Finished the CPA Exam!

[LinkA8A0A]

Congrats from another fellow CPA!

[ASBSECU E93]

Congrats - If I could go back, would sit for the exam...

any firm job prospects?

[w0ady]

Congrats! My little sis passed hers earlier this year as well. I know she had to retake one part a couple times.

[Joekerr]

Congrats - plan to continue working for a Big 4 or go down another path?

I spent 10 years at a Big 4, great experience, but not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Everyone is different though, and I know many who decided to stay.

CPA is great to have!

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

Congrats - plan to continue working for a Big 4 or go down another path?

I spent 10 years at a Big 4, great experience, but not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Everyone is different though, and I know many who decided to stay.

CPA is great to have!

Are you still in public or move to a private position?

[SunnyD]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

Everyone is different though, and I know many who decided to stay.

My condolences to them...

[1987E30M3]

Congrats Fellow CPA, burn your books for me

Originally Posted by K19BMW

So its been a long 8 months but I am finally done with the CPA Exams! I got my final score at 2am this morning and my heart just exploded when I saw I had passed. Just can't believe I am finally done!

I just wanted to say thank you to the e90post community in general. Everytime i would feel overwhelmed or stressed out I would come on here and read some of th many humorous or informative threads give my brain a break.

Anyway, time to throw a crazy party hahaaha

[parksjm7]

Congrats! "C"an't "P"ass "A"gain! but why would you need to again?? now enjoy the money like Peter Olinto says while playing football with P diddy

[K19BMW]

Originally Posted by ASBSECU E93

Congrats - If I could go back, would sit for the exam...

any firm job prospects?

Ya I got an offer at a small firm outside Boston. I start in 2 months!

Originally Posted by Joekerr

Congrats - plan to continue working for a Big 4 or go down another path?

I spent 10 years at a Big 4, great experience, but not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Everyone is different though, and I know many who decided to stay.

CPA is great to have!

Unfortunetly i applied too late in the season for a job at the Big 4 (even though i would have been ahead of most of the people in my incoming class becuz i would have all 4 exams done) so i figure i'll work at the small firm for 1-2 years and then go to the big 4 for 4-6 years and then maybe try and get a cfo job or something. I'm only 23 so i have time lol

Originally Posted by 1987E30M3

Congrats Fellow CPA, burn your books for me

I was hoping I could give my books away becuz i legit have $600 worth of study material (notecards and final review books) that unopened and still in there plastic wrap but i guess you arent allowed to give that stuff to other people :/

Originally Posted by parksjm7

Congrats! "C"an't "P"ass "A"gain! but why would you need to again?? now enjoy the money like Peter Olinto says while playing football with P diddy

Hahaha good ole peter olinto

[fcman]

Congrats. So many accountants on this board, kinda crazy. What are us software engineers supposed to drive?

[SunnyD]

Originally Posted by fcman

Congrats. So many accountants on this board, kinda crazy. What are us software engineers supposed to drive?

If you were in silicon valley, then I'd say a Prius

[fcman]

Originally Posted by SunnyD

If you were in silicon valley, then I'd say a Prius

LOL, half of my coworkers have moved on to Leafs at this point. To be honest I've thought about it, but since GA is getting rid of the $5000 tax credit it's not going to be worth it.

[harveyrspecter]

Congrats mate. Didn't know so many on this board were accountants!

[K19BMW]

From now on instead of saying goodbye I'm gonna say "Calc-U-Later".
Passing the CPA Exam has given me that right

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

Are you still in public or move to a private position?

I decided to work internally for a public company - joined their financial reporting team. Basically do the F/S and some of the more complex accounting for them (they have a separate group that does the day to day normal transactions).

Its a lot better than working at the Firm. But I may leave them at some point to work for myself...now that my son has been born (7 months), I don't love the idea of being over an hour commute away from him. And where I live there are very few public companies that would need me.

[Rickygst]

good job and congrats, it is a tough exam, I know because I took it also

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

I decided to work internally for a public company - joined their financial reporting team. Basically do the F/S and some of the more complex accounting for them (they have a separate group that does the day to day normal transactions).

Its a lot better than working at the Firm. But I may leave them at some point to work for myself...now that my son has been born (7 months), I don't love the idea of being over an hour commute away from him. And where I live there are very few public companies that would need me.

Gotcha. All my wife's clients offer her jobs, but she loves doing public accounting. She likes the diversity of her clients. Her firm is a largeish regional firm and have a much better work life balance than Big 4.

No chance of them being progressive enough to set you up to work from home a few days a week?

[alz0rz]

GJ OP!!!.... My wife is going through her actuarial exams (4/5 now)... which I understand are much harder than CPA (tongue in cheek reference to what actuaries think of accountants).. but I can relate how she feels after her successes to what yours may be after putting in all of that studying.

[MrPrena]

Congrats!

[mikeyymonster]

I've passed 3 so far on my first try and I have my last exam (BEC) scheduled for next month! I'm jealous!

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

Gotcha. All my wife's clients offer her jobs, but she loves doing public accounting. She likes the diversity of her clients. Her firm is a largeish regional firm and have a much better work life balance than Big 4.

No chance of them being progressive enough to set you up to work from home a few days a week?

No, I just can't see how they'd do that, and oftentimes I need the resources at the office to do my job well.

I definitely understand your wife's POV, that's what I really liked as well when I was at Deloitte, I just didn't have the balance that she has. That's awesome for her and wish her all the best! The other thing that's nice with a firm is that you generally have a lot of smart competent people around you that you can bounce questions off of - that's the other thing I really liked.

[K19BMW]

Originally Posted by alz0rz

GJ OP!!!.... My wife is going through her actuarial exams (4/5 now)... which I understand are much harder than CPA (tongue in cheek reference to what actuaries think of accountants).. but I can relate how she feels after her successes to what yours may be after putting in all of that studying.

I have heard that those are harder but for me I think they might actually be easier only because I'm a big math person and the CPA exams are less than 50% math while the actuarial exams are much more math intensive

Originally Posted by Lazee 1

I've passed 3 so far on my first try and I have my last exam (BEC) scheduled for next month! I'm jealous!

If you passed the other three on your first try you'll definitely pass BEC!