AUD was my hail mary. FAR was 11/9/17 and I felt completely defeated by it, decided to take a week off, work out a bit, see family, change brakes on my truck, all the things I had been putting off. One week later I was in NATP tax class day 2 (11/16/17) browsing the CPA seat availability on my cell phone and a seat opened 12/7/17 at my local prometric, 3 weeks out. Called home and had a picture of my NTS that was in my FAR book on my stairs sent to me, and I was able to grab the seat via cell from tax class.
I decided to cram all the Roger videos as fast as possible. Limited notes, mainly mnemonics and the sort.
The biggest factor in audit is to see the whole picture, start to finish, soup to nuts.
The individual parts make very little sense, but once you see the audit process from start to finish it starts to all fall into place.
15 years tax, no audit experience. EA exam 2013/2014. Part 3 of EA is all on ethics and representation, etc, plus I am required to have 2 hours Ethics every year to maintain EA.
The Ethics and similar stuff was second nature to me at that point. The controls, and processes of an audit were the focus and struggle. Sounds to me like you need to do more MCQs.
I think I had 10 days to do as many MCQs as I could, so at first I was thinking I would do 120 a day, but I ended up only doing 100 a day.
I hit all the chapters for a good chunk in each, and then focused on the chapters I was performing poorly in. No sense in focusing on the fluff you know just to pat yourself on the back. A lot of the information and verification stuff etc seemed straight forward from my tax work.
Good luck!!
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