Comments on: With Or Without You? Psyching Out The CPA Exam

By: CPA requirements

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Guest Post @ re: The Auditors | CPA Exam Blog - ANOTHER71.com — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:09:01 +0000

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By: C College

C College — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:51:10 +0000

Post 16:
“As the father of three young boys, I could not look them in the eye and tell them to never quit if I myself had thrown in the towel and walked away from the CPA exam.” Seriously? You wouldn’t be able to look them in the eye…. I hadn’t signed up my username yet, but that’s my post. You can tell from the scathing sarcasm.

As for anonymity, I’ve never understood that attack. That’s the whole point of allowing comments on a blog, no? #1 – I’m not interested in people knowing who I am, and I don’t think it matters, frankly. My thoughts are all that matter for this blog. I’ll post them, sometimes they strike a chord with other people and get a response, which sometimes turns into a healthy dialogue, and sometimes not. Obviously something in my comments hit home with you and others, and we had a decent dialogue going for a bit, at least until we got into the personal attacks. #2 – People are more honest when they’re anonymous. And by being more honest, we can facilitate some real discussion (sometimes). I’m honestly not trying to be a “big man” (big leap on assigning me a gender, by the way, but I guess I don’t mind), I’m just writing my opinions in the forum Francine provides to people like us for writing opinions.

One last point. When you write “But we’re all proud that you passed the CPA” and “made comments about how stupid this post is hasn’t taken the CPA.” – The CPA (exam, I have to assume you meant, unless you literally passed the CPA… which I probably do most mornings during my commute to work.). It’s really annoying and petty when others constantly feel the need to correct minor grammatical inconsistencies in your posts, don’t you think? For example, you also missed a comma after “OK” in post #31, and another one after “says”, and you should have begun your quote with a lower-case “n” in parentheses, since it’s in the middle of a sentence, and of course your comma after “this” really should be a semi-colon (super, super annoying, huh?)……

By: Tien

Tien — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:21:44 +0000

Great post Jeff and congratulations on passing the exam!

By: PassByCMAS

PassByCMAS — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:33:12 +0000

*that should have read “see a figure on this” on the 3rd line down.*

By: PassByCMAS

PassByCMAS — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:32:12 +0000

OK I’ve read and re-read your original 2 posts, C College. At no point in either of them do you say anything which remotely says “Not passing the CPA is fine, and (is) nothing to be ashamed of.” All you said was that you passed it easily, and that you don’t think SAT and GPA have anything to do with passing the CPA (I’d like nothing more than to see a on this, I’m guessing there’s a strong correlation, but that’s beside the point). So if pretending like you were delivering a motivating message for those who don’t have their CPA is what’s going to make you feel good, then that’s fine.

It takes a big man to stand there in complete anonymity and make fun of someone who sticks his neck out in an effort to possibly motivate a few people. So you weren’t motivated by his article. So what? Why would an 8 year CPA come onto an article about taking the CPA exam and complain it wasn’t the right kind of motivation anyway? Not everything is about you and your special circumstance. But we’re all proud that you passed the CPA, and didn’t seem to care one way or another how it went. You’ve nonchalantly won your way into our hearts. Now go away.

By: C College

C College — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:51:50 +0000

That’s the funny thing, I’m not an accounting rockstar, never made it rain anything. I was a decent student, made dean’s list a few times at a pretty good school, was 2-rated throughout my career at a Big 4 firm. But I understood all along that the CPA was a ball-buster and required a ton of studying. I never considered “giving it the old college try” and having any chance at passing. At the same time, I never had to “psych myself up” for it, and I’d never think less of myself if I hadn’t passed. I never considered my successes a “beacon of hope” for others, and I never doled out advice like “become a better test taker”. And I hoped to make the point that NOT passing the CPA is fine, and nothing to be ashamed of.

Sorry, I can’t be as entertaining as you’d hoped. I was just trying to make a couple points.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:27:52 +0000

CCollege…you should write a counter-post to this…about how you’re a hardcore accounting rockstar…maybe even a GAAP Gangsta who “makes it rain” with 99’s on the CPA (Exam)…whatever you want your angle to be. I bet it’ll be a big hit, for sure.

It will be a nice compliment to my “puppy dogs and ice cream” cry-fest.

By: PassByCMAS

PassByCMAS — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:13:16 +0000

Sigh. You didn’t say you studied for any of them, just that you passed every part you studied for. Pay attention.

By: C College

C College — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:32:06 +0000

- I’m sorry if my abbreviation of “CPA” for “CPA Exam” confused you. I assumed most readers would understand the abbreviation, but I’ll be more specific in the future so that you are not confused.

- Taking a 4-part test three times, and passing the parts you study for each time, does not equate to passing 3 parts out of 4.

- Similarly, it would be incorrect to assume that I took 12 “testlets”, since the state in which I took the CPA EXAM allows you to take as few as 2 parts each time.

- Since you’re so interested in my CPA status, I’ve been licensed for 8 years. So it would be unreasonable to infer that I was 0 for 12.

- Sharing my CPA EXAM experience is relevant to a blog about the CPA EXAM, and relevant as a response to your post. You “guaranteed” that all of the people mocking the simplicity of the blog never took the exam, which is untrue. I took it, I studied, and I passed.

- My point in mocking your SAT scores and GPA is that they have very little to do with passing the CPA EXAM, which is the point of the blog in the first place. Also, your post smacked of bragging. Your score on a test that you took as an 17 year-old high school student has very little correlation to passing a professional licensing exam 5 to 10 years (?) later, so why even mention it? The only reason to mention it, to me, is to brag. You’ll notice I never implied that I was brilliant (never mentioned my SAT scores or GPA or my IQ or how many questions I can get right on Jeopardy), only that I was able to pass the CPA EXAM by studying very hard.