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FAR - AUD - BEC - REG
As evidenced by my scores! REG is totally not hard if you had taken individual tax, corporate tax, and business law.
Financial is hard if you didn't take Advanced Accounting like I didn't.
Audit I thought was pretty hard and I still don't know how I passed. I think with audit a lot of it is memorization but you do have to understand audit evidence really well.
BEC I think is alright.
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Background: BS & MS, Accounting 6 years Corporate Accounting No tax, no public
Hardest to Easiest: 1. FARE (Score: 85) - the sheer amount of material was difficult to manage. It wasn't extremely difficult to master one chapter at a time, but it was difficult to put it all together without forgetting half of it. By the time you get to chapter 9, you have forgotten a lot of the first few chapters. Plus, Govt/NFP isn't something most of us do every day.
2. REG (88) - I have no tax experience and find business law boring. Again, since it has the second most # chapters, it seemed to be a little more difficult than BEC or AUD in terms of putting it all together.
3. AUD (89) - Some of the material was difficult, but overall it wasn't too hateful.
4. BEC (84) - I was the most confident in this section, but surprisingly scored the lowest. Cost Accounting was a little difficult to master, but I eventually got it nailed down. IT wasn't nearly as bad as most made it out to be.
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i'm on chapter 3 of 9 using becker studying for FARE..i always was afraid of FARE as being the most difficult and even the size of becker's text is very intimidating, but so far its not so bad
FAR..AUD..BEC..REG (i work in the tax field so REG was pretty manageable for me)
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