[Whydoineedthis]

I’m a first time poster and I’ve been reviewing for BEC for the past week. My test date is July 5th, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a ranking of the different chapters that BEC covers, in terms of importance to pass the Exam. Thanks!

[wombataholic]

19-23% – Financial Management
16-20% – Economic Concepts and Analysis
16-20% – Corporate Governance
15-19% – Information Systems and Communications
12-16% – Operations Management
10-14% – Strategic Planning

Licensed CPA
Passed each section on the first try with Ninja Notes/MCQ/Audio

[Anonymous]

if you have Becker, it shows you the weighted % importance in the introduction. if you don't, go here:

https://www.aicpa.org/BecomeACPA/CPAExam/ExaminationContent/ContentAndSkills/DownloadableDocuments/CSOs-SSOs-Effective-Jan-2016.pdf

[MaLoTu]

What items fall under strategic planning, does anyone know what that entails?

[Amortized and Energized]

I think that was the portion that included discounted cash flow and capital structure items and NPV type stuff.

FAR - Aug 2015 (58), Feb 2016 (81)
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BEC - May 2016 (79)
AUD - Jul 2016
REG - Aug 2016

[Kmay89]

I know the strategic planning portion includes the budgets such as flexible budget and cash budget. It might also include variances, but I'm not sure of what else, the wording from AICPA is a little vague, but it says strategic planning is:

A. Market and Risk Analysis
B. Strategy Development, Implementation, and Monitoring
C. Planning Techniques
1. Budget and analysis
2. Forecasting and projection
3. Coordinating information from various sources for integrated planning

BEC- 93
FAR- 9/6/2016
AUD- 10/7/2016
REG- 11/21/2016

Wiley CPAexcel Self Study & Ninja supplements

[Whydoineedthis]

Thanks everyone for the helpful posts, I do have Becker so I know the different weights, but I'm feeling like my scores when I redo the hw come from mostly memorization, which stinks. Is anyone else finding the optional problems to be way harder than the regular hw problems?

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