[confusedcandidate]

I’m studying full time for FAR right now and scheduled to take it the first week of January. I accepted a full time offer starting mid January and I was wondering if it’s possible to jump straight into BEC from FAR and study like 10 hours a day for two weeks and pass it, before I start working FT. I know virtually nothing about the exam and what it tests except that it covers managerial concepts and cost accounting which is by far my weakest area of accounting.

Any thoughts or advice? Best crash course? etc.

Weekends are meaningless to a CPA candidate

[Anonymous]

its been done. you would have to be really motivated, efficient, and work hard. the material is not hard to learn, but the actual test is difficult because you will get questions that were either not covered in your material or they just dont even have to do with the subject. i think its possible tho if i had to do it cause my life depended on it. it would be tough tho. since you already studied FAR, you should be able to handle it

[taxgeek83]

I had gone through the material and read the Econ chapters and a bit of the IT chapters, but for the most part I just spent a couple of weeks on flashcards and the test bank, and passed. It's doable – you will just have to focus.

[CPA soon]

I studied for about 3.5 while working full time and now waiting for my score. I know someone that took it in two weeks and passed but wasn't employed. You can do it if you study well.

FAR - 71, 68, 74, (8/31/14) 78 ✔
REG - 67, 71, 71, (10/18/14) 78 ✔
BEC - (11/29/14) 86 ✔
AUD - 73, (4/4/15) 86 ✔

I can't believe this is over! 2 years and 3 months..

[univegabw]

If I was to say it was possible I would suggest just hammering home Ninja MCQs nonstop for it. I think BEC and MCQs only is not a bad approach to pass. You may not remember much by the time you see the passing score, but you can do it I think if you are seriously putting in that kind of time for 2 weeks straight.

I wouldn't even read over correct answers and just read the wrong ones and then go through the wrong ones once you finish. I'd do it a section at a time rather than just random sets on all topics. Go random once you've gone through all of them once. I also recommend not wasting your time trying to figure out the Flowchart questions on MCQs. I think they can fry your brain way too much for something that is such a little aspect that could be tested.

A- 53, 55
B- Passed!
F- Not Yet Taken
R- 1/17/2015

[troppy]

BEC is the exam to wing it on, if any. I work full time and was able to prepare for and pass BEC in 5 days. Probably spent 20 hours doing Becker. I found some of the lectures were general knowledge type stuff so I skipped 3 of them.

Becker Self Study
AUD Oct 2014: 94
BEC Oct 2014: 90
FAR Nov 2014: 84
REG Jan 2015:

[univegabw]

Another thing to note is that if you've taken AUD and studied fairly well for it there is some overlap in BEC as far as the corporation and auditing standards to follow. It's more on the side of the company and not the auditor, but pretty much similar so if you think you know AUD well enough you can probably glaze over that and focus on other things. I'd definitely know your Macro/Micro Economics well enough to be able to understand a question, but not so well to be able to create the question if that makes sense.

A- 53, 55
B- Passed!
F- Not Yet Taken
R- 1/17/2015

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