[Anonymous]

So I passed BEC before but then the 18 month window ran out. I do not remember it having so many calculations at all. Am I the only one?

I had maybe 6 calculations the entire test

[Pete]

Yea, the calculations for BEC are a bitch. Someone else posted over 50 of them. There's the return on assets and the double return on assets… and the dupoint-double return on assets/the meaning of life, then the dupoint meaning of life…

I have my test in a month, have already gone through the entire book and am getting nervous about this section, simply because there is so many damn formulas. Many of which aren't logical formulas or don't have some method to at least move towards the right answer. For example, for XYZ turnover, it's (some related factor)/(AVERAGE XYZ) or Inventory turnover=COGS/AVG inventory turnover. Yet, this law fails for return on ABC. For example, on Return on Assets (ROA), average assets go on the top of the formula AVG ASSETS/Total Equity. For Return on investment, however, it's NI/Investment; this is a pain in the rump because there is no pattern or shortcut to memorize the Return on Items. Someone should post a shortcut to all the formulas or method to get through them without memorization.

B=84 This exam was such a b**** that I thought I failed-don't know how these things work
A=76 Slacker I am, I'll happily take it
R=81 I LOVE taxes
F=80 I don't wanna get banned for an expletive I'm thinking with "yea" proceeding it

[SaveBandit]

If you are using Becker, they tell you BEC is mostly a conceptual test (which is true) then throw you 7 million terrible calculations in your review materials. It makes no sense.

4 for 4

FAR 85
AUD 94
BEC 86
REG 90

[Pete]

Are all the Return on XYZ's the same, speaking of the devil. IE. is the Dupointe method, just a larger breakdown of the same formula, but will yield the same answer/number?

B=84 This exam was such a b**** that I thought I failed-don't know how these things work
A=76 Slacker I am, I'll happily take it
R=81 I LOVE taxes
F=80 I don't wanna get banned for an expletive I'm thinking with "yea" proceeding it

[Procrastinator]

I would say it's possible to have a BEC exam with minimal calculations. I just took mine this past month and was shocked at how conceptual it was. With that said, every test is different. Plenty of people say their test was full of them. Like every other test, you gotta know it all!

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