New Zealand skills assessment outcome

Your skills assessment is subject to set periods of validity. Find out how you can appeal or update your assessment outcome and get details on the options available to you.

How long is your application valid for?

Your application with CPA Australia is valid for three years from the date of your initial assessment outcome. Please note that any subsequent updates or appeals will not reset the expiration date of an application.

Your assessment outcome is valid with Immigration New Zealand for three years from the date of outcome.

Update or appeal your assessment

Use your existing CPA Australia account for the services below. See assessment fees.

1. Update your assessment

You can update your assessment if you've completed additional study with other higher education providers and your application is still valid, that is within three years from the date of your initial assessment outcome. If the validity period of your application has expired, you will need to start a new application (using your exiting CPA Australia ID).

2. Appeal your assessment

If you've received a skills assessment from us that you feel is inaccurate, you can appeal the decision. Appeals will use the documents you submitted with your application.

To be considered, an appeal application must be submitted within 12 months from the assessment outcome date stated on the outcome letter.

If you wish to submit new documents for your application, then this will be an update for your application, not an appeal.

External appeal

If you're unsatisfied with the outcome of your appeal, you can contact the Immigration & Protection Tribunal or NZ Ombudsman to see if the assessment outcome qualifies for an independent review.

Begin your skills assessment application

Use this online application to submit a new skills assessment, update or appeal your assessment

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What to do if further studies are required?

If your assessment indicates further studies are required, you have two options:

Complete additional studies via the CPA Program foundation exams
Complete additional studies via accredited courses offered by other higher education providers

CPA Program foundation exams

Depending upon the assessment outcome, you may be required to complete further studies to meet the competency areas. One option is to enrol in CPA Australia foundation exams. Our foundation exams are a flexible, self-paced study program. You can enrol any time and choose when to sit your exam within 12 months of enrolment.

If you would like to complete outstanding competency areas through CPA Program foundation exams, register your interest below.

Have questions? Get in touch via our Contact Us page.

Competency areas and corresponding CPA Program foundation exams

This table outlines the competency requirements and related foundation exams.

Competency requirements	Foundation exams
Economics, Quantitative Methods	Economics and Markets
Accounting Systems and Processes	Foundations of Accounting
Business Law Comprised of Commercial Law and Corporations Law	Fundamentals of Business Law
Finance and Financial Management	Business Finance
Financial Accounting and Reporting Comprised of Financial Accounting and Accounting Theory	Financial Accounting and Reporting
Management Accounting	Management Accounting
Auditing	unavailable
Taxation law	unavailable

New Zealand skills assessment outcome

Content Summary

How long is your application valid for?

Update or appeal your assessment

1. Update your assessment

2. Appeal your assessment

External appeal

Begin your skills assessment application

What to do if further studies are required?

CPA Program foundation exams

Competency areas and corresponding CPA Program foundation exams

Register your interest in foundation exams for skills assessment

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Information for third parties and migration agents

Australia skills assessment outcome

Skilled employment assessment

Documents required for the NZ skills assessment

Apply for a New Zealand skills assessment

Skills assessment NZ FAQs