Hello, future CPAs!! My name is Nisha, and I started this journey of becoming a CPA back in 2010 because I followed my audit professor’s advice, “get it done as soon as you possibly can.” Two years later, here I still am. I started out late September 2010 not really knowing what I was

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  Five Years, 24 Tests, and Many Tears Later So I wanted to write a “wrap up” blog about my journey and I don’t even know where to start. This last time I took the exam I walked in and thought to myself, “I’m going to show you how great I am!” But buried deep

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  HA71R – or in CPA studying mnemonic terminology – Hello Another71.com readers. I had high dreams for myself and started sitting for the exam back in 2007 as I was also taking graduate school courses and obtaining my MBA. One section later – I quit… In the mean time I graduated with my MBA,

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  Hello NINJAs, I’m brand new to the blog, as well as the CPA journey. I guess I’ll start off with a little bit about myself. I am 26 and graduated college in 2008. Since then I have worked in a corporate accounting position. It is far from my dream job but there are a

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  Hey A71-ers! My name is Mark. I graduated with my Accounting degree back in 2006. Then I stuck around for a year taking Finance courses to pick the 150 hours. I called it the victory lap, but really I just wasn’t ready to leave college. After dragging my feet for several years, I started

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  Nineteen days… no not nineteen days until the tax deadline arrives but nineteen days until I can crack back open the study materials. I find it kind of funny and sad that I am looking forward to this but it is what it is. I have decided that I am going to go with

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  What’s up NINJAs! My name is Joe; I am 28yrs old, married to an incredibly supportive woman, Father to an amazing two month old boy (who by the way, doesn’t care about the CPA test) and finally a Future CPA. I am just a NINJA newbie, starting my CPA Journey on February 27th of

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I have decided that 2012 is my year to pass the CPA Exam! Let me introduce myself by telling all of you my very sad and embarrassingly long journey with the CPA Exam so far: This is scary and sad to write.  I started my journey by receiving my first NTS in September 2006. I

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Hi All!! My name is Natasha Hart. I graduated with my degree in Accounting in May of 2009. I got engaged soon after so decided to put the CPA Exam on hold until after I got married at the end of July 2010. I have worked in Consulting for a Public Accounting Firm for just

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  Hi Another 71ers! My name is Ashley and I’m pretty new to blogging, but not new to this site. Another71.com is a website I visit daily for study tips and encouraging words! I started my CPA journey March 2011. I took BEC May 2011 and got a…68. I was still pretty upbeat and decided

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