CPA exam: Forty current Meiji University students pass the exam
Jan. 20, 2025

Group photo of exam passers
On November 15, 2024, the Financial Services Agency’s Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board announced the exam passers for the 2024 CPA exam. The final number of exam passers was 1,603 (1,544 in the previous year), and the pass rate was 7.4% (7.6% in the previous year). The number of exam passers from Meiji University was 58, of which 40 are current students (preliminary figures as of December 4, according to Meiji University Institute for Research and Education in Accounting).
In response to this announcement, the Institute for Research and Education in Accounting held the Award Ceremony for Rewards for Current University Students and the Director’s Encouragement Award to Exam Passers for 51 members who passed the CPA exam and belong to the Special Accounting Laboratory, Institute for Research and Education in Accounting, which is the institute for Certified Public Accountants at Meiji University (of which, there is a total of 39 current university students, including 23 students from the School of Commerce, nine students from the School of Political Science and Economics, five students from the School of Business Administration, and two students from the Graduate School of Professional Accountancy, Professional Graduate School) on December 4 at the Academy Hall of Surugadai Campus.
At the award ceremony, OKURA Manabu, Director of the Institute for Research and Education in Accounting and Professor of the School of Business Administration, offered words of encouragement to the exam passers, and KANEYAMA Yoshito, Chairman of the Meiji University Certified Public Accountants Association , delivered a congratulatory speech.
TSUDA Kouki , a second-year student at the School of Commerce, took the stage as a representative of the exam passers and expressed his gratitude to the staff of the Institute for Research and Education in Accounting, his family members, and friends, and expressed his determination as follows: “Passing the exam is not the goal, but the first step to becoming a trusted certified public accountant. We will continue to make further efforts.”

TSUDA (a second-year student of the School of Commerce) expressing his gratitude as a representative of the exam passers
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