Happy Thursday!

Good morning! Here's a little reading material for you all while you anxiously await scores from the Jan/Feb 2011 testing window.Despite the messy wintery weather (although it’s actually Spring) today is a good day.  I have semi-new outlook on the CPA exam and life in general.  This is probably because I am not immersed into Becker textbooks and software trying to cram as much knowledge into my narrow little head as possible—at least for the time being.  Having one exam under my belt is a pretty good feeling although I now know that the clock has begun ticking for me to pass the remaining parts.  I just wanted to share with you all a few quotes that really resonate with the experience of preparing, taking, and dealing with the results of the CPA exam.  These quotes speak for themselves, and really hit home.  You don’t have to be a genius to pass the CPA exam.  This is an exam that tests your will power and your dedication.  With enough time and effort put it, a 75 is most definitely achievable!  Have a great day, and an even better Friday & weekend.  I know I won’t—I will be working through this busy tax season, late nights and Saturdays.  At least I am not a partner yet, saving me from working on Sundays as well!

Quotes of the day

            

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~Ralph   Waldo Emerson

           

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.  ~William    Feather

           

Consider the postage stamp:  its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.  ~Josh Billings

           

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you   already did.  ~Newt Gingrich

DUN DUN DUN . . . . .

Late yesterday the AICPA released a little over 9,000 scores to NASBA.  This morning, upon arriving to work, I anxiously navigated to NJ's NASBA website.  As I put in my information and clicked submit, I was shocked and scared to see that a score was posted, and that I wasn't faced with the "There are no scores available for this section" little phrase, the one I have been tormented with the past two weeks of my incessant checking.  As my luck would have it, to make the situation more suspenseful, my cursor was over the 2nd number of my score, and all I could see at first glance was a 7! .... My hands shaking, I jerked the mouse and was about to accept defeat yet again, when I saw a magical number 9. Yes, I received a 79! I am so thrilled to have FAR under my belt!  This was my third go at it and I couldn't be happier!  I've been barely able to concentrate all day, as I now keep refreshing the score page awaiting my AUD results from which I took February 1st.  Those should be out this week or next.  I am apprehensive, per usual, of my performance on the audit section, but time will tell how I did my first time around.  I keep you all posted!  After tax season I must tackle REG and BEC.  Good luck to you all! May the good scores keep on rolling!

Sooo...

It's been almost two months since I've last posted, and due to high demand, I'M BAAAACK!  To quickly update you all... I did not pass FAR!!!! I got my results the week before Christmas and a depressing 72! Can you believe it?  In a way its bittersweet, knowing I came so close.  But to know that I have to go through it all again, and learn IFARS is quite disheartening.  Oh well, nothing comes easy and in the end it will be most certainty worth my hard work and continued effort.  I am starting Becker Review for Audit tomorrow and have the Audit exam scheduled for Feb 19th.  I have been contemplating and seeking advise on when to retake FAR due to the new material that will be tested and my already schedule audit review and exam.  I am leaning towards taking the exam around Feb. 25th.  I think that's a Friday, and the day before my birthday.  I hope I can squeeze all of this in the next two months!  HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL :) best of luck with the CPA in 2011 and on!

I will be back, when I can manage to pry myself from my Becker Study Materials :)