Cheapest Degree in Accounting or Business to qualify for CPA exam?

[nykorn]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you need to get a master's degree. Just need to have a combination of credits that includes at least 15 postgraduate credits. You could take five postgraduate courses without completing a degree, and have the rest be undergraduate.

WA state requires more than 15 postgraduate credits in Accounting. It requires 36 credit hours of Accounting and 36 credit hours of Business subjects = 72 total credit hours in specific subjects. 15 of those 72 must be at the upper/graduate level in Accounting. I do not have a Bachelor's in Accounting/Business (unless ENEB counts as anything, which is iffy as no one's tested it) so I'd be starting from scratch for all those credits. I think if I'm gotta take 72 credits, might as well go for a Master as that will put me into a better position on my CV. 

If I wanted to get a Bachelor's, my gen eds from my Associates are almost 20 years old and a lot of schools won't accept them as transfer credits anymore. My Bachelor's was European and so it had no gen eds. 

I also can take the CPA exam in a state with less requirements for the exam itself (such as Alaska). 
Send those exam scores to another state with lower requirements than WA regarding getting the CPA license.
Transfer that out of state CPA license I got to WA.
That will take some time figuring out which is the easiest state to apply for the CPA license in after having passed the exam.

However I'm really thinking about the Master's. I know WGU's is about $4,700 if you can finish it in one term. I'm hoping to find some kind of online European school with no required lectures (like what I keep seeing for tech courses) so I don't have to pay tuition though.