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

[nykorn]

I spent a few hours today trying to find free European degrees.

1) Every European country I looked at required a Bachelor's (worth 180 ECTS) in Accounting/Finance etc to qualify for a Master's, so I would have to go for a European 3-year Bachelor's including final thesis.

2) Even if I did qualify for a Master's, every European Master's I found was two years long (I didn't find the one-year Magister degree option).

3) I speak Scandinavian and English but could find no flexible schedule degree in any of those languages. My current timezone absolutely does not work out with Europe (their normal class hours is like 2am my time, I've already tried and failed several times to take free European college courses from here). University of Hagen (FernUniversität) was the only free school I could find that clearly claims they have a "flexible" schedule as opposed to required attendance for lectures with set times. However they only offer courses taught in German and there is no way around knowing fluent German as several courses end in a 2-hour long exam.
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wirtschafts...ndex.shtml

So it seems my final option will have to be a US school. And frankly, even if I have to pay around $5,000, it is probably worth it to save 2 years of time and not have to do another final thesis.