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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congratulations and I love the idea of “gratitude” – most of all for your own accomplishment.
Adrienne
Posted by Jr Deputy Accountant on December 25th, 2009.
Hey Adrienne, Many thanks!
Posted by Steve (cpastories) on December 28th, 2009.
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