A busy week

This was another busy week for me. My baby was still sick and I realized a sick and grumpy toddler takes a big toll on a single mom with a full time job. That and some bad weather made my week less productive than I was hoping for. I am determined to make the next [...]

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Less than 6 weeks

Less than 6 weeks and I will be sitting for FAR! It’s hard for me to believe that I have such a little bit of time left for me to finish my videos, do the CRAM, review the material and do tons of multiple choice questions. The amount of material in this section is getting [...]

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THE CHALLENGE OF THE EXAM

Aside from obvious financial and promotional incentives, my primary interest in taking the CPA exam is as my own personal challenge. I’m slowing giving up on running with the bulls in Pamplona. I’m probably never going to work in dreads or a handlebar mustache at this point, especially in accounting. I accept that my abs [...]

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FAR at a high pace

Before I begin my “rant report of the week”… I just want to give a shout out to Cindy Simpson, as she is “The BEST ACCOUNTING Professor/Instructor I’ve ever had!!” Seriouly!!! 2 years of upper division Accounting courses and NOT ONE PROFESSOR comes close to Cindy in terms of being an “Educator”. Thumbs-UP Cindy and [...]

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It was the section I thought was my weakest

I PASSED AUDIT!!! Audit is the first section of the CPA exam that I took because I felt it would be my weakest area and I found out this past week that I got an 81. I have never did any auditing and did poorly in college. Also, attempted the CPA exam a few years [...]

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Just starting out…

My name is Melissa. I graduated a little over two years ago with my master’s in accounting (graduated about two years before that with my bachelor’s). I was stuck in a job where I didn’t get to use my education. Last year, I suddenly became a single mom and knew I couldn’t make it on [...]

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What Super Bowl? Its all study time…

I heard there was a professional football game on tonight… seems like everyone else in the world is watching the game except me…. But that is okay… I will make it up a year from now by ATTENDING the game next year with my CPA certificate framed in my office, damn it!! **Sigh** What a [...]

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Finally, Good News!

I’m writing a few days early to share the good news – a passing BEC score! I was struggling and feeling a bit frustrated last week as I came out of both BEC and AUD with the same sort of feelings – better than last time, but still not too confident about getting over that [...]

Need Motivation

Due to busy season and everything else going on in my life, I have not been able to study as much as I wanted. My plan is to study 2 hours a day! I start off my week good, but once Wednesday comes around, I just can’t study 2 hours. My motivation is not there [...]

Trying to hit reset

Tuesday ended my 2nd try at passing the Audit section of the CPA exam. It went a lot better than the first time I took it in August. Still, there’s some uncertainty with the pre-test questions and sims. I’ll just have to wait and see on that and I’ve got to put that behind me. [...]