[Anonymous]

Do I need to worry about taking the graduate level tax, audit, cost, etc courses before taking a CPA Exam section?

Or should I just get Becker/Roger and have them teach me everything?

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[Sam2k]

The material tested is not any more in-depth than what is covered in an undergraduate accounting program. So, you should be able to do well just from a review course, such as Becker, which re-covers all the likely topics like you've never seen them before. If you actually want to get a graduate degree though, you may be able to do just fine taking the exams after your courses end. However, keep in mind that a graduate program is not really geared towards helping you pass the exam, so it may put emphasis on matters that aren't heavily tested and brush over things that are.

FAR - 98; AUD - 94; REG - 95; BEC - Waiting;
Becker Scholarship for Success (I got it free :))

[Nicole]

I'm taking my graduate courses now and it just depends on the course and teacher…my business law class was actually created to fulfill my state's CPA education requirement, so it was straight up CPA review using the CPA review book as a textbook. But then some of my other classes are “seminars” – seminar in auditing, seminar in government and non-profit accounting, seminar in ethics, and seminar in accounting theory. All we do in those classes is read articles from accounting journals, discuss them in class, and write long essays. Ick. My tax classes are more relevant, but since I haven't started studying for REG yet, I am not sure how relevant to the CPA exam it is. The classes are a nice refresher to keep the general material in my head, but I wouldn't say they would help me pass the exams.

Florida - Using Bisk, Jeff's Notes, and CPAreviewforfree.com

FAR - 87 (08/14/10) AUD - 97 (11/12/10)
BEC - 83 (02/26/11) REG - 90 (05/31/11)

[michelle119]

I'm taking graduate level individual and corporate tax and we go into more depth than is on the exam. If you just need to brush up on stuff Becker is a good course, but I've heard Yaeger is a very good teaching course… If your state requires 150 credit hours and you still need some it wouldn't hurt to enroll in graduate classes that coincide with the section you are taking at that time…

FAR 7/2 - 88
BEC 7/30 - 87
AUD 8/27 - 80
REG 11/12 - 96

[75 CPA]

I audited all of my undergraduate courses AFTER I had taken those same courses for credit. A review of those college courses did not help me pass the CPA exams! I wasted my time. Yaeger, a teaching course, helped me pass FAR, REG and BEC. However, if a graduate course specially is geared to helping you pass the CPA exam, it is well worth taking.

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