{"id":216,"date":"2009-02-11T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2009-02-13T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T01:54:57","slug":"17-studying-for-the-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"#17 Studying for the Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/olinto_cpa.jpg\" alt=\"olinto_cpa\" width=\"206\" height=\"275\" \/>Studying for the <a title=\"CPA\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Certified_Public_Accountant\" target=\"_self\">CPA<\/a> exam is an important step in any young accountant&#8217;s life. It demonstrates strength of will to put up with and study excessively dull accounting concepts. It shows that they are ready to accept the title of CPA and manage the painful, dream-shattering experience that is everyday at work.<\/p>\n<p>The exam has four key exams and other requirements vary state by state. <a title=\"CPA exam sections\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uniform_Certified_Public_Accountant_Examination#Sections_and_topics_covered\" target=\"_self\">BEC, FAR, REG, and AUD<\/a> are the four key sections to pass.<\/p>\n<p>There exist countless study programs and materials for candidates. One program, Becker CPA, often subjects its students to awkward innuendo, including pink dresses and steroids. Maybe they figured exam candidates would better retain material questioning the instructor&#8217;s personal taste rather than what <a title=\"audit risk\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Audit_risk\" target=\"_self\">DR * CR * IR equals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you were to talk to recent (1-3 years) college graduates who work in public accounting, the odds are 95% in your favor that they are currently studying for the CPA exam. You can use to this your advantage by asking them what course they are using, which section they are studying for, and how they think they did on the last test.<\/p>\n<p>The answers for questions #1 &amp; #2 vary, but you can be assured that the #3 is a resounding, epic <a title=\"fail\" href=\"http:\/\/failblog.org\/\" target=\"_self\">fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Full disclosure: this author used Becker but is not endorsing any of the available courses to candidates.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studying for the CPA exam is an important step in any young accountant&#8217;s life. It demonstrates strength of will to put up with and study excessively dull accounting concepts. It shows that they are ready to accept the title of CPA and manage the painful, dream-shattering experience that is everyday at work. The exam has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[58,60,62,64,59,61,63,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}