[Q2] AUD Study Group 2014 - Page 35

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  • #183479
    jeff
    Keymaster

    I’ve had a few requests for April/May Study Groups…March will be here before you know it.

    In order to take an early April exam, you should begin studying…now. 🙂

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

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  • #568529
    NYCaccountant
    Participant

    What's A4? Sorry, I'm using Wiley. I saw a question or two. seems you need to be able understand basic accounting and how transactions flow through the financial statements.

    FAR - 93
    REG - 87
    BEC - 84!!!!
    AUD - 99!!!!!! CPA exam complete.

    #568530
    Gabe
    Participant

    @NYC sorry. Becker chapter 4, and you nailed it. Knowing basic transactions and how they +/- ratios

    CPA, CFE
    CISA- Experience will be completed by August 2016

    #568531
    Qlad
    Member

    @nyc, gabe…yup , looks like i have to get my FAR notes out again…practice some j/e and hopefully i will be able to get those…i failed so many times on REG that i forgot all about FAR and BEC..

    FAR 72,71,81 🙂
    AUD 64,71, 72, 75 🙂 I'm done !!!
    REG 73, 74, 74, 84 🙂
    BEC 76 🙂

    #568532
    Gabe
    Participant

    @Qlad, we can always work through some of them on here. Practice doesn't hurt 😉

    CPA, CFE
    CISA- Experience will be completed by August 2016

    #568533
    NYCaccountant
    Participant

    Yes, but the journal entries are pretty basic.

    Say average AR remained the same, but sales increased year over year, you would expect the AR ratio to increase because a higher credit sales number is being divided by the same AR number. Which means that you must have gotten better at collecting receivables because you've managed to have the same AR, but increase sales, which means you collected a larger percentage.

    Say you failed to record a sale in the prior year, and you have net credit sales of 100,000 and average AR of 10,000, which would leave you with a ratio of 10. Say you included that sale, both numerator and denominator would increase, which would result in a lower turnover ratio. Say the unrecorded sale is 10,000, we'll post the entry:

    AR – Debit – 10,000

    Net Sales – Credit 10,000

    Now our AR is 20,000 and our credit sales is 110,000. Then we do the ratio, 110,00/20,000=5.5, so the turnover ratio went down. Let me know if I am getting this correct, I've only seen one problem, but trying to make sense of it in my head.

    FAR - 93
    REG - 87
    BEC - 84!!!!
    AUD - 99!!!!!! CPA exam complete.

    #568534
    Qlad
    Member

    now that i am on ch 5 of becker, just making a list of basics of transactions that i must know…from FAR to logically answer the mcqs of AUD..

    1. Derivatives

    2. Inventory…lower of cost or mkt..

    3.Ratios

    4. A/R account

    5. periodic method and perpetual method entries…

    6. amortization and depreciation entries

    can't remember any thing else

    FAR 72,71,81 🙂
    AUD 64,71, 72, 75 🙂 I'm done !!!
    REG 73, 74, 74, 84 🙂
    BEC 76 🙂

    #568535
    thehip41
    Participant

    Hello kind sirs and madams. I had band practice all afternoon, now I'm ready for 200 more MC.

    This is really the story of passing the CPA exam. Worked all week, studied all week, played drums all day. All I want to do is watch hockey and take a bath and pass out.

    Instead, I have to do 200 MC and want to kill myself every second I'm doing it.

    It helps to know I passed 3, and nearly passed AUD the first time. Just two more weeks of suffering and I am done.

    Someone asked when I'm sitting, it's May 24th

    FAR - 83
    AUD - 73 92
    BEC - 83
    REG - 88

    Licensed CPA in the state of Michigan

    #568536
    thehip41
    Participant

    This sucks so hard

    FAR - 83
    AUD - 73 92
    BEC - 83
    REG - 88

    Licensed CPA in the state of Michigan

    #568537
    JamesBJames
    Participant

    I'll be done with A2 tonight. Thank God. I think it's slowly sucking the life out of me. Learning about compilations and reviews, and how reviews of issuers differ from reviews of non-issuers, and attestation agreements, and how they all differ from audits, and the slightly different ways you write each report — expressed by inanely long mnemonics, to boot — isn't easy.

    I have one issue that I want to clarify, though.

    For compilations, it's not required that an auditor be independent; if they aren't, of course, this lack of independence needs to be mentioned in the compilation report in the last paragraph.

    For any sort of attest function, the auditor must follow SSAEs and be independent. I assume this is because most attest functions are reviews or examinations where some sort of assurance is provided, so not being independent is… well, kinda bad.

    Becker notes that one attest engagement is to issue a compilation of a financial forecast. Is the auditor still required to be independent here, even though it's a compilation?

    FAR: May 1st, 2014 - 91
    AUD: May 29th, 2014 - 97!
    BEC: July 16th, 2014 - 91
    REG: August 29th, 2014 - 88

    Licensed December 2015

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    #568538
    thehip41
    Participant

    Another 195 done today. Only have 155 left for tomorrow. zzzzzzzzz

    FAR - 83
    AUD - 73 92
    BEC - 83
    REG - 88

    Licensed CPA in the state of Michigan

    #568539
    YORKER
    Member

    This is my third part and all I have to say is I hate Audit! It's almost more of a test of being able to read the question correctly as opposed to actually testing audit knowledge.

    #568540
    NYCaccountant
    Participant

    How does the Wiley test bank stack up to the exam? I feel the test bank questions so far are not that bad, but I'm pretty sure i'm going to come across hard sections soon.

    FAR - 93
    REG - 87
    BEC - 84!!!!
    AUD - 99!!!!!! CPA exam complete.

    #568541
    thehip41
    Participant

    NYC.

    Wiley seems overly wordy to me.

    I don't see much of a difference between gleim, wiley, and ninja ( I have all three for AUD)

    FAR - 83
    AUD - 73 92
    BEC - 83
    REG - 88

    Licensed CPA in the state of Michigan

    #568542
    NYCaccountant
    Participant

    Wiley questions more wordy than actual exam?

    FAR - 93
    REG - 87
    BEC - 84!!!!
    AUD - 99!!!!!! CPA exam complete.

    #568543
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I have been slacking with my studies SO HARD, mainly due to the fact that Audit material is super boring. Hopefully i'll get back on track soon…

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