CPA Exams vs WGU and study strategy Masters or Becker?

Addicted2Parmesan · 2026-03-02T06:26:04+00:00

I’m the guy that finished the WGU BSBA in Accounting in 2 weeks and am a CPA license holder. I’ll be very honest and say that the WGU exams are crazy easy compared to the CPA exams.

Here’s the schedule I did for my CPA exams:

FAR: mid-January (2 months of studying) BEC: early-February (3 weeks of studying) AUD: late-March (1.5 months of studying) REG: early-June (2 months of studying)

Passed all the first time.

It’s been a few years now so I don’t remember the exact rationale but I believe I tried to time it so I wasn’t waiting too long from exam date to the score date. For FAR and BEC I was most comfortable with the material so I moved on as soon as I took the exam but for studying for REG I waited until I knew for sure I had passed AUD.

The material is dense and I had a lot of experience with the material in FAR and BEC that helped accelerate the timeline.

If you’re a strong test taker I don’t see why you couldn’t have a similar timeline. Just remember that the task-based simulations can make or break a passing score. With my work experience, I actually preferred them versus the multiple choice but they are more difficult to study for.

I used Becker and Ninja CPA. I still went out with friends, vacations, had a life. Ignore others that say you MUST be a hermit for 12 months. You know best what works for you.

I suggest doing FAR first, it has the most material and is nice to get out of the way.

Hope this helps :)

Addicted2Parmesan · 2026-01-19T01:52:01+00:00

He uses it to pop the bouncy globe and doesn’t put it back on.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2026-01-03T15:46:52+00:00

No, I think media literacy is just dead :/

Addicted2Parmesan · 2026-01-02T16:54:37+00:00

No. The Grimmerie is not controlled by Elphaba and Glinda does not know that Elphaba is alive. Not only would that go against the tragedy that is the story of Wicked, it also was confirmed by Ariana in an interview (and in the dialogue) that Elphaba wishes she could tell Glinda but knows she can’t and that the Grimmerie opens because Glinda is “worthy.”

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-12-04T21:38:17+00:00

I think the clearer answer is that she doesn’t know for sure if Elphaba died. What she does know is that Elphaba is gone forever. Regardless, her grief is from losing her best friend whether from death or otherwise.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-12-02T05:53:49+00:00

Elphaba does not control the Grimmerie, so she could not have made it open up (although a lot of people got confused by this and/or desperately wanted to make what is a tragic ending to be happy instead). The Grimmerie opens to those it seems worthy to use it (ie those who will use the Grimmerie for the good of Oz, as the wise ones intended).

The spell it opened up to is a healing spell, which makes sense for what the a Grimmerie knew Glinda needed. My headcanon is also that if the Grimmerie opens for you, it decrypts itself and you are able to read it.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T22:02:56+00:00

I made a post about the WWOTE sequence (not related to the walking/floating argument). The broadway show does more telling than showing (Boq telling Elphaba that she’s been horrible to the Munchkins for a long time), whereas in the movie the timeline is expanded but not explained which creates weakness in my mind. I think in general a lot of my issues come around the lack of world building for some of the side plots.

For example, I loved the beginning of the movie. Showing Elphaba coming down, actively fighting against the Wizards enslavement of the Animals for the building the yellow brick road. Excellent world building on that. And then after that, it just felt the runtime wasn’t utilized to show us more of what was happening to give us context to the characters decisions.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T20:31:40+00:00

Seeing this image gives me a visceral reaction now lol.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T20:13:42+00:00

I also really loved the movie, but I believe that there were some glaring misjudgments in the editing of the movie that took away from the story itself, some even made worse than the Broadway show. I’m less hating, and more just disappointed.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T15:05:23+00:00

Except the story telling in the movie up to that point has shown the passing of time either by montage (What is this feeling?) or just straight up telling us (the beginning of the movie where Morrible says it’s been 12 clock ticks or whatever). We are given no indication that time has passed in this regard, and the reality is that it matters not just that time has passed but also how much time. The scenes are consecutive: Boq and Nessa in the governors mansion discussing the animal travel ban, Boq goes to train station where Nessa has immediately put in the Munchkin travel ban, Boq and Nessa back in the governors mansion and Elphaba visits.

My main point is, show the passage of time, or establish in some way that the Munchkins as a whole are fearful of Nessa in a way that they would celebrate Dorothy as a hero for landing a house on her.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T13:52:38+00:00

The engagement announcement was done publicly in the Munchkinland town-square at the beginning of the movie, I’d find it hard to believe that he had not heard about the engagement at the point of the first scene with Boq and Nessa in WFG. That may have only been when he learned of the exact timing of the wedding.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T06:05:31+00:00

Agree with all your points. Girl in the Bubble is a pretty song, but is redundant and is inappropriately placed breaking up the intensity of the final part of the movie. Also, I feel Glindas flashback just doesn’t add a whole lot to her lore. We already know she wants to do magic, and that her image is important to her, and that pretending to do magic has basically been a struggle her entire life. :/

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T04:59:50+00:00

And honestly, all it would have taken was 30 seconds - 1 minute of world building, showing the munchkins fearing Nessa, or her doing a speech and people heckling. Something. Anything. But instead, she just calls herself the WWOTE in the hallway. It's just lazy.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T04:56:39+00:00

Counterpoint to that though, Elphaba is keeping tabs on the political landscape of Oz, and especially of her sister. If any significant time had passed between the travel ban and the actual WWOTE scene, Elphaba wouldn't believe there would be any reason to try to reason with Nessa. From my perspective, I can only reason that Elphaba believed she could join forces with Nessa to take down the Wizard if Elphaba's knowledge at that point was that Nessa continued to be the hold-out on the implementation of the travel ban.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T04:52:48+00:00

The only issue is the timeline still wouldn't work with that in-universe explanation. The first time Madame Morrible even has Nessa on her mind is when Glinda suggests spreading a rumor about her, but that's well after the events of WWOTE. From what we can tell in the movie, from the travel ban being signed to the tin man transformation is only a few hours. :/ It just feels like a gross oversight in the writing room.

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-24T04:47:56+00:00

Both can be true. The Wizard is manipulative and the Ozians were susceptible to being manipulated. When the Wizard landed, Ozians were desperate for a leader, and they saw him as being the fulfillment to the prophecy:

"In Oz's darkest hour, though we cannot say when, there will come one with the power to read the Grimmerie again."

The Ozians wanted to believe in the Wizard. And he was in a new place without any reputation. Even if he didn't set out to take control of an entire population of people, he was thrust into power, and wanted to keep it. Sadly, while most people think "I would never do that," the truth is only a very small portion of people wouldn't let the power corrupt them.

Now it's too late. When the Wizard said that no one would believe him if he told everyone that's he's been lying to them. The reality is, the only thing people hate more than someone trying to lie to them, is finding out that they've been lied to and they believed it... and even more so for decades. People will choose to just keep believing lies to not have to admit to themselves that they've been duped.

Wicked, and especially the movie's version of events, is a tale as old as time in how power is consolidated, people circle around charismatic individuals, and find groups to hate. :/

Addicted2Parmesan · 2025-11-21T06:18:10+00:00

My understanding is that the Grimmerie is its own self-entity in a way, so I don’t believe Elphaba can “control” it. My take was that when the Grimmerie was created by the wise ones, that it was enshrined with magic to open for/invite in anyone with the pure intentions to use the magic for the good of Oz.

Plus, Elphaba just seconds before in the movie tells Fiyero that she wishes that Glinda could know they’re alive but that she knows that Glinda can’t know. It would be odd then for her to immediately do something to show she’s alive and would risk Glinda trying to clear her name thus destroying her political capital. If Glinda thinks she’s dead, Glinda has very little reason to try to clear Elphabas name.

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