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Smart
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 21:06 \| IP Logged

Get ready to start learning how to scrape by on a CPA's salary !

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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 00:28 \| IP Logged

plsmkmecpa wrote:

From Jan 2009, I joined Becker in class study for CPA exams but my prep. was way too slow which I realize now and was able to pass my first exam in Jan of 2009, since then I managed to pass FAR, BEC and AUD but my 18 months window expired in July of 2011 and I could not pass REG within that window and my FAR score has expired.

I would just go ahead and try to knock out your remaining two exams as quickly as possible, if this is a field you still want to pursue. Sure, people get hired by CPA firms without having passed the CPA exam yet, but I'd definitely be a more confident applicant if I had passed it. I mean, what are else are you going to with your time? You could also try to get hired doing SOMETHING, anything, so that you'll at least avoid the stigma attached to being unemployed when future recruiters look at your resume.

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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 14:39 \| IP Logged

Jorge Stevenson wrote:

What can you do? Drop everything you're doing and get a job. And not just any job. If you want the CPA, you need a public accounting job. From this day forth, you need to milk your connections for everything they're worth. Talk to your friends, your girlfriend's friends, friends of friends, about the type of work you're looking for. Do they know anyone at Deloitte, PWC, Ernst & Young, KPMG, BDO Seidman, McGladrey, GT, etc. Ask them. Everybody knows somebody who works there. Ask to sit down with them for lunch. Tell them you're highly interested in public accounting and you think you'd make a great fit.

Stop studying. Most new associates with offers for public accounting firms have not even started studying for the CPA. Yet they have offers, and you don't. Start networking your ass off and stop with the useless studying.

Not true. There are states that do not require public accounting experience. As long as you work under an active licensed CPA performing general accounting work, you'll meet the work experience requirement. You only need to have attestation experience if you want to sign off on audit reports, which for the OP is highly unlikely.

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