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You Can Pass the CPA Exam: Get Motivated: Knowledge and Confidence-Building Techniques

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You Can Pass the CPA Exam: Get Motivated: Knowledge and Confidence-Building Techniques
Debra R. Hopkins
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Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

To pass the CPA Exam, learning everything is only half the battle.

The other half is getting psyched.

With an 85 0.000000ailure rate for many first-time takers, the CPA exam is the biggest hurdle an accounting student faces before embarking on a professional career. A grueling, two-day ordeal, the CPA exam is an accounting triathlon--not only testing every detail and aspect of accounting methodology and law, but also the test taker's stamina and psychological preparedness.

For test takers fully intent on passing the first time out, You Can Pass the CPA Exam: Get Motivated is the ultimate exam coach. It helps you customize your own study plan, with detailed tips on cracking all sorts of questions, and, unlike other exam prep guides, gets you acquainted with the actual exam experience via a supplemental CD. By exam day, you'll be thoroughly practiced and mentally prepared for every question type--so you can actually make an educated guess for even an impossible-to-figure multiple choice question and confidently attack a tough essay question--and ultimately, control the outcome of the exam.

Here's what your CPA exam coaching regimen includes:
* A 60-minute audio CD of the author walking you through the exam, the test-taking environment--with advice on how to stay on top of it
* Practice questions from previous CPA exams
* How to divide the wealth of study material into manageable, bite- sized chunks
* Strategies for staying motivated and focused throughout your preparation period--and during the exam itself

Fully compatible with other Wiley CPA exam study products, You Can Pass is a useful addition to any existing study program. With its detailed exam-taking strategies, question-cracking tips, methodical practice regimen, and confidence-building techniques, You Can Pass the CPA Exam is the ultimate preparation guide to help you psych yourself up--and succeed--on the first try.

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Each year, over 120,000 CPA exam candidates continue to attempt to pass the CPA exam. It is a stressful event in the life of an accountant, and the stress goes beyond just the knowledge and the exam itself because of the high percentage (85%), of first time students who fail. This book discusses what really happens at the CPA exam and how the candidate can better control the outcome. It provides the expert guidance on the techniques needed to pass today's CPA exam.

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This Book Was Extremely Helpful!.......2007-03-06

I bought this book back in September of 2005, before taking any parts of the exams. When I began studying, I felt like I was going nowhere. I felt the information in my CPA study material was too much. I studied for about two months before I went on-line and searched for how to pass the CPA exam. I stumbled across this book and thought it was very helpful. It gave techniques on how to study and gave me confidence whenever I went in to take the exam.

I believe that this book should be read in college before a candidate sits for the CPA. My college did not talk a whole lot about the CPA exam (only the basics) so I really wasn't sure how to go about studying. This book is a great investment and informed me of how to use my study time well.

Also, I am happy to say that I have passed the CPA exam. I passed AUD, FARS, and BEC on the first try and it took me three time to pass REG (which was partly my own fault).

Good Luck!

This book can be used as your mentor to help you successfully pass the CPA exam........2007-02-05

What a wonderful book. It seems to have been written for a junior or senior in college who is majoring in accounting. I'm sure it will be very helpful to people on their journey to successfully tackling the CPA exam and getting licensed as a CPA. I found the text to be very informative since I passed the exam back in 1984 (law and theory) and 1985 (practice and auditing) when it was administered a little differently. I must say, though, that the exam experience described in the book sounds like it is still pretty much the same deal I sat through 20+ years ago.

I found out I passed the practice and auditing sections of the exam just two weeks before starting my first law school education. And when I completed law school three years later I sat for the New Jersey and Pennsylvania bar exams together. Taking those two exams was a joy ride compared to taking the CPA exam. And I passed both on the first try with minimal study.

The author in this book doesn't say it, but the reason the pass rates for the CPA exam are so low compared to the pass rates of bar exams is that it's not all that difficult to qualify to sit for the CPA exam. One could be a high school dropout, sneak into community college, and then transfer into a 4-year college that will give them an accounting degree. And they can graduate from college with a C average and still be allowed to sign up for the CPA exam. Exam applicants like that are more likely than not to pull the pass rate down. It's tough to get into law school. The screening process in the accounting profession rests with the CPA exam. In the legal profession the screening process is in the law school admission system - not in the bar exam system.

I think a freshman in college will benefit from this book even more than a junior or senior. This book is not just about passing the CPA exam like the title suggests. It is really about getting the CPA license, and a college freshman that wants to be a CPA some day should be very interested in what he or she will have to do to get that license. This book will tell them.

I would have liked the book better if it had not tried to make the CPA license sound so impressive. Sure, I'm very proud that I passed the CPA exam, but being a CPA isn't anything special. The guys that make the money in the corporate world are the guys with a sales background or financial analysts that rise up through the mergers and acquisitions departments. CPAs rarely become CEOs. If they are lucky they might become a CFO. Furthermore, all the time and effort required to maintain a CPA license is not worth it. But if you major in accounting in college, then you owe it to yourself to at least put the icing on your college degree by passing the CPA exam. To not do so would be like going to law school, graduating, and not passing a bar exam. 5 stars!

You Can Pass the CPA Exam : Get Motivated!.......2006-03-10

I enjoy reading this book. This book arrived in excellent condition in a timely and orderly fashion.
I will use Amazon to order CD's and/or DVD's in the future.

Good resource, a little outdated.......2006-02-27

I am about 3 quarters through this book. I plan on sitting for my first section in July. The book was obviously written just as the computer based version began... The book eludes to some things that may have changed in 2005 with the exam. This book is not for someone who has already mapped out a plan for studying. Although some of it is redundant and obvious. I have found some information to be valuable. I think it was worth the price.

Don' read.......2006-01-30

This book is out dated. All the information contained within it, is based on the old paper exams and not the new computer version. If they revise the book I would strongly incourage it, but until then stay away.

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