§ 5052 Bookkeeping Services Exemption

• •This law says that people who do bookkeeping (like keeping track of money, making reports, or checking numbers) don’t need to follow the rules in this chapter, as long as they don’t pretend to be a certified public accountant (CPA) or public accountant when they give out their work.
• •If someone was already a public accountant before December 31, 1955, and followed the old rules, this law doesn’t take away their rights or change what they can do.
• •You can do bookkeeping jobs for others without being a CPA, but you can’t sign off on reports like a CPA would.

A small business hires someone to keep track of their money, make monthly reports, and check if the numbers add up correctly.

This person can do all that work without being a CPA, as long as they don’t sign the reports like a CPA would. If they pretend to be a CPA, they’d be breaking the rules.