March 8, 2010 | Posted by Steve (cpastories) What makes you think or believe that you can accomplish what you set out to do, or that after struggling for a little bit, you will be met with success after you turn the corner? As far as I am concerned, nothing beats personal experience. When you can say, “I have gone through that, hence [...]
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February 12, 2010 | Posted by Steve (cpastories) This is a series in which I am thanking those who helped me pass the CPA exam.
I have been lucky to have met and been taught by some great Professors. At first, I thought I could just thank one Professor (whose name I had forgotten!) because he led me to a student (whose name I [...]
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February 3, 2010 | Posted by Steve (cpastories) This is a series in which I am thanking those who helped me pass the CPA exam.
Next up, my girlfriend, Mwayi!
When we see people who have accomplished something thank their family and friends, or go on an endless litany of how who did what when where, we sometimes don’t appreciate how certain people can make [...]
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January 25, 2010 | Posted by Steve (cpastories) This is a series in which I am thanking those who helped me pass the CPA exam.
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I met Joel when I was taking an undergrad Managerial Accounting class in 2004. It was a prerequisite for the MSA program [my undergrad degree was not in Accounting, so I had to take a ton of [...]
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January 21, 2010 | Posted by Steve (cpastories) This is a series in which I am thanking those who helped me pass the CPA exam.
First and foremost, God!
Where do I begin? I do not know. Even if I try to stick to just the CPA exam, I still see that I could not have gotten to the point of thinking or wanting to [...]
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December 31, 2009 | Posted by Steve (cpastories) I was looking at some SAP career info and along the way, I found a book by an SAP mentor, Jon Reed, called Resumes From Hell. Here are sample chapters. My favorite sample chapter was: “If you don’t ask, I will: The Self-Questionnaire”. I look forward to getting the book; it appears to be both [...]
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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 [...]
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