[Q3] FAR Study Group 2014 - Page 63

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  • #598398
    nicole2035
    Member

    Also just a word of advice, i would not waste my time doing a practice exam more than once. I did the ninja practice exam, gleim, and i've been going over past AICPA released questions. Everything tends to keep hitting in the same areas, i think the practice exam is to give you a feel of what the real questions are like (you'll find they're more condensed than what your review material has been giving you) and what key concepts you're missing that you think you get. I'd just do 3 sets of 30 MC and 7 sims in a 4hr time span on weak areas if i had extra time

    #598400
    Tootsie
    Member

    @chliab, they should tell you whether or not to enter in a credit as a negative number. If they do not, I would enter it in as a positive number.

    Well, I finally got a part-time job for the summer…teaching GRE to about 5 college students, lol! I am looking forward to it, as I love teaching. 🙂

    I redid the sims (most of them) and am feeling better about them, but man, the journal entries are crazy. There are just too many to know. Hopefully the ones I focused on will be on the exam. Also, I redid the multiple choice and that went well. My exam is 1 week from today. I feel ready and confident to kick FAR's butt!

    FAR - 76
    AUD - 88!!! DONE!!!!!!!!
    BEC - 76
    REG - 77

    never, never, never give up

    #598401
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I have an older Becker FAR book so I was thinking of purchasing and using the Wiley Test bank. Any input?

    #598402
    jennibfox
    Member

    Last Day of Study — Going to run through the SIMS to make sure I am comfortable with what they are asking and how to answer. Then I am turning my full attention on my my homemade flashcards with all the J/E and formulas and other important information. There are a handful of topics I would like to review before going into tomorrow. I want to make sure I have a fair chance at every question. Thanks you all your support through this process. I will moving into the AUDIT group on Monday. I will definitely have a better idea of how to study from the start.

    FAR - JULY 2014 - PASSED
    BEC - MAY 2015 - PASSED
    REG - AUG 2015 - PASSED
    AUD - AUG 31 2015

    #598403
    Tootsie
    Member

    @jennibfox, good luck! Let us know how it goes. Sounds like you are very well-prepared.

    FAR - 76
    AUD - 88!!! DONE!!!!!!!!
    BEC - 76
    REG - 77

    never, never, never give up

    #598404
    Tarheelgirl
    Member

    @jennibfox – Good Luck tomorrow! Let us know how it goes.

    I will also be joining you in the Audit group next week after my exam.

    FAR - 46, 79 (7/8/14)
    AUD - 56, 59, 2/23/15 3rd times a charm!
    BEC - 69, 74 Really??
    REG - April, I hope. Fingers crossed!

    #598405
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    jennibfox good luck!

    #598406
    JRyan154
    Participant

    I am having a lot of trouble with this question:

    “On December 30, Year 1, Chang Co. sold a machine to Door Co. in exchange for a non-interest-bearing note requiring ten annual payments of $10,000. Door made the first payment on December 30, Year 1. The market interest rate for similar notes at date of issuance was 8%. Information on present value factors is as follows:

    Period PV1 @ 8% PVOA 1 @ 8%

    9 0.5 6.25

    10 0.46 6.71

    In its December 31, Year 1 balance sheet, what amount should Chang report as note receivable?”

    a. $62,500

    b. $46,000

    c. $45,000

    d. $67,100

    The answer is A, 62,500. I thought it would be C, 45,000 because it's asking for the PV of the note receivable, so wouldn't that be a PV of 1 ($90,000), and not an annuity ($10,000)? The explanations for each wrong answer all say “The note constitutes an annuity with nine payments since the first payment is made on December 31, Year 1” which doesn't really explain the annuity vs. PV1 issue I am having…

    AUD: 78
    BEC: 81
    FAR: 72 (TBD)
    REG: TBD (2/14/14) <3

    #598407
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    JRyan154,

    Since Door Co.is making annual payments, annuity factor should be used.

    It is calculated using ordinary annuity factor, you sort of eliminate the first payment made in advance from your calculation, so what you have left is 9 payments to be received at the end of each year = 10000 * 6.25

    #598408
    CPA50
    Participant

    BigBob – I got on Khan Academy and looked at Sal's videos for present value. I found them very helpful in explaining the details.

    AUD 88 (expired), 80 retake
    FAR 64,69,67,73,67,73,73,73, August 3
    REG 75 (expired) September 7
    BEC 72, 77

    The adventure continues...

    #598409
    Metfan
    Member

    @JRyan154

    The answer would be $45,000 if you were getting all of the $90,000 in 9 periods from today. It's an annuity because you're getting a consistent $10,000 payment for each of the next 9 periods.

    To break down the annuity it's really the PV1 of $10,000 for 1 period plus the PV1 of $10,000 for 2 periods, and so on until 9 periods. If you add up all those present value factors it should equal 6.25.

    #598410
    youngh
    Member

    Reviewing everything within the book at the moment, taking the exam tomorrow. Any of you guys focusing on the other inventory cost flow assumptions? FIFO retail, LIFO retail, etc.

    FAR - 87
    AUD - 92
    REG - 77
    BEC - 11/29/14

    #598411
    SIR AGE
    Member

    Also taking the exam tomorrow morning. Can't wait to quit out of the becker program for the night! Gonna hit some more MCQ and then review my notes in the a.m. before the exam.

    AUD: 5/27 82!
    FAR: 7/3 80!
    REG: 7/21 76!
    BEC: 8/8 78!

    #598412
    Me.
    Participant

    Just took BEC, switching to FAR for my retake hopefully beginning of August, going to use Ninja MCQ's this go-around. Hopefully getting involved on the forum will keep me motivated to get this thing done!

    REG - 50, 64, 73, 76
    FAR - 67, 65, 67 Ugh!!!
    BEC - 65
    AUD - November 30

    "You just can't beat the person who never gives up." -Babe Ruth

    #598413
    thechapman
    Member

    Has anyone else done poorly on their second go around with the homework in their review stage? Right now I'm on F5 (leases/bonds) and am scoring in the 60s. That is starting to freak me out, as my test is in a week…any idea if I should switch to doing something else?

    Just to note, that score is through doing almost all 120ish questions for F5…

    Passed - 2014

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