[jeff]

I’m creating an AUD Study Tips thread to point people to when they ask “I’m taking AUD on ____ … any tips?”

Please share your tips/advice.

Please Do: Share your tips/advice/study experience

Please Do Not: Write “Buy XYZ Study course” … we can do that in another thread.

Please Do Not: Even hint at exam disclosure “I wished I had studied more____”. Just share tips/tactics on how you studied and your timeline, etc…anything you think would be helpful to someone starting out.

Please don’t post follow-up questions/comments…it will make the thread cluttered and I will delete them so that this thread is only AUD Study Tips.

Thanks for helping future candidates,

Jeff

Jeff Elliott, CPA (KS) | Another71 | NINJA CPA | NINJA CMA | NINJA CPE

[topharry123]

This is just a general exam tip that was a great help for audit especially. When in the exam, use the research tool for the sims. I have a read a lot of posts and people are often unaware that you can use it for all the sims, not just the research question. Using this tool in the exam for the sims got me a 91. Had I not have used the tool, I would probably have been a lot closer to 75, maybe even below it as it helped me out 100% on 2 sims in full.

A second tip is to leave yourself time to refresh the material after you have studied it. For example, I use CPA Excel and worked my way through every single lesson once watching the videos, reading the text book and doing all the questions. I left myself 2 weeks before the exam to go back through everything. This allowed me to do 200+ exam questions a night and time to go back and review the things that I was unsure on. This was a great help as there was no pressure or worry that I would not get the material finished in time, and it allowed me to do so many questions that by the time the exam came round there was not a question in the material that worried me. Doing so many questions just before the exam and not having to worry about learning new things from scratch gave me great confidence going into the exam.

Finally, be sure to understand the answers to the questions you practice and do not memorize them. If you're using multiple programs to study, don't take an answer for granted unless you know the principles behind the answer. For example, there are a couple of online programs that I have tried that gave me answers that were wrong. I thought they were strange answers, so I looked up the principles in the study text for CPA Excel. As it turned out, the answers on the other programs were wrong. This is not a help to anyone, but because I concentrated on learning the fundamental principles I was able to realize that they were wrong and move forwards with the right answer.

FAR - 95
REG - 93
AUD - 91
BEC - 85

[MintsRGood]

RTMFQ. Read it 2-3 times and understand what the call of the question is, then take a second to recall what you know about it BEFORE you look at the answer choices, scribble it on your note board, and THEN look at the answer choices. Pick the one that matches up with YOUR scribble! With auditing it is SO easy to allow the answer choices to pollute your knowledge. Be sure to watch out for except, always, only, etc.

Auditing MCQs are the devil, so be careful!!!!!!!!!

Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

REG: 75 DONE 🙂
AUD: 61, 71, 68, 92 DONE 🙂
BEC: 76 DONE 🙂
FAR: 72, 74, 79 DONE 🙂
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