Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. Getting ready for the final week of REG is probably as close to a title fight I’ll get in this lifetime. I spend my days sneaking flashcards under my keyboard while I work, and night blasting my headphones to keep me awake long enough to crank out another set
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. Throughout the CPA exam, I have learned a great deal and developed a lot of good habits. I’ve tested my mettle and I have experienced the extreme highs of passing and the lows of repeated failure. If there is one lesson I could impart to all NINJAs, current and
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar WIlde I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot as I sit awake at night studying REG while simultaneously sweating out BEC results. While the idea of
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. Here we go again. The final week before BEC is upon me and I am feeling quite nervous. I have been trending well on my NINJA MCQs, but doubt is still there. Unfortunately, trying to prepare for an exam while working through the annual close and audit of a
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. The BEC exam is called the hot dog exam by some due to the content being a little bit of everything. I see it as the hot dog exam because you can consume a bunch of it without much effort. The ease of learning has helped keep the momentum
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. Speed bump, learning opportunity, whatever you want to call it, a failing score is still just that: a fail. The Audit results are in and I’m no closer to my CPA than I was 4 weeks ago- before the test. This sucks. With another fail of Audit, I am
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. Another exam sat for, another re-shuffling of priorities. Such is the life of a CPA candidate. I have completed round two with Audit, and am feeling slightly better about this attempt. I feel like a lot of the concepts were more familiar, and hopefully there will be an increase
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. The best birthday/Christmas gift I could receive this year is never having to take any kind of Audit exam again. With re-schedules and the first failure, I have now been studying this material for over 3 months. I am ready to put this in the rear view mirror. The
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. Just when you think you’ve got it all together, you end up realizing you have no clue how much time this exam takes. I was originally planning to take Audit this week, then I found out that work doesn’t really give a crap if you have to study, when
Joshua is a NINJA CPA blogger. Re-taking a test is the ultimate measuring stick of discipline. You have to learn how to tell that voice that says, “Oh, I read this before, I remember it” to shut the heck up. I have to remember that if I truly knew this stuff, I would be studying
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