Accountant's Musings: CPA Exam & Life Beyond

I just finished my Ethics exam a few minutes ago [scored 95], so I am now completely done with the CPA exams. It feels great to be done with that last part.

I had ordered the CD version of the exam. It was misdelivered about a week ago, and I contacted the AICPA. They were gracious in their reply and they issued a replacement order, which arrived yesterday after I found out that REG was in the bag. I could not start working on it yesterday for all sorts of reasons. The major one was that my personal laptop’s disk drive doesn’t work, so I planned to go to work Sunday to use my work laptop, and also to be in a study mode/mood.

I went to church and from there drove straight to work, 5 minutes away. Got lunch, and started going through the 145 pages of the CD study parket. At around page 25, I lost patience and decided to start working on the test and read as I go. That was around 1pm or thereabout. Since there are 40 questions, each question is worth 2.5 points, so if you miss more than 4 you would have to “retake” the test. I didn’t want to do that, so I took my time, verifying things. I had read somewhere, (I think it was on cpanet.com forum or another71.com forum that) even if you order the CD version, it is best to print the exam and mark off your answers even if you plan to take the exam online. Printing did not work for me because for some reason, the printers on the network were not connecting to my computer or vice versa. Lucky enough, we have Adobe Acrobat (Standard), and I could use that to mark/highlight/make notes on the PDF version of the exam. I preferred doing that to using the AICPA’s Multiple Choice Answer Sheet that came in the mail.

Anyway, so, after about 7 hours, I was ready to register online to take the exam. It was so nice to just click through as I had already marked off the answers. Of course, I verified the first few questions and a few other random ones to make sure the order was the same!

A couple of minutes later, it was 8:30pm and I got my 95. I will print my certificate tomorrow and I will send it via USPS certified mail.

I guess in the next couple of days I will start reflecting on my journey and the insights – (more like thoughts and reflections) – of this journey. I decided to take sit for the CPA exam sometime in January this year. I am showing that Yaeger CPA Review shipped my order on 1/30/2009. I paid NASBA for the four exams on 2/26/2009. I received the NTS on 2/27/2009. I scheduled all my exams with Prometric on 3/9/2009. I spaced them about 6 – 8 weeks apart.  My first exam was Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR) scheduled to be taken on 4/20/2009. I supplemented Yaeger with Gleim Testprep CDs and my first CD order was on 3/15/2009. It has been an intense year – school, working insane 60+ hour-weeks at times, and a few other interesting things. About 11 months later, it is nice to be done with all the CPA exams.

To God be all the glory, forever and ever, Amen!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you found that helpful.

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