Hi, Ec8338.
When I was in grad school (5 years ago now), I chose not to do the becker program (which is stressed to take on campus and held on campus) due to costs and ordered Gleim instead mainly because it was so much cheaper.
My learning style and the gleim books do NOT work together. Even with their program I felt completely unprepared and ended up sucking it up and doing Becker years later. The Gleim books seemed to me to be more of a learning text book rather than a review course. The Becker books just fit well with how I learn, and how the cirriculum was in college. However, there is another college in the area who uses the Gleim books as text books for accounting classes – and these people seem to do great with the Gleim materials.
Truth be told, you'd need to take a look at a couple pages of a Gleim book to determine if it is right for you. Look at a couple of pages from another course you're debating about and then make the call. It seems like many of these courses have sample tutorials online that you could look at. You also mentioned you work at a firm, check with your co-workers to see if any of them would have a book you could look at. I realize content probably changed, but the structure would still be the same.
Check their websites, and even you tube for sample lectures. They're all respectible courses, it's just a matter of finding the right one for you.
Wow I wrote a lot…here's hopeing my BEC written communications showed I can write.
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