[Anonymous]

Hello All,

Congratulations to those who have passed their exams, to those who already are CPAs, and those who are about to achieve that designation.

Just signed up to seek help from all of you who had been in the journey and those who are passing this challenging road.

Another 71 is so appropriate for me. Born in year 1971! Yes. Have been stay at home for 6 years. Started my CPA journey in 09 by taking evening classes. Just completed the accounting requirement to sit for the CPA exam. Currently enrolled in some business courses (being a non-business major). My target is start the review any time this fall (as daughter will be in 1st grade full time).

In Massachusetts, a candidate has to complete at least 9 credits of business courses to sit for the exam. My plan is to complete all the business courses asap. Below are the list of courses that are available and, I sincerely need your advice as to which of these courses will help me pass the exam:

1. Business Law

2. Financial Management

3. Management Info System

4. Quantitative Analysis

5. Microeconomics — do you think this is a very good support course?

6. Operations and Logistics Management

7. Business Policy and Strategy

8. Principles of Marketing

Although, MA requires a candidate to have a total of 24 business credits (for the designation), I will have to start doing the courses for the test.

If you feel that 9 credits will be insufficient, I appreciate inputs as to how should I wisely attack the battle ahead of me.

[Minimorty]

Given those choices I would take (1) Business Law, (2) Financial Management, (3) Management Info Systems, and (6) Operations and Logistics Management.

Yes, there is some micro-econ stuff in BEC, but it is pretty basic. The Business Policy and the Marketing Class will be useless. I'm not sure what the Quantitative Analysis class consists of, but it probably wont help you much with the exam.

[mmcgrad1]

I'm on my last section of the exam so I'll give you advice based on my experience.

I would definitely take 2

The others are debatable. I think 1, 3, 5, 6, and 7 are helpful.

I'm not sure what 4 is exactly.

I know many people here have complained about all the non accounting stuff on BEC. The truth is, I had most of the material in my finance, econ, and strategic and operations management classes.

If you take a review course you're bound to get the material you need. However, it might be easier come exam time if you already studied it before.

I would probably pick 1,2, 7. I do think macro and micro econ are important as well, but they are logical to me.

@mini

I think the op is saying they can only take 9 credit hours. That would be three classes.

NIU CPA Review Correspondence is awesome!

I passed all four sections on the first attempt

[sarah210]

I'd say definitely 1 & 2. Probably 5, but I'm not sure about those other classes, since I've not taken any of them.

I found the b-law class I took to be very helpfu when I took REG (just so I had basic info, and wasn't learning it all for the first time), and finance was probably the most helpful background for BEC. I've taken 3 econ classes, and those were also helpful with BEC. I knew the info in one of the chapters in Becker so well I barely had to study for it.

I would think that 8 would be a complete waste of time. There are maybe 1-2 pages in the entire BEC review that have anything to do with marketing.

REG- 53, 91
BEC- 88
FAR- 62, 85
AUD- 85

Ethics- 93

[Anonymous]

Thank you to all of you who replied. I will definitely take the courses you're recommending.

As I did my economics class in '92, I will just have to review the concepts using MIT open courseware plus get the textbook for only $10 (used). The microeconomics course has syllabus and quizzes at each chapter. A brilliant tool — you better check this out.

[futuremdcpa]

I would definitely take Business Law, Financial Management, Management Info System, Microeconomics. The rest I don't think would help you one bit.

Law will help for REG, the other classes for BEC.

REG: PASS || BEC: PASS || AUD: PASS || F: SCORE PENDING..

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