CPA Tutor

About The Job

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online CPA tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.

Why Join Our Platform?

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
• Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform. No commuting required.
• Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
• Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
• We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.
  
  

What We Look For In a CPA Tutor

• Advanced Test Mastery: Deep knowledge of CPA Examination sections including Financial Accounting and Reporting, Auditing and Attestation, Regulation covering tax and business law, and Business Environment and Concepts covering economics, corporate governance, and information technology. Ability to explain GAAP, auditing standards, tax code provisions, and cost accounting while preparing candidates for CPA licensure.
• Strategic Test-Taking & Problem-Solving: Skilled at teaching task-based simulation strategies, multiple-choice question analysis, and time management across CPA exam sections. Guides students through journal entry preparation, audit procedure evaluation, individual and corporate tax calculations, and business valuation problems. Emphasizes understanding the authoritative literature research tasks and applying accounting standards to complex multi-step scenarios.
• Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with CPA examination content blueprints and common challenges such as applying new accounting standards updates, distinguishing audit report modifications, and integrating tax law across individual and business entities. Adapts instruction using Becker, Wiley, or Roger CPA review materials, practice simulations, and diagnostic score analysis to support accounting graduates seeking CPA certification.
• Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.
  
  

Ways To Connect With Students

• 1-on-1 Online Tutoring - Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
• Instant Tutoring - Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.
  
  

About Varsity Tutors And 1-on-1 Online Tutoring

Our mission is to transform the way people learn by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and the latest in learning science to create personalized learning experiences. Through 1-on-1 Online Tutoring, students receive customized instruction that helps them achieve their learning goals. Our platform is designed to match students with the right tutors, fostering better outcomes and a passion for learning.

Please note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia or Puerto Rico.