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Unveiling the Best: Top Ranked CPA Review Courses for Your Success

Introduction:

Becoming a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is a prestigious achievement, but passing the CPA exam can be a challenging journey. One of the keys to success lies in choosing the right CPA review course that aligns with your learning style and exam preparation needs. With a plethora of options available, it can be overwhelming to select the best one. In this article, we present a comprehensive list of top ranked CPA review courses that have garnered acclaim for their effectiveness, comprehensive study materials, and high pass rates, empowering you to make an informed decision on your path to CPA success.

Becker CPA Review:

Becker has long been recognized as a leading name in CPA exam preparation. Their review course offers an extensive array of study materials, including video lectures, practice exams, and adaptive learning technology. Their personalized study plan helps candidates focus on areas that require the most attention, making it a preferred choice for many aspiring CPAs.

Wiley CPAexcel:

Wiley CPAexcel boasts a high pass rate and is known for its comprehensive study materials. Their course includes thousands of practice questions, detailed explanations, and engaging video lectures. The bite-sized lessons are perfect for candidates who prefer a more flexible study schedule.

Roger CPA Review:

Roger CPA Review is renowned for its energetic and engaging video lectures that keep candidates motivated throughout their preparation journey. Their course features in-depth explanations, interactive quizzes, and real-time practice exams, all of which contribute to its high success rate.

Surgent CPA Review:

Surgent's adaptive learning technology sets it apart from other review courses. It customizes study plans based on each candidate's strengths and weaknesses, ensuring an efficient and effective study process. Their extensive test bank and frequent content updates keep candidates well-prepared for any exam changes.

Gleim CPA Review:

Gleim CPA Review offers a comprehensive study approach with a focus on practice questions. Their course includes a vast question bank, audio lectures, and detailed textbooks to cover all exam topics thoroughly.

UWorld Roger CPA Review:

UWorld Roger CPA Review combines the expertise of Roger CPA Review with UWorld's renowned test preparation resources. The course includes over 3,800 multiple-choice questions and detailed answer explanations to reinforce candidates' understanding of key concepts.

Yaeger CPA Review:

Yaeger CPA Review is a popular choice among candidates who prefer a more personal touch. Their course includes one-on-one coaching sessions with instructors, providing personalized support and guidance to boost candidates' confidence.

Fast Forward Academy CPA Review:

Fast Forward Academy offers a user-friendly platform with video lectures, practice exams, and progress tracking tools. Their "SmartAdapt" technology ensures that candidates focus on areas where they need the most improvement, optimizing study time.

Gleim CPA Review:

Gleim's Adaptive Learning System tailors study plans to each candidate's unique needs, making it an efficient choice for exam preparation. Their "Task-Based Simulations" prepare candidates for the simulation-style questions they will encounter on the CPA exam.

Surgent CPA Review:

Surgent's personalized study plan, known as "A.S.A.P. Technology," identifies candidates' weak areas and delivers targeted study material to improve performance. Their "ReadySCORE" feature estimates a candidate's readiness for the exam based on their progress.

Selecting the right CPA review course is a crucial step towards achieving success in the CPA exam. Each candidate's learning style and preferences are unique, and considering these factors can help identify the best fit among the top-ranked CPA review courses available. Whether you prefer adaptive learning technology, engaging video lectures, or extensive practice questions, there is a review course that meets your needs. With the guidance and study materials offered by these top-ranked courses, you can embark on your CPA journey with confidence and increase your chances of passing the exam on your first attempt. Remember, success in the CPA exam is not solely determined by the review course; consistent effort, dedication, and disciplined study habits are equally important to achieve your goal of becoming a Certified Public Accountant.

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FAR is Hard, and That’s Okay

The FAR section on the CPA Exam is hard. Don’t believe me? Just ask the pass rates.

The fact is, people don’t pass FAR as often as they pass all the other sections. For some people, quickly working through complex calculations really hits their sweet spot. Others, not so much.

Me? When I first began studying for FAR, I was by no means a die-hard FAR fan (if any such people exist). For starters, the review textbook is pretty darn big, and I dreaded cracking it open. Once I did, what consistently tripped me up was the double-entry system – how the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statements all work together. One transaction can affect multiple financial statements, and it can be difficult to account for all the cascading effects, especially when you’re under a time crunch.

While discussing exactly that with one of my mentors, she asked me, “If you don’t know the principles tested in FAR, how are you going to figure out a company’s earnings so you can help them file their tax return? How are you going to audit a company’s financial statements? How are you going to determine investment cash flows so your client can make a purchase decision based on NPV?”

She struck a nerve. I was thinking about FAR in entirely the wrong way. Sure, it’s just one section of four on the CPA Exam, but it’s the most important one: FAR is the accounting part of the exam.

REG tests taxes and business law. Definitely important subjects a CPA needs to know, but it doesn’t test debits and credits and journal entries (aka, accounting).

BEC tests economics, finance, IT, and cost accounting. All areas that a CPA needs knowledge of to provide advice to a client or employer, but again, it doesn’t test journal entries (ditto the aka).

AUD tests the planned performance of procedures to obtain and evaluate financial statements. Clearly, an auditor needs to know financial accounting to evaluate its accuracy, but again, AUD doesn’t test debits and credits directly.

The other three sections are important, sure, but as far as core job skills go, you need to be able to do the accounting to be a CPA. Accountants must account.

Feeling motivated by this epiphany, I knuckled down, followed the recommendations of my Gleim SmartAdapt course, and took every practice quiz and task-based simulation it threw at me until I knew I could pass.

It was hard. It was frustrating when I failed practice quizzes, and I failed a few. But I did it. I passed FAR the first time, and I’m so glad I did. The only thing I can think of that’s worse than taking FAR is taking FAR more than once.

But the thing is, as arduous as FAR was to pass, it really is applicable to the work I’m doing right now. As a CPA, I need to know (and actually use) just about everything FAR tests at pretty much all times. At any given moment, I should be able to pass FAR all over again because it really is that important.

I don’t want any of you to have to retake FAR, so I’ll run down a few things you should know about the most brutal section on the CPA Exam. Prepare for knowledge.

FAR basics: Let me introduce you to FAR

FAR is all about:

Financial;

Accounting; and

Reporting.

In short, FAR is where the accounting happens on the CPA Exam. This means FAR has math – so much math. Making it even harder is the fact that it comes with its own bespoke set of rules: GAAP, which is a highly structured, all-encompassing standard. In the CPA Exam Blueprints, the AICPA says, “Candidates should assume that each question applies to a for-profit business entity reporting under U.S. GAAP unless otherwise stated …”

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So you really have to know the ins and outs of this vast standard, plus be able to complete a wide range of calculations. FAR really tests you to make sure you’re ready for the rough and tumble world of a CPA.

FAR content

FAR consists of four Content Areas, which are listed and weighted below:

Content

Percentage

Conceptual Framework, Standard-Setting, and Financial Reporting

25-35%

Select Financial Statement Accounts

30-40%

Select Transactions

20-30%

State and Local Governments

5-15%

If you want more specific information about the exam content, check out our article on the CPA Exam Blueprints. It dives deeper into what’s on the exam.

But as you can see from the high-level areas, most of the FAR exam consists of Financial Statement Accounts, which means this is where you apply your practical skills in accounting. Remember, this section is about doing the accounting, not memorizing all the extra things that go with it, like regulations, information security, etc.

FAR structure

FAR has five testlets: two testlets of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and three testlets of task-based simulations (TBSs). There are 66 MCQs and eight TBSs. MCQs are one-half of your grade and TBSs are the other half, so you can’t afford to skimp on studying for either.

The exam includes pretest and operational questions. Operational questions are questions that count toward your total exam score, and pretest questions are questions that don’t. Pretest questions are the AICPA’s way of giving new questions a trial run, and they’ll eventually be made into operational questions if they meet certain statistical requirements. You won’t be able to distinguish between operational and pretest questions, so don’t waste time trying. Just approach all questions as if they’ll count toward your score.

What score do you need to pass?

Scoring for the CPA Exam is fully automated, so computers grade both the FAR, MCQ, and TBS testlets. As with every CPA Exam section, you have to score a minimum of 75 to pass. Note that a score of 75 is not the same as 75%. Each MCQ is weighted according to its difficulty, which the AICPA establishes during the “pretest,” and you can get partial credit for simulations.

How did I pass FAR?

During my harrowing journey to pass FAR, I discovered three secrets to passing the first time: understand the section, pick Gleim as your review provider, and be willing to work hard.

Okay, so those aren’t really secrets as much as they’re advice your professor might give you. But they were all vital for me to pass FAR the first time.

FAR pass rates have been declining since 2013. 2017 saw its lowest cumulative pass rate since the AICPA began publishing pass rates for the computerized CPA Exam in 2006.

It’s more important than ever to be the best of the best. Gleim can help you get there. Please, for the sake of your sanity, don’t get stuck taking FAR over and over again. Gleim CPA Review has helped candidates pass over a million CPA exams – choose Gleim and you will overcome FAR the first time. Check out our free CPA Exam guide to get started today.

The post FAR is Hard, and That’s Okay appeared first on Going Concern.

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FAR is Hard, and That’s Okay

The FAR section on the CPA Exam is hard. Don’t believe me? Just ask the pass rates.

The fact is, people don’t pass FAR as often as they pass all the other sections. For some people, quickly working through complex calculations really hits their sweet spot. Others, not so much.

Me? When I first began studying for FAR, I was by no means a die-hard FAR fan (if any such people exist). For starters, the review textbook is pretty darn big, and I dreaded cracking it open. Once I did, what consistently tripped me up was the double-entry system – how the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statements all work together. One transaction can affect multiple financial statements, and it can be difficult to account for all the cascading effects, especially when you’re under a time crunch.

While discussing exactly that with one of my mentors, she asked me, “If you don’t know the principles tested in FAR, how are you going to figure out a company’s earnings so you can help them file their tax return? How are you going to audit a company’s financial statements? How are you going to determine investment cash flows so your client can make a purchase decision based on NPV?”

She struck a nerve. I was thinking about FAR in entirely the wrong way. Sure, it’s just one section of four on the CPA Exam, but it’s the most important one: FAR is the accounting part of the exam.

REG tests taxes and business law. Definitely important subjects a CPA needs to know, but it doesn’t test debits and credits and journal entries (aka, accounting).

BEC tests economics, finance, IT, and cost accounting. All areas that a CPA needs knowledge of to provide advice to a client or employer, but again, it doesn’t test journal entries (ditto the aka).

AUD tests the planned performance of procedures to obtain and evaluate financial statements. Clearly, an auditor needs to know financial accounting to evaluate its accuracy, but again, AUD doesn’t test debits and credits directly.

The other three sections are important, sure, but as far as core job skills go, you need to be able to do the accounting to be a CPA. Accountants must account.

Feeling motivated by this epiphany, I knuckled down, followed the recommendations of my Gleim SmartAdapt course, and took every practice quiz and task-based simulation it threw at me until I knew I could pass.

It was hard. It was frustrating when I failed practice quizzes, and I failed a few. But I did it. I passed FAR the first time, and I’m so glad I did. The only thing I can think of that’s worse than taking FAR is taking FAR more than once.

But the thing is, as arduous as FAR was to pass, it really is applicable to the work I’m doing right now. As a CPA, I need to know (and actually use) just about everything FAR tests at pretty much all times. At any given moment, I should be able to pass FAR all over again because it really is that important.

I don’t want any of you to have to retake FAR, so I’ll run down a few things you should know about the most brutal section on the CPA Exam. Prepare for knowledge.

FAR basics: Let me introduce you to FAR

FAR is all about:

Financial;

Accounting; and

Reporting.

In short, FAR is where the accounting happens on the CPA Exam. This means FAR has math – so much math. Making it even harder is the fact that it comes with its own bespoke set of rules: GAAP, which is a highly structured, all-encompassing standard. In the CPA Exam Blueprints, the AICPA says, “Candidates should assume that each question applies to a for-profit business entity reporting under U.S. GAAP unless otherwise stated …”

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So you really have to know the ins and outs of this vast standard, plus be able to complete a wide range of calculations. FAR really tests you to make sure you’re ready for the rough and tumble world of a CPA.

FAR content

FAR consists of four Content Areas, which are listed and weighted below:

Content

Percentage

Conceptual Framework, Standard-Setting, and Financial Reporting

25-35%

Select Financial Statement Accounts

30-40%

Select Transactions

20-30%

State and Local Governments

5-15%

If you want more specific information about the exam content, check out our article on the CPA Exam Blueprints. It dives deeper into what’s on the exam.

But as you can see from the high-level areas, most of the FAR exam consists of Financial Statement Accounts, which means this is where you apply your practical skills in accounting. Remember, this section is about doing the accounting, not memorizing all the extra things that go with it, like regulations, information security, etc.

FAR structure

FAR has five testlets: two testlets of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and three testlets of task-based simulations (TBSs). There are 66 MCQs and eight TBSs. MCQs are one-half of your grade and TBSs are the other half, so you can’t afford to skimp on studying for either.

The exam includes pretest and operational questions. Operational questions are questions that count toward your total exam score, and pretest questions are questions that don’t. Pretest questions are the AICPA’s way of giving new questions a trial run, and they’ll eventually be made into operational questions if they meet certain statistical requirements. You won’t be able to distinguish between operational and pretest questions, so don’t waste time trying. Just approach all questions as if they’ll count toward your score.

What score do you need to pass?

Scoring for the CPA Exam is fully automated, so computers grade both the FAR, MCQ, and TBS testlets. As with every CPA Exam section, you have to score a minimum of 75 to pass. Note that a score of 75 is not the same as 75%. Each MCQ is weighted according to its difficulty, which the AICPA establishes during the “pretest,” and you can get partial credit for simulations.

How did I pass FAR?

During my harrowing journey to pass FAR, I discovered three secrets to passing the first time: understand the section, pick Gleim as your review provider, and be willing to work hard.

Okay, so those aren’t really secrets as much as they’re advice your professor might give you. But they were all vital for me to pass FAR the first time.

FAR pass rates have been declining since 2013. 2017 saw its lowest cumulative pass rate since the AICPA began publishing pass rates for the computerized CPA Exam in 2006.

It’s more important than ever to be the best of the best. Gleim can help you get there. Please, for the sake of your sanity, don’t get stuck taking FAR over and over again. Gleim CPA Review has helped candidates pass over a million CPA exams – choose Gleim and you will overcome FAR the first time. Check out our free CPA Exam guide to get started today.

The post FAR is Hard, and That’s Okay appeared first on Going Concern.

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Why Should You Select the Gleim CPA Review

When you want to pass the CPA exam, considered to be the toughest certification in the finance and accounting field, you will need all the help that you can get from top-quality study materials that replicate the real exam scenario. This will help you to get the feel of the real exams and crack it on the first attempt.

Typically, when selecting a Review course, there are two things to focus on.

The first is the volume of course materials offered. The more the better as the scope for practice becomes much wider though you should take care that you do not spend much time on topics that you have mastery of and burn yourself out. The Access Until You Pass guarantee allows you to pace yourself out and learn at your convenience, an aspect that cannot be said of other courses.   

The second point to consider is the price of the materials which will not burn a hole in your pocket. In both instances, of all the Review courses on offer, the Gleim CPA Review is in the top bracket, ensuring that you get good value for money.

Let’s check the highlights of the Gleim CPA Review.

SmartAdapt Technology

Even though Gleim offers the maximum quantum of course materials, the SmartAdapt technology ensures that you do not have to wade through every chapter, even the ones you are confident about. At the start of every lesson, there are diagnostic questions, and based on the answers, SmartAdapt will tell you whether you should spend time on it or move on. This saves a lot of time and you become aware of your strengths and weaknesses while preparing for the CPA exam.

Top Features of the Gleim CPA Review

Multiple-choice practice questions are the foundation of any CPA Review course and Gleim offers a staggering 10,000 of them. You will never be short of fresh questions to answer when you choose the Gleim CPA Review.

Another huge advantage of Gleim is the 1300 plus task-based simulations. This makes for almost 50% of the real exam and hence your preparations get a boost here.

The two sections of Gleim which are very critical are the study sessions and the practice exams. The first gives you immediate feedback as soon as you answer a question while the other simulates the real exam by withholding the answers until you are through with a chapter. It not helps to evaluate the depth of the preparation but also your time management skills.

Finally, the Gleim CPA Review features two full-length practice questions, one to be taken 1-2 weeks before the exam based on which SmartAdapt technology will prepare a customized review checklist to practice just before the exam.

Considering all these benefits, the price of theGleim CPA Review is very reasonable, making it one of the most preferred CPA exam courses in the market.

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