Transfer Your CPA / Accounting License to Georgia: Reciprocity & Endorsement (2026)

Georgia is one of the boards that does not simply hand a substantially-equivalent CPA its license. The Georgia State Board of Accountancy evaluates you individually — frequently through an experience test counted in years of recent practice — so read its route below before assuming the automatic path applies. What you keep either way: your CPA Exam passage transfers, and your existing license is the basis of the review, not a fresh start.

Georgia grants a reciprocal CPA license to a CPA holding an active license in the state they are reciprocating from, with no fixed partner list, but the Board states the applicant 'must meet the GA Education requirement for licensing in GA even though you are licensed in another State' and documents experience by uploading a resume and previous experience verification — so full_reciprocity is false even though the exam is not retaken. NASBA Licensing Services administers Georgia licensure and processes the Initial Reciprocal Application. Separate from this license transfer, an out-of-state CPA may already PRACTICE in Georgia under practice-privilege/mobility with no Georgia license; the reciprocal license is what is needed when Georgia becomes the principal place of business. Since Jan 1, 2026 Georgia's education requirement can be met with 150 semester hours, a master's in accounting or tax, or a bachelor's degree (30 accounting / 18 business hours) plus two years of experience. No separate state ethics exam and no fingerprint background check are listed on the board's or NASBA's Georgia pages as of 2026-10-29. New reciprocal licensees are exempt from CPE for the remainder of the first calendar year of licensure.