[Asja]

So what is YOUR sacrifice for the CPA exam???

For me, it is, the extra food I’m eating that I shouldn’t be eating (health)
The excercise that I am not getting (health)
Clean house
Time with family
Fresh air

:(:(:(

[Skynet]

A college Virgin to the CPA Gods.

[Asja]

Side note: I had a professor of Organizational Culture, she was a younger pretty lady, who said she used to be a CPA, and I guess she ran into some issues that made her want to switch fields. I can only guess but I assume that the office atmosphere at accounting firms is probably pretty sexist…Yes! I said it!.

[jombe]

@Roze – please don't generalize. It really depends on the firm. I worked at a firm w/ 200 employees and over half my department were females from top to bottom. On a senior manager level, there were actually more females than males. Females were very well respected at my firm and in fact, my peer group's highest raise was given to a female.

FAR - 94 (10/4/15), Local Prep Online Lectures, BISK & NINJA MCQ
AUD - 99 (1/19/16), Local Prep Online Lectures, BISK & NINJA MCQ
REG - 96 (4/19/16), Local Prep Online Lectures, BISK & NINJA MCQ
BEC - 91 (7/19/16), Local Prep Online Lectures, BISK & NINJA MCQ

581 days of listening to lectures, reading texts & 10,000+ MCQs...

[Accounting_is_Taxing]

The accounting profession is actually dominated by women. I assume the issues that your professor had were related to the actual profession itself if she's in that different of a field.

[Tommy]

Maybe more EVIDENCE of racism opposed to sexism. Yea I said it! My opinions and observations are my very own. And btw, im not a “minority” or whatever label the establishment uses to refer to people these days.

[alloverit]

@Roze

Unless you looked her up and found her as a member of the state board for whatever state she was practicing it's hard to know if she was ever a CPA AT ALL. I have a neighbor who is a PhD in biology who told me he was a CPA in my state before changing fields.

I never doubted him, but was just curious about whether he was still licensed and kept up with his CPE so I looked him up one day. But when I looked him up on the state board's site his name was nowhere to be found (though it lists people ever licensed whether active inactive, withdrawn, suspended, etc. all the way back to the forties).

As it turns out, his experience as a “CPA” was that he was the Home Owner's Association treasurer before I moved into the neighborhood…yes…I'm serious. He just thought ANY type of accounting was “CPA”.

[Jimmy Dugan]

In addition to all of the above, it could be that she simply wanted to do something else, like, say, teach Organizational Behavior? A ton of people get a CPA at 23 or 24 and many, many of them will figure out they want a career other than accounting. I'm sure there is a “sexist atmosphere” at some firms, but this professor could have left for any of a million other reasons. It's beyond bizarre to go straight to that one.

[Asja]

Well…that is very encouraging…I don't know why I thought that. I think just comments she made, that sort of hinted that it wasn't a good atmosphere…I don't know why I assumed she weas descriminated against? What is wrong with me? I gotta start studying for some FAR and get all this nonesense out of my head. I guess I have experienced some wierd experiences that some people might classify as “Sexual harrassment”…just uncomfortable…and, I was suspicious of everyone's motives. anyways…on with life. thanks for everyone's two cents.

[jmd496]

Everyone wants to be a victim. Newsflash to everyone with a victim-hood complex: life is hard for everyone, not just you.

[rahee]

Yikes. This thread is a mess. I don't think its fair to say “everyone is a victim” when sexual harassment/racism/discrimination/etc are all real issues in society–and honestly, if its a society issue, then its also a workplace issue. Having said that, I think companies are getting better at promoting diversity, inclusion, and overall wellbeing of their employees. Even though, there have been a couple recent cases in prominent accounting firms where things were mishandled, I'd like to think majority of the companies will not tolerate inappropriate behavior.

[Recked]

Gonna tip toe back out of this thread… what a mess indeed.

[TommyL]

[Asja]

Don't mean to bump this again but I the reason I derailed this thread is because I was a bit offended at the “college virgin” comment.

[AnAccountant]

If you were that offended by someone making an obvious joke in an online thread where people go to blow of steam and express their worries about an impossible exam, then you are going to have a really hard time making it in the real world, let a lone the world of business.

[Jimmy Dugan]

Let's all simply walk away and live to fight another day. Love, peace, and chicken grease!

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