CPA Exam Secrets Study Guide

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How to Pass the Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination, using our easy step-by-step CPA test study guide, without weeks and months of endless studying...

Dear Friend,

On a beautiful late spring afternoon, this past year, a young woman received the devastating news. She had just gotten back her result on the CPA test. It was not what she had hoped for. In fact, it was not even close to the expectations she had considering her past experience and educational background.

She had failed.

Then she remembered her friends and felt even worse. She did not look forward to having to tell them the embarrassing news, especially after she had boasted that it was no big deal. She had been procrastinating about taking the exam because she hated standardized tests, and this only confirmed her hatred.

"What will I do now?" she thought with dismay, slowly realizing the harsh reality of her predicament and its upsetting implications on her future.

How to Solve the Problem

Unfortunately, this hypothetical situation occurs all the time. Someone thought they were going to breeze through the examination, told all their friends, made plans for their future, and then got an embarrassing reality check from the CPA test.

The Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination is quite simply an objective assessment of a test taker's requisite foundation of knowledge and skills.

CPA test scores are used by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as a uniform standard of qualification. While it may not be fair, all of a person's plans for the future may be dependent upon needing a certain CPA test score.

That is the whole purpose of the CPA Exam Secrets study guide: to give test takers the keys to understand how to succeed on the CPA test.

Our CPA Test Study Guide Is Unlike Any Other

If you'd like to get the CPA test score you deserve, to quit worrying about whether your score on the CPA test is good enough, and to beat the test taking game so you can become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), then this might be the most important message you read this year.

Our comprehensive study guide for the Uniform CPA Examination is written by our test experts, who painstakingly researched the topics and the concepts that you need to know to do your best on the CPA test. Our original research into the Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination, offered by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), reveals the specific content areas and the essential skills that are critical for you to know on the CPA test. We've taken the information and developed a study guide that is guaranteed to help you be successful on the CPA test.

The Exclusive Test Taking Techniques

• Learn why, when, and how to guess to your advantage. Many test takers use exactly the wrong strategy, but you can avoid the pitfalls with the help of our standardized test experts.
• Why answers that sound correct are often the very ones that are wrong and how to tell the difference between the right answer and the many clever-sounding traps set for you by the test writers.
• Our benchmark method for deciding which of the answer choices you should pick.
• What to do about the tough questions that you have no clue how to answer. Don't just give up, use the advice we offer to make sure you give yourself the best chance of getting the right answer.
• Learn how to group your answer choices into families that often narrows down the pool of correct answers. This is a quick way to immediately eliminate one or two of the answer choices and increase your odds of getting the question right.

Before we go any further, let us clarify what CPA Exam Secrets is not. It is not a stale rehash of all of the things you have already learned in the past.

CPA Exam Secrets is our exclusive collection of the tips and the information that we have specially selected to give you the best results on the CPA test for the least time spent studying. It's written in everyday language and is easy to use.

We cover the essential skills necessary to do well on the CPA test, plus comprehensive reviews covering the Auditing & Attestation, Business Environment & Concepts, Financial Accounting & Reporting, and Regulation exams individually.

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In summary, here's what you get:

When you buy CPA Exam Secrets, it includes:

The 5 Secret Keys to CPA Exam Success

• Plan Big, Study Small
• Make Your Studying Count
• Practice the Right Way
• Pace Yourself
• Have a Plan for Guessing

The Comprehensive General Strategy Review

• Read Carefully
• Contextual Clues
• Prefixes
• Hedge Words
• Switchback Words
• Face Value
• Answer Selection
• Eliminate Answers
• Avoid Fact Traps
• Extreme Statements
• Benchmark
• Predict the Answer
• Tough Questions
• Check Your Work
• Pace Yourself
• Don’t Rush
• Keep Moving

The Comprehensive Auditing & Attestation Review

• Auditing Objectives and Guidelines
• The Basics
• Reports on Audited Financial Statements
• Subsequent Events
• Subsequent Discovery of Facts
• Omitted Audit Procedure
• Reporting on Other Information
• Other Engagements, Reports and Accounting Services
• Compliance and Review
• Reporting on Comparative Financial Statements
• Review of Interim Financial Information
• Letter for Underwriters
• Attest Engagements
• Auditing Objectives and Guidelines
• Planning and Supervision
• Governmental Auditing
• Consideration of Internal Control
• Internal Control Communications
• Transaction Cycles
• Information Technology
• Audit Sampling
• Evidential Matters
• Evidential Procedures
• Miscellaneous Items
• Financial Ratios
• Liquidity Ratios
• Activity Ratios
• Profitability Ratios
• Investor Ratios
• Financial Coverage Ratios
• Financial Activity Ratios

The Comprehensive Business Environment & Concepts Review

• Partnership
• Corporations
• Sole Proprietorship
• Microeconomics
• Demand
• Supply
• Market Equilibrium
• Cost of Production
• Production
• Macroeconomics
• Aggregate Demand and Supply
• Business Cycles
• Economic Measures
• Monetary Policy
• International Trade
• Foreign Exchange Rate
• Industry Analysis
• Developing and Implementing Strategies
• Characteristics of Computer Systems
• Internet
• Financial Management
• Risk Management and Capital Budgeting
• Performance Measures

The Comprehensive Financial Accounting & Reporting Review

• Revenue Recognition
• Long-Term Construction Contracts
• Leases
• Inventories
• Changing Prices
• Depreciable Assets and Depreciation
• Long-Term Liabilities
• Stockholders' Equity
• Foreign Currency
• Earnings Per Share
• Statement of Cash Flows
• Income Taxes
• Partnerships
• Personal Financial Statements
• Changing Prices
• Business Combinations
• Equity
• Consolidated Financial Statements
• Intercompany Transactions
• Combined Financial Statements

The Comprehensive Regulation Review

• Filing Status
• Exemptions
• Gross Income
• Capital Gains and Losses
• Adjustments and Deductions
• Tax Calculations and Credits
• Other Taxes
• Tax Depreciation, Depletion, and Amortization
• Other Items
• General Information
• Modified Accruals
• Not-For-Profit Organizations
• Governmental Reporting
• Partnership Taxation
• Estate, Trust, and Gift Taxation
• S Corporations
• C Corporations
• Exempt Organizations
• Product Costing
• Budgets
• Variances
• Cost Accounting Systems
• Absorption and Variable Costing
• Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships
• Joint Costs
• Capital Budgeting

plus all of the other special tips and secrets we have included to help you prepare for the exam.

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Since we know it's 100% to your benefit to use our study guide, we want to further encourage you by also including the following with your order:

• Bonus One: Study Skills

  The way to get the test score that you deserve is by proper preparation. The best preparation includes both knowing what to study and how to study. Our CPA Exam Secrets study guide will teach you what you need to know, but our Study Skills bonus will show you HOW to use the information to be successful on the CPA test. The ability to learn faster will accelerate the progress you make as you study for the test.

• Bonus Two: How to Overcome Test Anxiety

  Do you get really nervous the day before important tests? If so, you could be suffering from a mild form of what's known as test anxiety. The report we include gives you some of the latest important research into test anxiety, including our exclusive tips on how to make the test-taking experience as stress-free as possible while maximizing the score potential you have.

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CPA Exam Secrets covers all 4 sections: Auditing & Attestation + Business Environment & Concepts + Financial Accounting & Reporting + Regulation

By Jay Willis
This Page Last Updated: 11/13/2024