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在美国的华人为了能够令自己得生活过的好一点,或挑战自我,努力去考CPA.但又有几人能明白大家的心情呢
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A lot of people say auditing is the hardest part of the four. I personally saw a lot of different versions of the horror stories. Please feel free to post your experience, by the way, please don't post any CPA exam Questions!!!!!!!
At last, I passed the Auditing part after I tried 3 times.
Honestly, Auditing is most difficult for me. At the first time, I
think I review all stuff in book but left two charter in only briefly
reading. But I failed. Second, since I got job, I can not concentrate
studying. Third, I spent all spare time for auditing and do every
exercise and get understand every problem and mutiple choice. this
time I success.
Based on my experience, Do Not guess the problem that will appear in
exam. remember and understand every word in your textbook. do exercise
three times and do again shortly before the exam. Because when I taken
the exam, Some problems appeared in textbook are still tested.
Good luck,
Don't worry, it is hard becasue it is all memorize. Don't forget it will be no calculation on the exam. Remember it like history, if you are bad in history subject matters.............
HI, I am working on it. but do not feel very happy:-(
Thank you for the information. I added these comments from other group members, but I don't want to post their names here:
1. Based on my past auditing section test experience,
Chapter3,4 are important, which are internal control & evidential matters, carry more weight on the test.
2. I feel Chapter3 is the most important one since it covers the internal control and rsk assessment, which are the core of entire auditing service, though I do not take exam yet :-)
I think the AR=IR*CR*DR is the most important
Thanks for asking. Just double check with the website. Yes, for some reason, the test center is open on May 28th. !!!??? :) (poor student, I dont even know that is a long weekend. CPA exam is killing me!!!!)
Hey, dont worry about that you didnt take the class in US. We took the class and didnt learn anything either. Also, one of my friend in Vermont just sent me an email and she passed AUD without taking the class in US. So.....we are all the same!:)
dont worry about you took class or not.I took the class but can't not get any useful infor from the grandpa. when he was talking one sentence, he was forgetting what he was talking about, then asked us, what i am talking about? what is why AUD is a big pain for me. So when he is the advance accounting class teacher, I did not take the class at all. and pass the FAR. but I am not so lucky on AUD.. Anyway, good luck..
I think AUD is the most difficult one too, since I know nothing about AUD. :) I have never had any AUD class. Let's try out best.
Are you sure you can take exam on May 28th? It is the long weekend for memorial day. :P
I am really glad to see this study group is getting better and better. Quite a few of us are going to take different exams in the next couple months. Let us encourage each other and pass this exam.
Sure, I feel AUD is the most difficult for me till now. the first time i did very good on simulation but not good enough on MC. So I worked it again,but second time I am good on MC but not simulations. so, dont give up any questions, be careful when you are reading on exam questions.dont miss any information( i missed a very important info on simulation for second exam,that is why i need few marks to pass it.)
anyway, good luck to all of us!
BTW, SFW985, sorry about that you have to take it in the third time, can you share with us how you feel about the last exam, so that we can focus more detail and help each other? Let's find out the weak point!
Thanks a lot!!
To Alicewye, I will take AUD in May also. maybe we can help each other?
Thanks for Kathy's good advice. I am planning to take Auditing in May. Thanks for your help. :)
http://www.cpa-exam.org/cpa/literature.html
http://www.cpanet.com/cpa_forum/default.asp
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cpa_group2004/
I hope that would help you guys!
Also how to locate the aicpa's database? I did not find it neither. Thanks!
What the name of the yahoo group? I did not find it. and how to find the cpaforum? thanks.
Thanks for your help! I feel the research part on exam is much more information than the backer software. ONe of my friends she pass it and said it is too difficult to locate them,the same as I felt on the testroom. Now I understood....
thanks again.
Thanks for your sharing. I've not taken Aud. yet, your advice is a great help. :) Thanks again.
Thanks for your support!!! Chinese need to help each other, we need more chinese CPAs!!!
Sorry! I was busy at work and have not visited here for a while. I would like to share with anybody here my own personal experience of preparation of Audit. First, be familar with hot topics, you can either go to yahoo group and cpaforum, there are tons of discussion. Also, I went through five times of Becker review questions, if you do not understand , memorize first. Then after few turns, you would grasp well. The last one, I want to mention is that the research. I believe that everyone registered the exam, you have free acess to aicpa database. Try to reseach there, instead of Becker. I practise couple times of my audit part, I was able to find lots of information that I need for my memo. But for Far part, I ran out of time and did not do any reseach practise, I could not research anything while taking the test.
Last not least, CPA exams are not hard and every one here is pretty smart. So believe that you can do it and pray a little. You will be the winner.
Sorry, forgot to give you mine: [email protected]
Very happy to see you are here!
I did practice a lot. but still failed:-(. Could you mind giving me your email address? I have some questions to ask you.
Thanks!
"information " is the part for the text, on the fail report paper, they will tell you which part you are stronger,which part you are weaker. For example, internal control, planing and supervision. information is one of them.
I had pretty bad experience with Auditing exam. Depite of spending lot of time on studying and preparing, which I think I should, everything goes smooth at exam site except last research section. Dont give me wrong, I dont have problems on researching the topic, the difficulties are how to paste it. Everytime, I can only paste one paragraph, for the second paragraph, the computer couldnt let me do it. I still think if I got research points, I will pass audit part then since I was so close... Anyway, got to do it again, retake it...
What is the detail and the "information" ? Can you list the detail to the public? I think this will help a little bit more. Thanks again.
Thanks for your post and support. I haven't take the AUD section yet, but very soon.
Narrow down the Becker questions, can you list more detail? If you don't want that many people knows the method. You can leave me a message at [email protected]
I will only post it to the group member have the problem. If you like to share the experience to the public, I would really appreciate.