[Anonymous]

I studied FAR using the Gleim book and their software. I thought their book was long and overly detailed. Gleim has great MCQ software but they charge you extra to get simulation problems so I switched to Wiley books and software. Wiley’s book is just as bad if not worse!

These books are so detailed and I don’t have a short video lecture to look through on the first go around. Any “good” books out there for an overview approach. Gleim and Wiley are very comprehensive and are great as a reference on a missed MCQ but seem to get lost in the details.

[nbad311]

This thread is really funny because just this weekend I went to a Barnes & Nobles to buy the Wiley FAR book to supplement the materials I already have, which is the Gleim textbook + online software. This is what I g-chatted my friend:
“Just bought the Wiley textbook for FAR to supplement the study materials I already have. 1075 pages. I am almost crying.”

I haven't used Gleim before; I'm not how I feel overall about it yet and I'm on unit 5 of 20. I like that the ‘chapters' are small and break up into the even smaller subunits with 4-5 corresponding questions each. But I am having trouble already with some of the more complex issues and how they present them. I was looking at a stock split example for EPS last week and felt like the book's example left a lot to be “self-learned” , like I was having to figure out how they came to different O/s numbers at different dates. It just made the process really slow. That or I am super dumb.

REG - 65, 70, 80!
BEC - 35, 62, 79!
AUD - 73, 75!
FAR - 65, 73, 70, 75! DONE.

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