Hi,
I just found out that I passed BEC. That was my last exam. I cant believe CPA is over.....I started it 9 months ago with zero confidence that I'll pass any paper....and I did it!! I passed all papers in one go! I just felt very very thankful to all the ones I mentioned above, so thought i'd should post a thank you note :-)
Jeff, first of all, I would have never attempted CPA had i not come across Another 71. I got so much insight about what CPA was all about from here....tried to learn from some one else's mistakes...and always got encouraged when I was low...and worked very very hard because for many many reasons, I could not afford to fail. So then, Thank you Jeff, and all of you who make this forum so helpful to the novice, and encouraging and informative to the rest of us.
Jeff, can you please tell Cindy from my side that she's my rockstar?? She is simply awesome!! I never studied accounts with such clear concepts! I attempted FAR first....and was very nervous about it because that's one paper that scares most of us. I realized she works very very hard for all of us....she knows what's important and what's not...and her updates before the exams are very helpful....I just followed her advice ...and of course put in a lot of effort...and I passed FAR. Passing FAR in the first go gave me a lot of confidence to go for other papers....REG gave me a hard time too....Dr. Yeager was very good at explaining REG...I also used Jeff's notes for REG at the last moment....didnt have much time to study for that paper...I dont know how i passed that one!! I had studied Audit before...so wasnt much worried about that....For BEC, I had Cindy again...so I believed I would pass, and I did!
I kind of stumbled into Yeager....I always wanted to study Becker....but could not afford to do so. All the while I was studying with Yeager for FAR, I wished I could afford Becker...and had a hint of doubt towards Yeager (as it was my first paper, i didnt know how i would fare)...well, all those doubts vanished after I knew that I passed FAR....I cant say if Yeager is better than the rest....because I havent used anything else, I cant compare it to other courses...all i can say is Yeager works!! and Cindy rocks!! ;-)
There was another thing I used to motivate myself....so thought I should share it with all of you. I dont have to tell you about the times you wish you had never thought of doing CPA because it seems so impossible, right? For different reasons....sometimes you're tired...sometimes you wish you were having fun....sometimes too lazy to study...etc etc...I had 7 quotations (collected from I dont know where...) written in colorful papers and pasted on the wall above my study desk....these quotations always inspired me to work....just wanted to share them with you.
- I can accept failure, but I cannot accept not trying --- Michael Jordan
- As a cure of worrying, work is better than whiskey ------- Thomas Alva Edison
- Success is 10% Inspiration and 90% Perspiration ---------Thomas Alva Edison
- Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress ------Anonymous
(I find this one very relevant...there were times I spent hours reading through a chapter and not taking time to understand....or take notes....and this reminded me that it's not how many hours you spend studying that actually matters....it is how effectively you study)
- Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired----------- (Very very relevant to me at times!)
- It is height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half------------- (So yes, study properly from the start....you cant cram in at the end and expect to pass...well, unless you are very very lucky!!)
-Some people dream of success....while others wake up and work hard at it --------(Every morning when i wanted to go back to bed...this kept me awake....and of course, mugs and mugs of coffee!!)
Thank you all once again. Wish all of you all the very best, for CPA...jobs....and whatever aspirations you have in life.
Regards,
Dharana
