What is the Certified Payroll Professional program?
Anne Arundel Community College and American Payroll Association (APA) offer a unique professional development course to improve the performance and advance the careers of payroll staff, CPAs, employee benefits personnel, and human resource directors and staff. This intensive payroll professional learning series provides comprehensive training in payroll administration.

What courses do I need?

BNS-523 - APA's Payroll Fundamentals
BNS-524 - APA's Payroll Mastery

What are the prerequisites for the Certified Payroll Professional courses?
There are no prerequisites for enrolling in the courses. To be eligible for the Certified Payroll Professional examination, one must have been practicing in the payroll profession a total of three years out of the preceding five years from the date of the examination, with direct involvement in any of the following: 

• payroll production and reporting
• payroll administration
• payroll education/consulting, with previous experience in the production
• or administration of payroll

How do I take the certification examination?
The CPP exam consists of 180 multiple choice questions and 20 pre-test questions. Four hours are allotted to complete the exam. Reservations for the examination can be scheduled by calling the Assessment Systems, Inc. Candidate Care Center at 1-800-470-8757. Reservations can be made up to three months in advance of a test date.

For More Information 
Contact AACC’s Office of Continuing Professional Education at 410-777-2908.