[OnmywaytoaCPA2727]

Soooo my bf decided to plan an impromptu cruise for July 14-19. I take Audit on the July 27 and just started studying Monday. I basically have 14 days to study and that freaks me out!!! I studied for FAR for 5 weeks and still didn’t come out of my test on July 1 feeling all that great. Has anyone spent such little time on Audit and passed?? I feel pretty comfortable with a lot of the material because I had an awesome Audit professor, but that was last fall when I took the course. Any advice on how to study quickly and efficiently or what I can do while I’m on the cruise is greatly appreciated!

FAR: 7/1/14 (waiting for my score is torture!!)
AUD: 7/27/14
BEC: 8/30/14
REG: TBD

[Anonymous]

I was in my last semester of grad school with two papers due right after a friend's wedding cruise. I took my stuff with me and worked on it for 1-2 hours every day on the cruise and partied like a drunken sailor for the other hours in the day. It can be done. It's just a matter of whether or not you really want to do it and whether or not your husband is supportive. We were with a ton of people because it was a wedding so my husband had plenty of people to keep him occupied while I was studying. The fact that you are studying full time up until then makes it that much more doable.

[stag]

I spent 4 hours a day for 2 weeks studying for AUD while working. Basically I went to work 2 hours early to avoid traffic and studied there, then leave work 2 hours late to avoid traffic and studies there. Totally study time was roughly 55 hours. Even managed to take the day before exam totally off to refresh myself. Passed with 88. So if you focus, 2 weeks are totally doable.

FAR - Aug 2013 Passed
REG - DEC 2013 Passed
BEC - FEB 2014 Passed
AUD - MAY 2014 Passed

BSEE = who needs accounting degree to pass CPA exams?

[Anonymous]

I did it in two weeks- studied an hour during lunch, three when I got home at night, and three hours on the two Saturdays. Didn't study at all on Sunday. Also, was billing 55 hrs per week and had an hour commute into and out of work.

It really isn't very much material. I wouldn't even recommend taking more than three weeks. Used only the Wiley text. Passed with a 77, probably would have been better had I not taken FAR the next day.

[junbugCPA]

I studied for 6 weeks while working full-time and got a 99. I was obviously over-prepared…

Good luck!!!

FAR: 1/31/2014　PASSED! (91) First try!
BEC: 2/28/2014 PASSED! (82) First try!
AUD: 4/14/2014　PASSED! (99) First try!!!!!!
REG: 5/31/2014 PASSED! (82) First try! I'm DONE!

[Skynet]

10 minutes but found out that is was nothing more than a dream when I was sitting at the desk naked at Prometric.

[MintsRGood]

Auditing is funny…you either snap to it or you don't. For tax minded folks like myself, auditing can be one long and slow train ride through hell especially if it's conceptually foreign to you! You've already taken FAR, so there is a fair amount of overlap in the material. This will help tremendously. Also if you are working in audit, freshly out of school, or the concepts make good logical sense to you then you will be in decent shape for a fast and furious style prep. Pound the MCQs and make sure you understand the entire audit cycle from start to finish. Something that help pull the timeline together for me was to diagram/flowchart the entire process. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

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