[Anonymous]

What two chapters would you consider the hardest? Due to holiday travel, I have an extended study period and can devote two weeks study time per chapter to 2 of the 6 Becker chapters. Obviously I’d like to do it for the harder chapters. I realize that level of difficulty is very subjective. FWIW, my professional background is internal controls, COSO, ERM, and compliance, so I am not too worried about those areas.

So if you were me, what chapters would you spend your time on?

[pretendadult]

I took it a while ago, so I'm not sure what chapter it corresponds to, but I would say the manufacturing process/inventory valuation and variances.
On my test, those were tested quite a bit.

[shell_game]

I'd for sure say chapter 2 & 3 are the hardest.

Chapter 1 is Coso/ERM is straightforward but was heavily tested for me. During the 10 minutes you get to sign-on to the exam, I wrote out the mnemonics, CRIME, EBOCA(HR) ISEARAIM and referred to the list several times throughout the exam.

For Chapter 4, I'd just make sure you are familiar with the terminology as most of the questions were on definitions. I thought Chapter 5 was mostly common sense on econimcs and I prob only saw a few questions from Chapter 6. Good luck

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[Anonymous]

2 (for most)

[rosecpa]

It really depends on which subjects you remember most from college. I personally remembered the cost accounting section very well, so I focused more on chapters 4 and 6.

[lswang]

I hate IT- I think it's like a foreign language and I know literally nothing about it. I don't remember what chapter IT is though.

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[sar_rah]

3 is dense, and for 2 variances suck.

4 inst ‘hard' i just didnt know anything about IT so had to memorize and re-read that chapter a bunch of times before it stuck. COSO in b1 can also be tricky. nail coso!

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DONE DONE DONE and DONE all on the first try! It IS possible, just keep on studying!

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