cpafinally
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I found out yesterday morning I passed the last part of my CPA exam. Woot! I quickly thought of a quick way to announce it to my family. I thought a cake might be fun. So I called the local grocery store bakery. My husband used to chant "CPA! CPA! CPA!" when I studied, to encourage me to study hard. So I thought that would be funny to put on the cake.
I instructed, "I want CPA written 3 times, with exclamation points after each one." This is what I got:
LOL
How'd your celebrations go?
atipton
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My co-workers had a party for me with cake, punch, chips, and a veggie tray. They also gave me a basket called a CPA survival kit with different knick-knacks and a little poem to go with it. It had a Play-N-Learn counting toy for when my calculator wears out, a magic wand, a get out of jail free card, rope, etc :) I'm also going on a cruise in a few weeks with my husband and parents and that will be my personal celebration.
atipton
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I used Becker initially. On the third attempts, I switched. For REG and BEC, I bought the Gleim questions that you can download and used the Weily books to supplement. I also used th Yaeger CRAM for BEC. I had memorized all of the questions in Becker, and I was just going through the motions every night rather than truly studying. I was beyond burned out. The new materials really helped with my motivation, and I think they helped give me the extra "ooomph" I needed to pass.
wiggy
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I found out this past Sat that I was finally done with all four . If I would have failed I would've had to pass FAR and AUD by Feb 28 in order not to lose REG. First thing I did was thank the Lord and then hug my wife because for our whole marriage so far I have been taking the exams....she certainly deserves credit as well for encouraging me time after time. Took me 21 times in 4 years but I did it. Looking forward to this summer where it will be the first in 4 years where I can enjoy the whole thing! Hope this can be an inspiration to anyone struggling.
Feb 2006 = FAR 71
April 2006 = AUD 63
May 2006 = REG 61
July 2006 = BEC 42
Oct 2006 = REG 83 (expired)
Nov 2006 = AUD 70
Feb 2007 = AUD 73
May 2007 = AUD 72
May 2007 = BEC 54
Nov 2007 = FAR 73
Feb 2008 = FAR 78 (expired)
April 2008 = BEC 66
April 2008 = AUD 77
July 2008 = BEC 63
Aug 2008 = TAX 75
Nov 2008 = BEC 68
Feb 2009 = BEC 61
May 2009 = BEC 65
Aug 2009 = BEC 72
Oct 2009 = BEC 78
Oct 2009 = FAR 78
PamR_TX
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Thanks for that post wiggy........... I needed that. This will be my 5th time to take BEC 67,71,71,68. I passed my first part FAR on my birthday Feb of 2009 so planning on taking my last part on Feb 4th 2010 and get this finished. It worked last year when I passed my first one. I can then go celebrate my birthday and not feel guilty for not studying.
I bought yeager self study the end of Dec. I was studying Becker the last 2 times.
Hell Froze
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Loved the Cake!
I bought myself an original painting from one of my favorite artists. I wanted to take Jeff's advice about spending an exam fee on a luxury you truely wanted but didn't buy because your money is going towards exam fees and new books.
It is something to appreciate in addition to my CPA license.
Keep at it guys. I started this journey half heartedly in 1995. I finally decided that it was time to take it seriously and started passing in Jan 2007 and finished inl May 2009...Yeager will always be a friend in my book.
I spent two weekends with friends I hadn't seen in months due to the exam. I also got cards from my grandparents and my grandparents-in-laws. Best thing was, they included cash like it was my birthday!
I finally joined a gym since the CPA Exam diet is over...
Schus
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I haven't decided yet, but I really do like the idea of buying something (or doing something) that costs as much as reregistering for an exam. Makes a lot of sense and seems theraputic. If I could take vacation right now I would probably do that too
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