Dear NINJAs, 1) In your opinion, if using NINJA CPA Review, what is the recommended CPA Exam study time? 2) In the How to Study for the CPA Exam video you mentioned taking notes while reading the book. If I am constantly listening to the audio do I still need to take the notes? Thanks for creating this product! Lawrence Dear Lawrence, Your traditional CPA Review courses are going to take 7-8 weeks of studying per CPA Exam section. Thankfully, you’re a NINJA and can shave about two weeks off of your study time due to the fact that: 1) NINJA Book is 50-75% lighter than other textbooks because it only contains content tested on the CPA Exam Example: FAR NINJA Book is 600-ish pages vs 1,200 for other CPA Review books. 2) The NINJA Study Framework saves you from working an extra 1,000-2,000 MCQs unnecessarily per exam. The NINJA

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Oren writes in: I took auditing in May and I don’t think I did well. My score with regulation is expiring on July 21st. I just found out that I will not receive the auditing score until August 16th. If I do not pass I won’t be able to take auditing again before regulation expires. Will they extend my regulation score? Thank you for your insight. The AICPA has said that in situations where scores will expire and people are messed up due to this extended school release window – with Q2 exams, the scores aren’t released until August – it’s on a state-by-state basis. The AICPA administers the exam but your actual eligibility to sit for the exam and your certificate and licensure eligibility is determined by your state. It’s up to each individual State Board of Accountancy to decide. What I would do is call up your State

Nellie says: Is the NINJA Audio the same as the NINJA Notes? I’m taking auditing in six days. I have the notes but I’m deciding whether or not to purchase the audio. Is it the same as the notes but spoken out loud? Conceptually the notes and the audio are pretty much the same. The same concepts, however they are two completely different performances, if you will. So the NINJA Audio is not the NINJA Notes just read out loud. Each NINJA audio script took me at least a month to write out. And I expand on a lot of the topics. And so the notes are used for like a cram and the audio is best used for… It allows you to study when you couldn’t otherwise get in the time. So when you’re at the gym, if you’re at the gym for an hour, you can literally study