My name is Erica, and I passed the CPA exam in February of 2011. In my earlier blog, I discussed the fact that we all face some dilemmas after the CPA exam. What do we want to do with our lives? Where do we want our careers to go? Working in a smaller, regional

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  My name is Erica, and after several years of lollygagging I finally buckled down and passed my last section of the CPA exam in February of 2011. Somehow we think that there will be some pivotal shift in life and work after the CPA exam is over, and in some ways that is certainly

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It’s been a little over a year since I completed the difficult journey that is the CPA exam.  Once you finish the exam, it’s easy to forget the periodic gut-wrenching stress as you are struggling to get through your material and exam time approaches. You tend to concentrate on the highs- getting the passing scores,

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  What is your work/educational background? I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2002 with a BS in Accounting. I worked for two years in public accounting, spent a year and a half working as a working student for two Olympic-level dressage (horse riding) instructors and then resumed my accounting career in late 2005.

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