FAR Study Group July August 2013 - Page 76

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  • #437374
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    @Mel4CPA – I haven't rewritten journal entries! Thanks for the suggestion. I definitely need to switch it up.

    #437375
    nbad311
    Member

    good luck to everyone taking it this week/weekend. Is it weird that I found a 5pm-9pm Prometric slot on a Saturday night? I've never taken an exam this late in the day. Georgia Prometric centers really get down!

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

    #437376
    solodolo
    Member

    @Mel4CPA yeah, it is possible to have later testing times. I just confirmed on the prometric website. It states, 4:30 PM (doesn't say ET, i'm in New York) and my e-mail reminder has it down as 16:30 military time. Was scared for a moment.

    FAR - 08/27/13 CPAExcel 90 + Becker Final Review Notes
    AUD - 10/11/13 CPAExcel 82
    BEC - 12/05/13 CPAExcel 80
    REG - 08/04/14 CPAExcel 84 + Becker Final Review Notes

    #437377
    Mel
    Participant

    Oh wow, well that's awesome, sorry to scare you!! Good luck to you Solodolo!!

    #437378
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Is anyone else just downright terrified of the exam? I feel like that kills my confidence. I'm doing well on all my Becker progress tests (85%) but I'm just shaking in my boots over here.

    #437379
    Mike1987
    Member

    @Cardea, you are certainly not alone. I'm really not looking forward to a 4hr exam. I took two 3 hr ones before this. I remember how draining audit was and that did not even have any calculations.

    #437380
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    @Mike FAR was exhausting when I took it in April. I consider myself a good test taker, but I swear the more exams I take the more I know how crazy they can be and it freaks me out.

    #437381
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    @Mike FAR was exhausting when I took it in April. I consider myself a good test taker, but I swear the more exams I take the more I know how crazy they can be and it freaks me out.

    #437382
    Mel
    Participant

    @Cardea I am sort of freaked out. I keep going between panic and calm feelings each day. I keep telling myself to just keep plugging away and learn as much as i can because i need to and will pass this exam.

    #437383
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    @Mel — It's so hard when you start getting burnt out before the exam. We can pass this! I keep telling myself that I know what I'm doing. Last time I totally psyched myself out before I took the test and it killed me.

    #437384
    tphil
    Member

    Just finished the first Becker practice exam, and man, 90 questions is a lot of questions! I'm used to the 72 with REG and BEC. This is gonna be a fun test to take…

    #437385
    solodolo
    Member

    @Mel4CPA Thanks Mel! Don't stress over the test.

    I just took it and it's not that bad. Everything seemed reasonable. Also, seemed like they were only testing me on 25-30% of the material I had studied. LOTS of IFRS.

    It's over and I can't really tell how I did but I went through it as best as I could. And now to wait…

    FAR - 08/27/13 CPAExcel 90 + Becker Final Review Notes
    AUD - 10/11/13 CPAExcel 82
    BEC - 12/05/13 CPAExcel 80
    REG - 08/04/14 CPAExcel 84 + Becker Final Review Notes

    #437386
    newuseracc
    Participant

    @tphil how'd you do on the practice exam? Also I don't know if I already asked you this but what are you do in terms of studying for your last week of studying? just nothing but multiple choice? whats your method?

    #437387
    newuseracc
    Participant

    Can someone help me understand the logic behind this troubled debt restructuring problem:

    https://imgur.com/Xy3SXqj

    it says theyREDUCED the interest rate but yet in the explanation for the problem they use the OLD interest rate to determine PV and to determine interest income??

    #437388
    tphil
    Member

    The practice exam went pretty well. T1: 90% T2: 86% T3: 93%. The score summary showed me missing some points on various sections of the simulations, especially the second sim, but when going through them, I actually only missed 2 parts of the first sim and everything else was green, so not sure what happened there. I'll be doing the second practice exam tomorrow. I was thinking of doing it today but don't really have the motivation. For the rest of today I'll probably do some more MCQs and rework some of the sims. I haven't looked at any of the practice sims since I did them the first time through, so a little refresher on those couldn't hurt. Tomorrow, I'll do the other exam and maybe some more MCQs on my weakest areas and then call it a night/complete wrap on my studying before my test at noon on Thursday. What's your plan?

    As for your troubled debt restructuring question, I don't really have a good answer and am not an expert on this topic since it's barely covered in Becker, but on page F10-27 (if you have the Becker book) under modification of terms, it says that the present value of a loan (calculated by the creditor) should be discounted at the loan's historical effective interest rate. Not sure why or if that helps, but thought I'd throw it out there.

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