Any CPAs here? Need advice

[Dr Dre's ProductionSkills]

? http://catalog.gmu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=19&poid=17594&returnto=4105 <<<<<Not what my school says.

All students who wish to sit for the Uniform CPA Examination in Virginia are required to have completed 150 college-level credits, including at least 30 credits of accounting with courses in financial accounting, auditing, taxation, and management accounting; and at least 24 credits of non-accounting business courses.

its the same requirments pretty much

your bachleors in whatever is whats really important ... that cerificate is whats gonna get you a entry level job in acct though... i got the eqivalent of that with a aa at a jr college for whole lot less money...

 

[Dr Dre's ProductionSkills]

Not really. The only people that just enter info all day are clerks who really don't actually getting into the accounting process like that. Bookkeepers mostly record daily transactions to produce financial reports but its not really tossing information in templates and spitting out reports.

Accountants actually decipher data which is the point of producing the financial statements to begin with. Also a lot of accountants are actually financial analyst

someone is downplaying accounting to you But accounting is no walk in the park but people just dont have a sense of where the difficulty actually comes from and just get stuck in the thought of working with numbers.

honestly all of them told me they do the same processes basically 4 times a year aka 4 quarters in a finaancial calendar... cpa's only great attribute is that they sign odd on stuff and are responsible and liable foe what gets put out.. but most od them arent making any type of business decsicions based on that data .. its not their job... cost or mgr maybe ...

they bascially take the last quarters template replace it with new info and spit out reports... its pretty simple... same with cpa that are taxes... they jus entering info into templates... info gets spit out... now those cpa if they worth their weight in gold know how to service the client to get the most money back...

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

All students who wish to sit for the Uniform CPA Examination in Virginia are required to have completed 150 college-level credits, including at least 30 credits of accounting with courses in financial accounting, auditing, taxation, and management accounting; and at least 24 credits of non-accounting business courses.

its the same requirments pretty much

your bachleors in whatever is whats really important ... that cerificate is whats gonna get you a entry level job in acct though... i got the equivalent of that with at a jr college for whole lot less money...

My job pays for school and would pay for the certificate. The accounting credits would come from the certificate program. Only thing I'd worry about is the business courses but some have to be covered under my masters program curriculum.

 

[Dr Dre's ProductionSkills]

My job pays for school and would pay for the certificate. The accounting credits would come from the certificate program. Only thing I'd worry about is the business courses but some have to be covered under my masters program curriculum.

if your work pays for it then its all good... take it...

imo you can get all the credits you need to take or sit and be a cpa at a jr college.... here in cali the diff is huge... 45$unit vs. like 800 bucks a class at a cal state but same end result... the main thing you need to have is a bachelors in anyrthig

my work paid for all my stuff after my bachelors

i wanted to get a masters in acct... but it was too much 20k here in cali and it didnt really do anything as farr as get you a better job... if your in accounting.. basically cpa>>> bachelros or masters...

at that point its all about value... cause mothedfukk a school loan

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

if your work pays for it then its all good... take it...

imo you can get all the credits you need to take or sit and be a cpa at a jr college.... here in cali the diff is huge... 45$unit vs. like 800 bucks a class at a cal state but same end result... the main thing you need to have is a bachelors in anyrthig

my work paid for all my stuff after my bachelors

i wanted to get a masters in acct... but it was too much 20k here in cali and it didnt really do anything as farr as get you a better job... if your in accounting.. basically cpa>>> bachelros or masters...

at that point its all about value... cause mothedfukk a school loan

True. Ill look into jr colleges. Are u a cpa?

 

[Dr Dre's ProductionSkills]

True. Ill look into jr colleges. Are u a cpa?

not yet... gonna start taking tests in 2014....

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

not yet... gonna start taking tests in 2014....

How many tests do you have to take?

 

[Tres Leches]

How many tests do you have to take?

I believe its four different parts

 

[Dr Dre's ProductionSkills]

How many tests do you have to take?

4 and they are hard as fukk

everybody who i know thats a cpa says as hard as the bar exam

also... you pass one test then you have 18 months to pass the other three before u lose the credit of passing that first test ... so theres that too lol

 

[SmoothOperator88]

4 and they are hard as fukk

everybody who i know thats a cpa says as hard as the bar exam

also... you pass one test then you have 18 months to pass the other three before u lose the credit of passing that first test ... so theres that too lol

And if you fail one part you cant take it again for at least 3 months.

 

[aliG]

Accounting is easy as shyt. Now the CPA exam is a completely different beast.

 

[sakano]

Accounting math is not hard at all man. It's just remembering what goes where on balance sheet income statements and cash flow chart when it comes to financial accounting which is basically just reporting your finances for audit purposes or general bookkeeping

Managerial accounting is more useful if your going to be dealing with a companies internal numbers and trying to forecast budgets and then checking the variances with the actual sales numbers controlling costs knowing the quantity of raw materials to order and how to deal with overhead costs

But the math is simple it's the rules you have to remember that might put it higher on the difficulty chart... Finance math is higher on the scale difficulty but it's not engineering math no where near it

I hear that engineering math is the toughest

 

[Slystallion]

I hear that engineering math is the toughest

yeah you need to be good at calculus for it

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Still looking into this, brehs. I figure that getting a certificate in accounting will help land financial analyst jobs for me once my master's program is up. What yall think?

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Still looking into this, brehs. I figure that getting a certificate in accounting will help land financial analyst jobs for me once my master's program is up. What yall think?

I'm probably the only one going against the grain but I said fukk school and used this logic.

1. I don't want to work for people all my life
2. Accountants can eat well during tax season and you don't need to be a CPA to

So I decided to

1. Become an Enrolled Agent
2. Become a certified bookkeeper
3. Become a QuickBooks Pro Advisor

All 3 of these can be obtaining if less than a year and for less than a fraction of the cost of undergrad/grad school.

I'm doing taxes this year, obtaining clients and marketing myself setting things up for next season. I have a PTIN and EFIN. I started a business as a sole proprietor and got an EIN. I will have those 3 designations by the end of the summer and will be able to do just as much as a CPA when it comes to taxes. I can do bookkeeping and payroll as well. But again, I'm not trying to work for a big firm I would rather earn 6 figures working for myself and being in control than playing the corporate game. Either way good luck.