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University of Florida #7 in U.S. News Accounting Ranking |
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CPA exam is a joke |
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09/20/1999 |
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I'm not sure what you'd make. Do you have any Big-5 salary info at all? Does anyone? I can't find much, most of what I see on the net is consulting-side info. BTW, is your degree a MAcc or MA or MBA or what? And how hard were the CPA exams? |
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I don't know anything about salaries, but if you study right for the CPA exam it's so easy that it's a joke. Very broad in that any topic is fair game, but very shallow in that they just want to see if you understand the fundamentals of that topic. I took multiple breaks during each session of the exam, and had half an hour to a full hour to spare at the end of each session. I think that the reason that so many people don't pass the whole thing on the first try is because they're told that it's unusual to do so and therefore they only push themselves to master enough information to pass a couple of sections and to acquire the minimum required score on the other sections. That dooms them before they ever start. It IS possible to pass the whole thing on the first attempt! Taking it a step further, it's ridiculous not to do so.
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