[Anonymous]

I’m using CPAexcel, but I’m guessing this logic applies equally to any review course – the CPAexcel lecturer isn’t awful, it’s just the material. I watched lectures for FAR pretty often, and found them very helpful, because it was quantitative material and I learned by watching and following along with the demonstrations and walkthroughs of specific problems.

But AUD? There is nothing quantitative here (at least not yet). There’s hardly any explanation a lecturer can hope to add, no insights to the book or what’s plainly written on the slides. It seems like all they can possibly do for you is read the book at you. And it is SO boring. The material is so dry, and so incredibly repetitive. It isn’t like FAR where every new section is a terrifying journey into another account, it’s just the same thing, over and over and over again…substantive, material misstatement, management’s responsibility, controls, planning, fraud AND error, those charged with governance…ugh…

I don’t like skipping the lectures because when I hear things I tend to remember them, and I feel like they might be pointing out important topics, but they feel like gigantic wastes of time. I think I’m just going to ignore them entirely, at least for now…maybe I’ll read the book and refer to the slides for direction, because all the guy’s doing is reading off the slides anyways. and obviously do 30,000 MCQs and some sims, but that goes without saying, right?

[nicole2035]

i find reading AUD and even listening to it horrible. There's no equations or problems to solve based off the information so it makes it even harder to picture. I re-read every paragraph looking for key words on what distinguishes it from other topics bc it all is like one big blur

[kujayhawks02]

I'm going through the exact same thing right now. I have watched the CPAexcel videos for all the other sections and none of the others were this brutal. I didn't know if it was just because I was tired or burnt out, but I have had a really hard time focusing. Audit just seems so repetitive in comparison to the other sections. I'm about 80% through the material so I am going to just push through and finish it, but I really don't feel like I learned very much from the lectures in comparison to my previous experiences. I feel like even the sims and questions are all the same. Glad to know it isn't just me! We've got a week and half old newborn and I was starting to feel like I was going crazy as if I was watching the same lecture over and over.

FAR - 79
BEC - 72, 79
REG - 75
AUD - 84

[Anonymous]

Becker candidate here.

Just as boring and miserable on our side. I don't know how I will get through it.

[NicoleL]

I just finished the last Becker AUD lecture about 2 hours ago! What misery…with any luck that's the last time I'll ever need to listen to Gearty say “again”! Becker has definitely worked for me but those lectures were painful…all sections, not just AUD.

FAR - 93 (YAY!!!!)
REG - 93 (Double YAY!)
BEC - 87 (Whew!)
AUD - 96 (DONE!!!!!)

[005]

Yeah, I stopped watching the lectures; just reading the book and doing the MCQ and sims now. If there's something I need clarification on, I'll watch the lecture, but for the most part, I just read the chapters, take notes, do the questions and sims, and take note on anything I got wrong/didn't know and move on.

Good luck everyone

BEC - ✔
REG - ✔
AUD - ✔
FAR - 11/29/14

CPAExcel, Ninja MCQs, and a sh*t ton of coffee

[RIST]

Michael Brown teaching Audit 4.

I think Gearty and Olinto specifically didn't teach that lecture so that they could avoid the task of explaining that stuff!

[Anonymous]

Another Becker-user here – and I loved Michael Brown for Audit 4/5! It's important stuff, and it was a break from the “again”s. 😛

Also, I actually found Audit to make a lot of sense, but maybe that's because I spent a lot of time studying audit in school. It's REG lectures that have my head spinning, since it's just number after number – sure, it's quantitative, but those numbers are all arbitrarily set, lacks any form of consistency, and the process simply doesn't make sense. Like OP, I found FAR to be actually interesting, whereas I can barely stand these lectures and keep finding myself procrastinating on listening to them, when I really can't afford to do that…..

[Anonymous]

YES! The AUD lectures made me want to claw my eyes out and I don't feel like they helped that much. I decided to skip FAR and REG lectures because I felt like I was wasting precious time watching them and trying to stay awake.

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