IPassTheCPAExam.com is celebrating its 1st year anniversary!
Thanks to your support (and your understanding when I am really behind in answering your questions…), this site has now visited by ~1,000 visitors per day.
In order to show my appreciation to all of you including my potential readers, I have compiled a guide that helps you choose and pick your CPA review course in one convenient book.
Introducing… CPA Review Course Comparison
As the name suggests, this is my attempt to reveal everything I know about the top 10 CPA review courses after many hours of research, talking to industry people as well as getting a lot of feedback from my very helpful readers for the past year.
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Congratulations for the first year success! Thank you Stephanie for providing such great resources for those wanting to pass the CPA exams.
Thanks & Congract/s for sharing vast knowledge about cpa exams.
Hi Michael and Habeeb,
Thanks for your kind words. Hope it helps and best of luck! Stephanie
Numerous items have changed since last passing a portion of the Exam and study guides, as they were, are FAR from helpful.
You are are almost better off to do it on your own, 41 years of experience and numerous endorsement letters prove it!
You are right Jepaon – a lot of things have changed, and understandably the study guides are still figuring out the new format and content of the 2011 exam.
But then, statistics have shown that <50% candidates pass in general while for those who take (selective) CPA review courses the passing rate is almost doubled. For me personally, if I were to rely just on my college coursework and experience for this test, I don’t think I would have passed.
I am sure everyone has different view and I envy you that you don’t need to get one of these expensive courses for your preparation, but for people like me I have found it useful.
cheers,
Stephanie
hello stephanie,
I have completed 3 yrs bachelors degree in acct. and want to do CPA here in US. I know that we have get our education records / transcripts reviewed but could you confirm the below
1. Do I need to first register with delaware CPA board and then send my marksheets for review?
2. Or do I get my transcripts reviewed by FACS first and then register with the Delaware board?
Please advise.
Hi Smitha,
When you send in your marksheets to FACS they ask you where you want to apply, so basically you’ve got to have a decision then (you can pick more than one state, but it costs more). In other words, you can do it together. That’s what I did. Stephanie
For other related questions please go to this page on foreign credential evaluation. Thanks.
Hi Stepahnie!
I have already signed up for Becker review, since I also need an accounting credit… BUT I think I should complement that review with the books from another publisher [given my particular class background] – I study best on my own, reading and doing summaries from a book, and I hope the Becker practice materials are enough to familiarize myself with the exam format.
From your multiple articles I understand that Wiley offers good practice questions/simulations, but their books are too wordy… You state Kaplan is even worse than Wiley – book wise ‘an encyclopedia’; I see no definitive comment on Bisk’s books (just that it is repetitive with other materials, but nothing about the books on their own)… Gleim doesn’t sell the books alone and I really didn’t want to spend more than $30-40ish after having paid Becker… I already bookmarked the CPA Review For Free website, but I would prefer to study the bulk of the material away from the computer.
Any idea which review books would be best – money wise?
Thanks for your time and all your advice!
Hi Amanda,
I think you can just get a Wiley or Gleim sofware CD (not the text book, but the practice question), target to work on all of them and repeat the ones you did wrong, and you are all set!
Good luck,
Stephanie
I would like to buy a cpa review course. please advice which is good
Hi Rukhsana,
While I generally recommend Yaeger CPA, people have different study styles and preference. So it’s best you can check out this page on top 10 CPA exam review course comparison which evaluates the pros and cons of each.
Hope it helps!
Stephanie
Dear all,
I am in the process of streamlining the process of replying to your questions and comments… and I am trying something new by using Facebook-powered comment box which is located right after each article.
If you have a question, please go back up and drop a note there. Thank you! Stephanie