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This post may not be what you think it is by the title. It is a post that You can take this CPA initials and do you know what with them!!! I have about had it with this exam! My wife is expecting our first child (a baby girl) in March and all I want to do is spend time with my wife (while we have the time just the two of us), let my child (although she is in the womb) get to know who her daddy is instead of being cooped up in a room studying when I get home, and get everything ready for her arrival. I have passed two parts and failed the two I have left and I am just tired of failing them, not knowing what to study, seeing the same things I have studied before and just not caring! I am a man of faith and have prayed and asked others to keep me in their prayers and again I have failed these parts twice! Oh and I have paid so much for Becker review materials (updates, expired license, etc.), cpa exam fees, NINJA review items, and I am getting to the part of draining my savings!!!! I have seen 3 people in my firm study the same time as me, pass all parts the first time, and they are now CPAs. I want a relationship with my wife and daughter and I have been ruining it for the 2 years we have been married trying to study for these exams. I will confess that I have not put 100% into studying to where all I do is eat sleep breathe CPA material. I have studied when I get home from work for hours, feel like I have not learned anything, got bored doing multiple choice over and over, doing multiple choice and getting them wrong, writing materials where it just feels like I am writing and what is that doing, etc. That is just ridiculous and life is not about this! Life is about faith, family, then career! I am sorry I am ranting but I just had to get my feelings, emotions, and heartache out there.

[psullyii]

Cajun – Hate that I haven't seen this… audit season has been busy. My wife and I are expecting our first child in April. When I found out we were expecting, I was half way through. Granted, it sounds like I had a little more time than what you are dealing with, but my wife and I decided that there would never be a better time to try to finish than right now, regardless of the sacrifice. I've seen the comments talking about the different ways that God works… and couldn't agree more. My plan was to be taking REG this next month… but that was before I thought I failed FAR. I was so determined to pass an exam in Q4, and so sure I failed FAR, that I signed up to test in the extended window and was determined to study for and pass REG in about 4 1/2 weeks.

By the time I found out I had actually passed FAR, I was more than half way done studying for REG, and then went on to pass that exam as well. It isn't fun, but you can use your situation as the fuel you need to get it done. The amount of studying I got done in those 2 1/2 weeks where I thought I had failed FAR was insane. It's all done now, and will just be a story I get to tell my boy when he gets older and starts complaining about “hard work”.

Study hard, pray hard, and get it done. Like I said, it isn't fun, but you'll be glad you got it done.

AUD - 82
BEC - 81
FAR - 82
REG - 88

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