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CPA Exam Practice Test 2026-2027 and Free Sample Questions

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Format 300 questions / 75 min
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Exam cycle 2026-2027
Passing target 70%

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Question 1 Auditing

Question 1: Auditing

An auditor expresses an opinion that the financial statements are fairly presented except for one material misstatement that is not pervasive. What type of opinion is this?

Question 2 Auditing

Question 2: Auditing

During planning, an auditor sets a lower materiality threshold for transactions with related parties than for routine transactions. This decision most directly reflects the auditor's assessment of:

Question 3 Auditing

Question 3: Auditing

An auditor observes the client's year-end physical inventory count. This procedure provides assurance primarily about which assertion?

Question 4 Financial Accounting and Reporting

Question 4: Financial Accounting and Reporting

A company buys equipment for 50,000 dollars with a 5,000 dollar salvage value and a 5-year useful life. Using straight-line depreciation, what is the annual depreciation expense?

Question 5 Financial Accounting and Reporting

Question 5: Financial Accounting and Reporting

Under accrual accounting, a company performs services in December but does not bill or collect until January. In December the company should recognize:

Question 6 Financial Accounting and Reporting

Question 6: Financial Accounting and Reporting

A company's current assets are 300,000 dollars and current liabilities are 150,000 dollars. What is the current ratio?

Question 7 Regulation and Tax

Question 7: Regulation and Tax

For a single individual taxpayer in the current year, which of the following is generally an above-the-line deduction used to arrive at adjusted gross income?

Question 8 Regulation and Tax

Question 8: Regulation and Tax

A taxpayer sells stock held for 18 months at a gain. For federal income tax purposes, this gain is classified as:

Question 9 Regulation and Tax

Question 9: Regulation and Tax

Which business entity generally provides limited liability to all owners while allowing income to pass through to the owners without an entity-level federal income tax?

Question 10 Business Concepts

Question 10: Business Concepts

A company's weighted average cost of capital is most directly used to:

Question 11 Business Concepts

Question 11: Business Concepts

A company has fixed costs of 120,000 dollars, a selling price of 40 dollars per unit, and variable cost of 25 dollars per unit. How many units must it sell to break even?

Question 12 Auditing

Question 12: Auditing

An auditor sends written requests directly to a client's customers asking them to verify account balances. This procedure is called:

Question 13 Financial Accounting and Reporting

Question 13: Financial Accounting and Reporting

A company receives 12,000 dollars on October 1 for a one-year service contract beginning that date. At December 31, the year-end adjusting entry should recognize revenue of:

Question 14 Financial Accounting and Reporting

Question 14: Financial Accounting and Reporting

Under the allowance method for uncollectible accounts, the entry to record estimated bad debt expense at year-end includes a:

Question 15 Regulation and Tax

Question 15: Regulation and Tax

A CPA preparing a client's tax return discovers an error in a prior-year return the CPA did not prepare. Under professional standards, the CPA should:

Question 16 Business Concepts

Question 16: Business Concepts

An effective internal control environment relies on segregation of duties. Which combination of duties should be assigned to different employees?

Question 17 Auditing

Question 17: Auditing

The component of audit risk that the auditor can directly influence by changing the nature, timing, and extent of substantive procedures is:

Question 18 Financial Accounting and Reporting

Question 18: Financial Accounting and Reporting

Which financial statement reports a company's revenues and expenses over a period of time?

Question 19 Regulation and Tax

Question 19: Regulation and Tax

A parent provides more than half the support of a 19-year-old child who is a full-time student and earns 4,000 dollars from a part-time job. For the parent to claim the child as a qualifying child dependent, a key test satisfied here is the:

Question 20 Business Concepts

Question 20: Business Concepts

A company is evaluating two mutually exclusive projects of equal cost. Project A has a higher net present value than Project B at the required rate of return. Based solely on this information, the company should:

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What this 2026-2027 CPA Exam Practice Test covers

This practice test is designed for students and professionals preparing for CPA Exam who want stronger exam-day confidence, better explanation quality, and more useful answer review than a generic test bank.

Focus areas include CPA Exam practice test, CPA Exam practice questions and CPA Exam free practice test. Focus areas include financial reporting, reconciliation, internal control, audit evidence, along with scenario-based judgment, careful review of why distractors are less correct, and real-world analogies that help the key ideas stick.

Work through up to 50 AICPA-style questions built around financial reporting, reconciliation, and the wording patterns students usually miss on the first read.
Use answer-by-answer rationales to learn why the correct option wins and why weaker distractors fail in Accounting exam situations.
Review 3 real-world analogies, topic article cards, and source checks after each question so internal control and audit evidence feel easier to recognize under pressure.
Build timing, confidence, and recall with scenario-based practice that feels closer to the real CPA Exam than a generic flashcard dump.

Prepare for the CPA Exam with realistic AICPA practice questions, timed review, detailed rationales, and real-world analogies that make harder Accounting concepts easier to remember.

This practice test is designed for students and professionals preparing for CPA Exam who want stronger exam-day confidence, better explanation quality, and more useful answer review than a generic test bank.

Focus areas include financial reporting, reconciliation, internal control, audit evidence, along with scenario-based judgment, careful review of why distractors are less correct, and real-world analogies that help the key ideas stick.

What you will practice on this page

  • Work through up to 50 AICPA-style questions built around financial reporting, reconciliation, and the wording patterns students usually miss on the first read.
  • Use answer-by-answer rationales to learn why the correct option wins and why weaker distractors fail in Accounting exam situations.
  • Review 3 real-world analogies, topic article cards, and source checks after each question so internal control and audit evidence feel easier to recognize under pressure.
  • Build timing, confidence, and recall with scenario-based practice that feels closer to the real CPA Exam than a generic flashcard quiz.

How to use this exam to study smarter

  1. Start with the 20-question free sample to spot whether financial reporting or reconciliation is slowing you down before you buy the full exam.
  2. After each block, review every rationale and the 3 real-world analogies, topic article cards, and source checks so the tested pattern behind internal control becomes easier to remember.
  3. Retake the full CPA Exam practice test in timed mode and focus on cleaner decision-making, not just memorizing the last answer.

Students often land on this page after searching for terms like CPA Exam practice test, CPA Exam practice questions, CPA Exam free practice test, CPA Exam study guide, AICPA CPA Exam practice test, CPA Exam financial reporting questions. That is why the free sample gives you 10 questions first and the full version goes deeper into the tested patterns.

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