John is a NINJA CPA blogger. Hello NINJAs, As I head into the last four weeks before taking my BEC exam, I’ve really started to hit my NINJA MCQs hard. I’m applying a concept I learned as an analyst and that is the Agile concept. My interpretation is to go through a process of trying new

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John is a NINJA CPA blogger. Hello fellow NINJAS, As I head into the second phase of my study plan to hit MCQs and take more notes, I know this is where the rubber hits the road for me. I picked up the saying, “Don’t be afraid to fail,” from a motivation speech by Arnold

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John is a NINJA CPA blogger. Hello fellow NINJAs, The first month of going through the NINJA CPA materials have helped a lot in preparing for the BEC exam. My challenge has been getting enough sleep. I didn’t think this part through very well when I started the process. I thought I could get by

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John is a NINJA CPA blogger. Hello NINJAs, As I have been studying BEC through reading the book, notes and listening to the audio tapes I have found my strengths and weakness with this exam. It is no wonder that starting with cost accounting has challenged me. On the positive side, IT and corporate governance

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John is a NINJA CPA blogger. As I begin to study for my first exam I thought to myself, “Why am I doing this?” Some of my thoughts have been: to make more money have a retirement account travel pay off my student loans But that was only the beginning. Then I started thinking what

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