Thanking those who helped me pass the CPA exam

December 23, 2009 | Posted by Steve (cpastories)

While I was preparing for my last exam, I managed to squeeze in some time to read, Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. One of the core ideas in the book is that “nobody does it alone”. Nobody can claim to have been successful by his or her own effort alone. Some critical success factors need to be present and they need to fall into place at the correct time. One is not necessarily always in control of those critical success factors, especially people, time, and events. I, surely, did not do it alone!

So, here is a summary (list) of the people who helped me pass the CPA exams. I hope to some day write a piece on how each of these people contributed to my success.

1. God

2. Joel

3. Mwayi

4. A certain tax Professor at SIUE.

5. A certain student in my tax class at SIUE.

6. My mom (- my family)

7. Martin

8. My uncle

9. Daniel

10. My facebook friends

11. My work friends at Matthews

12. My work friends at Everest

13. Daryl

14. Betty

15. Everest

16. Jeff (another71.com)

17. Yaeger CPA review

18. Gleim testprep CDs.

19. Michael (a twitter friend)

20. Leo Babauta, the Power of Less challenge (and the friends there).

21. ILBOA

22. NASBA

23. Prometric

24. My blogs

25. Todd

26. Jacob

27. Canada

28. More friends

29. CPAnet.com

30. People I don’t know… [restaurant servers, librarians, office cleaners, etc.]

31. You

32. My friends at SIUE

33. Brian (Philosophersnotes)

34. St. Mary

35. St. Joseph

36. St Jude

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Last: Me

I look forward to sharing with you how these people contributed to my success in the CPA exams.

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

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