kraykova wrote: danasha wrote: I posted my question a few days ago and never got a response! Can someone please answer me? Where do you study for COSO questions? The COSO.org website? I don't really see what I should be reading on the website. Where did you go! ANY ADVICE!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!! Hi danasha, I used the WILEY 2011 update - it's about $20 on amazon and it has the COSO framework and about 30 sample questions. Also the Wiley 2011 testbank CD has internal control questions. Hope this helps!

Thank you Kraykova for responding to me! Yea, I have Wiley already. I thought there was something extra I could use since this didn't seem to be sufficient enough. When I got to the exam, there was nothing even similar to the questions I studied. I see ppl talk about the COSO website but I didn't see anything in particular. Thanks for your help tho!

Danasha - It's not like in school where an instructor gives you a specific reading assignment and you can be confident the questions will come from it.  With COSO you have to build a general awareness and understanding over time, not just cram certain key facts that will be tested in the MCQs.  I read COSO.org and stuff on AICPA.org for the several months leading up to my tests, as well as complianceweek.com and other industry journals, whenever I had free time.  It really helped with a lot of the specific questions that coincidentally happened to be on my BEC test.  This is how it will be for the first few windows since the material is still relatively new.  Part of the reason they added the BEC section was to incorporate information not typically covered by entry-level accountants in order to force them (us) to broaden our horizons.  It's not possible just to be accounting "drones" any more; more business understanding is required in order to pass the CPA exam.  Surprisingly, this helps the older candidates.  The people I know who didn't pass BEC were young.  Maybe that's just anecdotal but it seemed noticeable to me.  The more years of experience, the more familiarity with BEC info and concepts.  (The opposite seemed true in FAR.)