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post #1 of 9
10/22/07 at 1:15am
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Hey...

Any CPAs out there? After my latest degree is conferred on me, I'll be elligible to sit for the CPA exam. I haven't taken an accounting class, but my post-graduate training is in law, specifically taxation (I'll have something like 30 credits in taxation next spring), and I'm considering taking a few classes in accounting so I can sit for the exam and hopefully pass.

Anyway, if you're a CPA, I'm wondering how much accounting theory I need to eek by that part of the exam? Obviously the first two basic classes (Accounting 1 and 2) but what else should I take after that?

Thanks...
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post #2 of 9
10/22/07 at 1:49pm
Take every accounting principles class you can (including cost and managerial accounting), your tax law will help but take a tax class for the practical stuff, and auditing. Also, the Exam has changed in the past few years and now features more questions dealing with business law and management.

Honestly, I don't know how anyone who didn't go to school for accounting could pass the exam without at least a couple years schooling and intesnse studying. I majored in accounting and failed the exam spectacularly. Good luck to you. If you follow through, you're a better man than I am.
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post #3 of 9
10/22/07 at 2:55pm
Oddly enough Devildoubt I'm on track to consider the very same thing. Although I'd personally like to look into that Certified Fraud Examinaner cert but that's a work experience related one.

Mind you each state has their own CPA requirements. So best to check that first.
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post #4 of 9
10/22/07 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken
Oddly enough Devildoubt I'm on track to consider the very same thing. Although I'd personally like to look into that Certified Fraud Examinaner cert but that's a work experience related one.

Mind you each state has their own CPA requirements. So best to check that first.
I did, which where I got the idea.

You say you're on the same track. Are you studying tax law?

Thanks for the advice guys -- this is still a few years away, but it's something I'm going to work on.
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post #5 of 9
10/22/07 at 3:35pm
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Originally Posted by gravedigger
Take every accounting principles class you can (including cost and managerial accounting), your tax law will help but take a tax class for the practical stuff, and auditing. Also, the Exam has changed in the past few years and now features more questions dealing with business law and management.

Honestly, I don't know how anyone who didn't go to school for accounting could pass the exam without at least a couple years schooling and intesnse studying. I majored in accounting and failed the exam spectacularly. Good luck to you. If you follow through, you're a better man than I am.
Yeah, I'm a dark-horse candidate, but we'll see what happens. Hell -- I passed the bar, so nothings impossible.
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post #6 of 9
10/22/07 at 3:52pm
Tax Law? Oh god no, my LSAT scores were horrendous (148). I've been just doing a few accounting courses online. (Yeah not that great but what can ya do when you work full time?) and by the time I'm done with my auditing class. I'll have more than enough units to start studying for the test..or at least get a better job.
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post #7 of 9
10/22/07 at 4:20pm
The few people I know who were insane enough to get their law degree and their CPA have all said the Bar Exam is a cakewalk compared to the CPA Exam. So that gives you something to anticipate/fear.
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post #8 of 9
10/22/07 at 4:36pm
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gravedigger

The few people I know who were insane enough to get their law degree and their CPA have all said the Bar Exam is a cakewalk compared to the CPA Exam. So that gives you something to anticipate/fear.



Sheeiitttttt
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post #9 of 9
10/22/07 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by gravedigger
The few people I know who were insane enough to get their law degree and their CPA have all said the Bar Exam is a cakewalk compared to the CPA Exam. So that gives you something to anticipate/fear.
Oddly enough, that makes me want to do it more.
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