whew! Just finished the flashcards for B2.... moving right along! goodbye economics! (I hope!)
FAR-91 (7/29)
AUD-99 (8/23)
BEC-90 (10/1)
REG-99 (11/3)
AUD-99 (8/23)
BEC-90 (10/1)
REG-99 (11/3)
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LSU_BR
offlineMember@Florida - Saw your post on Allyson's blog. Thanks for the encouragement. I see you are taking BEC. The key to BEC is chapters 3 and 5 and learn as much IT as you can. Becker is weak on IT based on the test I had. Also, I used a Yaeger video to help with variances. Becker has a weird chart in Chapter 5 and if you memorize it you can do all the variance problems. :) I'm pulling for you too!
AUD 95 (3/5/10); BEC 83 (5/28/10); FAR 71, 72, 74, 82 (10/16/10); REG 65,80(11/23/10)
ALL DONE :)Posted 1 year ago # -
studyingismynewhobby
offlineMemberI haven't watched it yet, but I signed up and will watch the free BEC from Rodger. Here's the website I found for it: http://www.rogercpareview.com/cpa-exam-review-course-demo-request.cfm
@ herbert thanks for sharing that this was available. Every little bit helps it seems like.
FAR - 87
AUD - 88
BEC - 88
REG - waitingPosted 1 year ago # -
DivineCPA
offlineMember@Florida, I'm a little late, but I'm going to join you! I'm half way through chapter 1! Will complete the other half tonight, and tackle the questions, then off to B2 tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How long did it take you to go through the book the first time?
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Florida_Candidate
offlineMemberGahhh I'm SO behind on studying! B5 is taking way longer for me to grasp than I feel like it should be. At least I still have a week. I've decided to cancel ALL my plans for next week including classes, lunches, EVERYTHING. It's going to be me, and my Becker software until then. Rawr.
FAR-91 (7/29)
AUD-99 (8/23)
BEC-90 (10/1)
REG-99 (11/3)Posted 1 year ago # -
DivineCPA
offlineMemberFlorida, I'm right behind you... I'm taking BEC on 10/4, so it's me & Becker for the next week as well. Chapter 4 is my date for this Saturday! Sunday & Monday - I will marry Chapter 5, and review chapter 3 again on Tuesday - Then I'll go through the lectures one more time and practice those questions EVERYDAY! Good look - I'm pulling for you!
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MQcpasoon
offlineMemberShelray
My recommendation is the YAEGER CRAM; I used the CRAM from Beckers and I didn't covers as much as Yaeger
I pass the test with YAEGER CRAM for FARGood Luck
AUD-77 (expired 11/10) Feb-11 the unbelievable 74;77 05/27/11
FAR 70-68-75
REG 62-69-79
BEC 67-69-65-71-72-72Posted 1 year ago # -
Florida_Candidate
offlineMember@ Divine - wow you're a player! Dating B4 on the weekend and marrying B5 soon after.... w00t w00t... don't we lead such scandalous lives as CPA-wannabe's :D
And.... I finally finished LEARNING everything today. I now go on to questions, questions, and a million more questions :D. I think I'm weird in the fact that I don't even do ANY multiple choice questions until I feel I have a firm grasp on ALL the material. But... here's to 5 days chock full of multiple choice questions!
We can all do this :)
p.s. I may be flooding this board with posts because it seems my brain kind of melts after 2 hrs of multiple choice so i may have to come post here every 2 hours to keep myself interested :D
FAR-91 (7/29)
AUD-99 (8/23)
BEC-90 (10/1)
REG-99 (11/3)Posted 1 year ago # -
njguy26
offlineMemberI'm taking BEC on Friday and am also spending my next week with Chapters 3 and 5. It seems like 1,2, and 4 are pretty straightforward in the book but I pretty much expect a lot of the test to focus on 3 and 5. Gonna spend the next couple days doing every chapter 3 and 5 question at least 2 times. A little disconcerting seeing well over 100 questions in the supplemental questions area for each chapter, but just gotta take it one at a time. Good luck to everyone studying!
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Florida_Candidate
offlineMembernjguy - we must have the same exam date! w00t w00t! Let's keep each other company in here :D
p.s. I'm up to 6% of the MCQ's now and breaking for dinner.... this is going so SLOW.
And yeah, chapter 3 and 5 are the heavy ones. I've finally memorized ALL the formulas in 3 though and feel somewhat confidence with all the formulas in chapter 5 :) So yay, no more memorization. It's just applying everything now for me :D
FAR-91 (7/29)
AUD-99 (8/23)
BEC-90 (10/1)
REG-99 (11/3)Posted 1 year ago # -
njguy26
offlineMemberFlorida_Candidate: Sounds good to me! I've gone through the video once and have studied each section in the chapter once on its own. For the other sections I did the questions after studying each chapter, but for 3 and 5 I've found it more helpful to really study one section of the chapter then work on the questions. Plus some of the calculations are really long in the Becker HW, I'm hoping real ones on the test are not this involved.
I'm currently working through Chapter 5 questions and they are a handful but at least I feel like I'm learning the processes by doing the calculations by hand.
It is so slow, you're right. I thought BEC wouldn't be too bad after chapters 1 and 2 but 3 and 5 are a whole different animal.
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njguy26
offlineMemberYea chapter 5 is really tiring me out. Some of the practice questions involve almost a full page of calculations that I can't imagine the real test would have too many of these, or at least I hope not haha. Thanks, it's seemed to work well so far but the fact that each chapter is totally separate than the others is worrying me a bit since I'm so focused on one topic I don't wanna forget the others. I'll probably go back and do all of chapter 1, 2 and 4 questions during the week to keep it fresh in my mind. Time for dinner for now, I need a break!
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Florida_Candidate
offlineMemberYou know what I found really fun for chapter 5? And I'm not being sarcastic here... it REALLY helped me get down variances....
my friends and I (and keep in mind that we are all accounting nerds) got a couple bottles of wine and came up with the most obnoxious/R-Rated examples of "businesses" that fit the different variances and then we came up with examples for those businesses... for example... a drugdealing business for direct material variances and labor variances and used a brothel as our manufacturing overhead variance example ;) It was pretty darn funny. Keep in mind we were all incredibly drunk so it may not be as funny to a sober person :D
I totally get variances now :D
FAR-91 (7/29)
AUD-99 (8/23)
BEC-90 (10/1)
REG-99 (11/3)Posted 1 year ago # -
njguy26
offlineMemberGood job with B1! I got in the 80s too on B1, 2, and 4 the first time through so I feel good about those, but 3 and 5 I've been in the low 60's to upper 70's. However after doing them again I'm starting to see where I made mistakes so I feel a little better about some sections, but a few others are killing me. I think I'm gonna review all the questions from 1, 2 and 4 I got wrong the first time around and spend tomorrow really learning (or attempting to) the rest of chapter 5.
Sounds pretty funny with the variances, I'd say if it works for you then keep using it! I've come up with so many phrases, abbreviations, mnemonics, etc. that I couldn't even begin to explain to anyone haha. But they've helped me remember some of the more random points so I'm sticking with them.
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Florida_Candidate
offlineMemberHehe you can get chapter 5, just go to bed and look at it with fresh eyes tomorrow. I think that's one chapter that if you keep re-reading it it just gets more confusing. Put it away for a while and re-read it at another time and all of a sudden it makes more sense :)
I've just finished the MCQ's on the first two "topics" in B2 and I'm going to bed :) 11pm is my "brain-shut-off-time". I'll be up nice and early though to kick it tomorrow :D
See ya in the morning!
FAR-91 (7/29)
AUD-99 (8/23)
BEC-90 (10/1)
REG-99 (11/3)Posted 1 year ago # -
2010Please
offlineMemberFlorida_Candidate...did you use Becker, and Becker alone, for your 91 in FAR?
This is my third exam (passed AUD and REG in July/August window) and first post...was a latecomer to another71.com. I plan to take BEC on 10/4 and FAR on 11/29.
I'm like the rest of you here...getting Chapter 5 and 3 to stick seems to be the toughest part...especially variances. Plus, my cost accountant teacher was new and pretty ineffective, so I feel that I'm sort of learning from scratch at this point...hope it soaks in soon. :)
AUD 92, REG 85, BEC 90, FAR 85
Ethics 100
Obtained License 7/11/11 :)Posted 1 year ago # -
njguy26
offlineMember2010 Please: Yea the variances are pretty tricky, but I've actually found the PURE DADS pass key pretty helpful if you're using the Becker book. I basically read that box like 10 times and it seemed to make a little more sense each time. It's all about finding what works for you. My cost accounting teacher was pretty bad too so you're not alone in feeling like you're learning it from scratch. Glad someone else shares my misery.
I'm heading to bed too after a while too much studying becomes ineffective.
Until tomorrow!
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