Self-study is fine as long as I have the answer key to practice questions.
I have taken one online tax course but that was only individual taxation. We didn't do corporate, partnerships, gift, estate, etc. The professor had us fill out a 1040 (among other forms) PDF without using tax software. And we'd get the answer to how much was due or owed, so that we could check our work. I thought it was a pretty good class. Learned a lot more than what I learned studying for REG.
It gets a little pricey taking courses though. Class (Foothill College) was about $200 and then another $150 for the book. I wasn't able to resell the book since the year was over. That's the annoying thing about tax classes and part of the reason why I never took one during my undergrad. The books are uber expensive and hard to resell since they create a new edition every year. And unfortunately the professor who teaches the corporate tax class has very bad reviews on ratemyprofessor.
I was wondering how they would teach corporate tax in a regular class. Looks like in the Gleim EA course, you read a book and just do multiple-choice questions. That doesn't seem as useful as filling out actual tax forms.
FAR- 88- 6/16- (Ninja Avg. 74%)
REG- 89- 7/16- (Ninja Avg. 77%)
AUD- 95- 8/16- (Ninja Avg. 81%)
BEC- 82- 9/16- (Ninja Avg. 75%)
[Wiley CPAExcel + Ninja MCQ]
Finally licensed.
FAR - June 2016 - 88
REG - July 2016 - 89
AUD - Aug 2016 - review phase currently
BEC - Sep 2016 -
Wiley CPA Excel & Ninja MCQ