This is the first year I have had to renew through the New and Improved (BS) licenses renewal. They have a downloaded excel spreadsheet. I thought this would be easy I will go to the Cal CPA education tracker and download my CPE . Certainly they will have an Excel download that I can simply upload to the the CBA.

But no that is not the case. I was suppose to enter manually 132 hours into the CBA Excel spreadsheet which does not have enough space to enter the titles so I just expanded the columns. However this was a time consuming process. Then I received errors after I uploaded it. Although the Errors were not mine it appears there was errors in receiving the info so I had to correct and resubmit my data.  Finally if you have an Ethics Course you better know the Approval number for the Regulatory ethic course. I printed my certificate which had a regulatory number but no matter how I entered it, it was not in the approved format.

This is a 2-3 hour process. The video talked about it being improved.  This is certainly A Pre Beta version at best.  When I looked at their summary of hours they had 142 hours even though I only had a 132 and that is without the 2 hour regulatory course. I am certainly not about to search out the inconsistency.