[jeff]

Recommended prep time for BEC is 4 weeks @ 20 hours a week.

Study Notes: https://www.another71.com/cpa-review-store/

Study Videos: https://www.another71.com/cpa-exam/cpa-exam-review-video/

[Grant9859]

Thanks for the info, gocpa. I just finished going through the book (Becker) with the exception of OH Variances, which made no sense to me when I went through it the first time and attempted the HW questions. I am about to watch the Roger CPA free demo on OH Variances and hopefully get a grasp on them, then it will basically be non-stop problems until my exam Tuesday, although I may skim through the Becker Technical Addendum for IT sometime this weekend.

FAR - 81
AUD - 91
REG - 85
BEC - 80

[Anonymous]

Anyone received a score from Maryland?

[saryal]

Thank you GO CPA! I will try my very best to memorize the formulas all day tomorrow. The only problem is I am still working on B-5 and I dont know how much time I will have to revise B1-B4. I will memorize B-5 all day tomorrow for sure though!

Thanks on all the great advice and good luck… I am sure you will pass, and I will keep trying 🙂

@Grant:

I am planning on looking through the Addendum for IT, too.. there were a few questions from the Addendum on the HW.

Good luck for the exam..

[saryal]

Congrats GOCPA! you Go CPA 🙂

I am so happy for you 🙂

wish you all the best for the rest of the exams!! And for Audit I suggest you memorize everything. I know it sounds crazy but trust me, I havent received my scores yet, but I felt very comfortable leaving the test room. Be sure to memorize the report and focus on internal control and B2.. Good luck 🙂

I have BEC Saturday I am almost dead from inside (fear!)

praying hardddd for everyone

[Anonymous]

Took this dummm thing on October 1st….can't re-apply or re-schedule pr re-pay until i receive the notice I failed – not that I failed but just say'n…..

OCTOBER 1st and here it is NOVEMBER 18th and my snailmail state hasn't even posted a date for which they BELIEVE they will MAIL THE GRADES. 49 days and counting….

Un-freaking-believable.

I can't believe anyone places any faith into the Postal Service in 2010. They lost my original application and I didn't learn that for 5 weeks. They lost my last grade sheet which they didn't re-mail until 8 weeks out and I live 10 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE STATE OFFICES.

The system is beyond BROKEN.

[Taki]

I'M TAKING BEC TOMORROW…CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT =(

AUD 83
BEC 78
FAR FEB 2012
REG 83

[gocpa]

Thanks Saryal!

Good luck on your AUD score and on your BEC exam!

Btw, If you have some time left to practice some more multiple choice questions, you may want to go to cpareviewforfree

It's free and you only need to provide your email address. They have some good IT questions for practice! You might find this website helpful in preparing for the other sections as well.

Good luck again!

FAR - 79
BEC - 84
AUD - 89
REG - 02/05

[Susan]

Does anyone know how Becker's practice exam compares to the real thing in terms of difficulty?

AUD(8/3)-87
REG (8/31)-90
FAR (10/18)-92
BEC (11/30)-89

[kitchenlittle]

I think Becker exams are way hard…especially the second. I also think that the CPA exam is way hard!! I did pass BEC, but BARELY and I put in over 70 hours of studying in the two weeks prior to the exam….overall 200+. I work full time too!!! I use Becker, but do not think it does it for me. I graduated from a state college with a 3.50 GPA, so I didn't think I would struggle as much as I do.

AUD 70, 79
BEC 76
REG 01/17
FAR ???

[Anonymous]

H E L P !!!!

Can someone recommend me a good review for BEC?

This is the second time I fail BEC, using Becker!

Thank you!

[Sdb2fsu]

@cev Yeager!!!!! I took BEC and used Gleim first and, well, my score shows (60). I used Yeager this last time and I felt so much better leaving the exam. I haven't got my score back but man I know I got better than a 60!!!! Yeager really teaches you the concepts and Cindy is awesome for Cost and variances!

BEC - 60, 71, 79
AUD - 73, 66, 87!!!!! Yes! I am done!
REG - 74, 76
FAR - 75

Yaeger Review for all except my last AUD score (Roger)!

[Grant9859]

Looking for some clarification regarding Days Sales Outstanding/Receivables Collection Period formulas. In Becker B-3 p.65 this formula is part of the Cash Conversion Cycle and is shown as: Average Receivables / Average Sales per day.

On B-3 p.71 there is another formula referred to as Days Receivables Outstanding/Average Collection Period and is shown as: Ending Receivables / Average Daily Sales

Is the formula on p.65 solely for use in the calculating the Cash Conversion Cycle? In doing a little research on Google, it appears that people are using the terms “Days Sales Outstanding” and “Days Receivables Outstanding” interchangeably. Can somebody help distinguish these two formulas because using Average A/R compared to Ending A/R will obviously produce different results, so I'm thinking these are two different formulas. Thanks.

FAR - 81
AUD - 91
REG - 85
BEC - 80

[mrfps422]

I don't remember which message board I was looking at but I saw that someone has a review sheet with all the BEC formulas on it that was being passed around. If anyone has it or can point me in the right direction, let me know.

Email is mrfps422@hotmail.com

Thanks and good luck everyone!!

REG: 10/2011 - 76
BEC: 11/2011 - 81
AUD: 2/2011 - 64, 80
FAR: 5/2011 - 83 ILLINOIS - DONE!!

[veena]

@ saryal sorry as I my reply you late I thought that the formulas for variance were quite easy for me as I have studied in my grad so i maintained the notes for the formulas and took some hours to memorize them but I am sure that the backer material was very confusing especially the B-5 but I tried to manage it through remembering them let see how I get the marks hoping for the best.

I hope you have done the exam well and all the best for the results.

[veena]

@connie thank you so much for the link.

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