[MrsBing]

I started working at a new company last year as a Financial Analyst and the Director at my company discussed my up-coming goals with me shortly after I started. Since I found out the company would pay for it, I mentioned that I would like to complete the CPA exams within a year and hopefully become a Senior by next year. Since I’m always studying, everyone knows I’m studying for the CPA exam. Well now since everyone knows that I recently past my first exam FAR, I’m getting research questions from my boss. There’s other CPAs that work in my department (my boss not included), but people are thinking that since I’m studing for these exams I know all the rules. I’m not really upset with that, because I like researching and learning and know that this will help in the future with my career.

My question is can anyone recommend any good not so boring books about the FASB codification and/or questions/answers concerning hypthetical questions? I also have basic access to the codification website, but searching takes so long since the basic view doesn’t have a find function. How should I (Should I?) go about bringing up the company paying for an advanced membership which is about $1k/year.

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FAR: 89
REG: 87
AUD: 92
BEC: 75
Ethics: 90

Licensed Arizona CPA

[Anonymous]

:O That's an expensive subscription!

If you have access to a test bank with the Authoritative Literature, as ridiculous as this sounds, I might suggest opening up a pretend SIM just to use the AL, since it has a search feature.

Not sure beyond that since I haven't used it much…

[peetree]

Do you work for a public company that perhaps gets audited by the Big 4?

One of the perks of engaging one of the Big 4 is that with your engagement fee (most of the time) you get access to pretty extensive research material. I know PWC has a pretty great site although I can't remember what its called.

If not, explain to them that the membership would help the firm as a whole while researching and try to spin the idea that way.

If all else fails, you can always try to search using the authoritative literature in your becker software (although that would obviously just be a stop gap)

FAR 02/21/13 - 95
REG 07/02/13 - 87
AUD 08/02/13 - 94
BEC 08/30/13 - 85
Ethics Exam - 90

Illinois candidate awaiting his license

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[littlenumberrobot]

Sounds like you need a subscription to PPC or Thompson Reuters' checkpoint also has an accounting subscription.Look into those and tell those who are asking you know where to find the answer but not off the top of your head!

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[MrsBing]

@Elisabeth, Yeah, I can't believe how much it costs just to be able to use the search feature.

@peetree and @little. Yes, I work for a Public company that's audited by one of the Big 4. I'll look into PPC or Thompson Reuters.

I also thought about buying the 2013 Wiley GAAP interpretation. It's less than $70 to buy or $25 to rent on Amazon.

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FAR: 89
REG: 87
AUD: 92
BEC: 75
Ethics: 90

Licensed Arizona CPA

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