[MintsRGood]

Considering the recent spike of Audit wrath on the forum, I felt it necessary to make a thread devoted entirely to how much we all hate the auditing section of this exam! While I found a few hilarious threads about the BEC Haters Club, I found no such outlet for Audit and found that to be unacceptable. If you would rather stick your hand down the kitchen sink and hit the disposal, drink milk 8 weeks past the expiration date, or blow dry your hair in the bathtub rather than ever sit for auditing again in your life…welcome home. 🙂

I loathe audit because in audit land it’s perfectly acceptable to be WRONG…ahem, excuse me…misstated. Mind you it’s acceptable for an account can be wrong/misstated, just as long as it’s not “materially misstated” aka “more wrong than a misstated balance which in reality is a wrong number to begin with”. Seriously??? Come on, man. No wonder Audit has the lowest pass rate of all the sections right now!!! In tax land there is no concept of “materiality” and that’s how I like it! Please give me the internal revenue code any day with it’s 1,000,000 rules, regulations, procedures, and guidelines to follow because I like to color in the lines. I like things to be right or wrong, period. No subjectivity in my numbers, please and thank you!!! God bless the Internal Revenue Code!!!!

Now it’s your turn! Why do you hate audit???

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

For both FAR and AUD sims I left 2,5 hours. I would solve them all, sometimes I knew I was wrong, and then I would read them again, I changed my answers at least three times, every time I read those sims I would find something new, I think I spotted a few tricky sentences in those sims, but it took me a while (3rd or 5th attempt to read/solve those sims).

Both exams I scored comparable on mcqs, I didn't come back to read mcqs, I simply hated the idea and I can't recall most of my mcqs. But while studying I mostly focused on mcqs, so on an exam day 80% far and 70% aud mcqs looked familiar.

So read those sims till you feel sick, put your analytical skills to work! I came with a solution for one of my far sims next morning after exam.

FAR 85
AUD 83
BEC 76
REG 90

[seattleacct]

I'm beginning my re-study of Audit. It was my first exam attempt. I failed. I decided to try a different section, BEC. I passed. So I thought alright, lets study another 8 weeks for Audit and take it again in October. I failed it again. Not wanting the year to end with just one test completed I studied FAR for the month of November and got through 33% of my study materials, did as many WTB MCQs possible and took a ‘hail mary' exam. Why not. I passed. I also just found out I passed REG from taking the test a couple of weeks ago.

Now it's back to the drawing board with my old nemesis. I still really hate audit. My eyes want to bleed after reading the boring, dry, nonsensical material.

But here we go… I'm going to retake AUD next month. Hopefully third time is a charm.

B:76
A:64, 73, 91!
R:77
F:76

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[seattleacct]

I'm beginning my re-study of Audit. It was my first exam attempt. I failed. I decided to try a different section, BEC. I passed. So I thought alright, lets study another 8 weeks for Audit and take it again in October. I failed it again. Not wanting the year to end with just one test completed I studied FAR for the month of November and got through 33% of my study materials, did as many WTB MCQs possible and took a ‘hail mary' exam. Why not. I passed. I also just found out I passed REG from taking the test a couple of weeks ago.

Now it's back to the drawing board with my old nemesis. I still really hate audit. My eyes want to bleed after reading the boring, dry, nonsensical material.

But here we go… I'm going to retake AUD next month. Hopefully third time is a charm.

B:76
A:64, 73, 91!
R:77
F:76

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[zumbasweety]

I hate audit too. I'm mad at audit. Audit and I are not friends. I hated audit in college. I'm moving on to Reg. 🙂 I have a July date with Audit. I hope to murder it in its sleep. I have been watching too much Snapped.

FAR 82
REG 76
BEC 71, 78 (There is a light!!!)
AUD 69, 83 (DONE!!!!)

[zumbasweety]

I hate audit too. I'm mad at audit. Audit and I are not friends. I hated audit in college. I'm moving on to Reg. 🙂 I have a July date with Audit. I hope to murder it in its sleep. I have been watching too much Snapped.

FAR 82
REG 76
BEC 71, 78 (There is a light!!!)
AUD 69, 83 (DONE!!!!)

[yourmomsaCPA]

I'm studying for AUD and hate it so hard. Just like someone else said…it doesn't *seem* hard so I always think I'm right. I take practice exams and an like “probably a 99. MAYBE a 98 since I'm a little under the weather tod—65?!?! WTF? Was this the Spanish version?”

FAR - 87 2/18/14
AUD - 84 4/2/14
REG - 87 7/23/14
BEC - 78 8/26/14

I'm finally an *official* CPA - TX

[yourmomsaCPA]

I'm studying for AUD and hate it so hard. Just like someone else said…it doesn't *seem* hard so I always think I'm right. I take practice exams and an like “probably a 99. MAYBE a 98 since I'm a little under the weather tod—65?!?! WTF? Was this the Spanish version?”

FAR - 87 2/18/14
AUD - 84 4/2/14
REG - 87 7/23/14
BEC - 78 8/26/14

I'm finally an *official* CPA - TX

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