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Hi All,

I’m in the information gathering stage at the moment and I was hoping to get feedback from you all on the best study/review material for the CPA exam. The only one I heard of during college was the Becker. Now I’m seeing Wiley, Yaeger, etc and I don’t know which to choose. I’ll bite the bullet on Becker, but would prefer something more cost effective if it will get the job done.

Here is a brief backgroud summary:

-Graduated College about 4 years ago with BBA in accounting. Worked full time while in college and graduated with honors thanks to pretty good study habits.

-I work as a financial analyst so I use some accounting; enough where I don’t feel I’ve lost a lot of knowledge.

-I would like a ‘study at your own pace’ type of review. Something I can sit down at my cpu anytime of day and plug away.

Please offer your opinions. Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

I'm talking about only my experience (Maybe others are happy with the system, so you can have your own criteria)

I bought CPA Excel because I found it online (I didn't know so much about other reviews) and the way the pulled me to buy the software was because I was international student and they would help to find the best state, but I had to buy the whole stuff and I was not sure because I didn't know the review so I bought only FAR.

At the end I searched by myself and found and was accepted by an State that fits my experience and education.

But in a travel to the US I bought the book of Wiley from amazon and notes from Wiley because they were updated with 2013 (CPA Excel is really confusing even in the updates)

I realized that CPA excel is really a fake copy of Wiley. They put everything “summarized” but don't explain in detail.

When I started Wiley I found it was a dictionary! So much information but, it was very useful.

I asked here about experiences and they referred Wiley a lot.

Now, I'm designing my strategy to study FAR and I will invest my time in Wiley (studying 4 hours per day + weekends) and supplement with Exammatrix (a review that is only based in questions) and Wiley test bank.

Today I was happy to see that I retain good from Wiley because I do my notes etc.

I heard Becker is good, I might keep an eye on that as well.

Wish you good luck!

[Author]

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