has not yet been recognised by the examination office: the application form completed by your university

• Binding information about the examinations required by you (fulfilment or exemption from admission requirements, recognition of examination achievements): EUR 50.00

You submit your application for recognition of examination achievements when you register for the auditor's examination.

• Check on the website of the Chamber of Auditors whether your university and your degree programme are already recognised for recognition

• If your degree programme is already recognised:

  • Attach the transcripts of records to the exam registration forms and documents

• If your degree programme is not yet recognised:

  • Download the form "Confirmation of equivalence of performance records" from the website of the Chamber of Auditors.
  • Enclose transcripts of achievement.
  • Have the form filled out by your university.

• Send all documents in writing or electronically with a qualified signature to the regional office of the Chamber of Auditors responsible for your place of residence.

• The regional office will examine your application.

• Together with the admission to the auditing examination, you will find out which examinations will be credited to you.

Your application for credit recognition must be submitted when you apply for admission to the exam.

Registration deadlines:

• If you want to take the exam in the first half of the year: August 31 of the previous year
• If you want to take the exam in the second half of the year: last day of February (28 or 29 February) of the same year

Validity of certificates of achievement upon crediting:

• Not older than 8 years after completion of the course of study from which the certificates originate. What counts is the time at which you submit the application for admission to the auditing examination.

Auditing Office at the Chamber of Auditors
Rauchstrasse 26
10787 Berlin, Germany

Phone: 030 7261610
fax: 030 726161260
E-mail: pruefungsstelle@wpk.de

To submit applications for admission to the auditing exam, please contact

• to the examination office at the Chamber of Auditors in Berlin or
• to the regional office of the Chamber of Auditors responsible for your place of residence.

Auditing Office at the Chamber of Auditors
Rauchstrasse 26
10787 Berlin, Germany

Phone: 030 7261610
fax: 030 726161260
E-mail: pruefungsstelle@wpk.de

Chamber of Auditors
State Office Baden-Württemberg
Calwer Strasse 11
70173 Stuttgart, Germany

Phone: 0711 2397710
fax: 0711 2397712
E-mail: lgs-stuttgart@wpk.de

Chamber of Auditors
Regional Office Bavaria
Marsstrasse 4
80335 Munich

Phone: 089 54461610
fax: 089 54461612
E-mail: lgs-muenchen@wpk.de

Chamber of Auditors
Regional office Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
Rauchstrasse 26
10787 Berlin, Germany

Phone: 030 726161195
fax: 030 726161199
E-mail: lgs-berlin@wpk.de

Chamber of Auditors
Regional offices Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein
Ferdinandstrasse 12
20095 Hamburg, Germany

Phone: 040 80803430
fax: 040 808034312
E-mail: lgs-hamburg@wpk.de

Chamber of Auditors
State Office Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Thuringia
Sternstrasse 8
60318 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Phone: 069 365062630
fax: 069 365062632
E-mail: lgs-frankfurt@wpk.de

Chamber of Auditors
North Rhine-Westphalia Regional Office
Tersteegenstrasse 14
D-40474 Dusseldorf

Phone: 0211 4561214
fax: 0211 4561193
E-mail: lgs-duesseldorf@wpk.de

• § 13b Wirtschaftsprüferordnung (WPO)
• § 7 Wirtschaftsprüfungsexamens-Anrechnungsverordnung (WPAnrV)
• Wirtschaftsprüferprüfungsverordnung (WiPrPrüfV)
• Wirtschaftsprüfungsexamens-Anrechnungsverordnung (WPAnrV)

• General information about becoming an auditor on the website of the Chamber of Auditors
• List of recognised universities and degree programmes for the recognition of examinations on the website of the Chamber of Auditors
• Information sheet on the auditing exam on the website of the Chamber of Auditors
• Information on the course of the exam on the website of the Chamber of Auditors
• Information sheet on the recognition of examination achievements on the website of the Chamber of Auditors
• Frequently asked questions on the recognition of examinations on the website of the Chamber of Auditors