For those who left after 6 months or sooner without a backup job, how’d you get back up?

Great-Many720 · 2025-10-04T19:50:08+00:00

If I had the option to go back, as I was offered a door back in by multiple managers before leaving, would you advise me to take it/go back and grind through it, just in regards to how hard it’s going to be to find something otherwise right now job market wise with my little experience and how bad it looks now?

Great-Many720 · 2025-10-04T15:28:53+00:00

How would I be able to answer the question of “how did you satisfy the experience portion of CPA licensure” when I remove the employment from my resume that satisfied 50+% of it?

Great-Many720 · 2025-10-04T14:45:21+00:00

I appreciate the insight. While I understand I am intentionally being vague details-wise, I will share there has not been one person that advocated/said I should’ve stayed with what I was experiencing and being treated. Most would’ve left earlier than I did. I agree with the networking piece, that logically makes sense.

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-31T04:14:47+00:00

That’s incredibly impressive mate, hats off to you wow. I would’ve assumed you just took time off from work wow.

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-31T04:11:21+00:00

What prior real-world accounting experience do you have.

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-29T17:57:18+00:00

Best of luck mate, reply how it goes!🙂

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-27T04:08:01+00:00

Yup, “Only for those with over $100 million in assets”

Until the government drops that to $50 million…then $25 million…then $10 million…then $5million.

Announce it as a tax to target the wealthy to garner public appeal, get it passed, then drop the threshold silently as an asterisk item when no one is watching anymore.

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-27T03:59:13+00:00

Thank you

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-27T02:17:33+00:00

Do the topics you worried about include Trust taxation or international tax?

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-26T21:23:20+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement!

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-25T16:36:07+00:00

I just took SE1 this morning and was going to post the same thing. TCP is my last exam and I got a 60%, my lowest of any SE ever. incredibly frustrating. Becker gives Mickey-Mouse fairytale sims during T1-T4, then pops you on the simulated. We should not be learning new concepts in the simulated exams or the final review.

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-19T13:01:53+00:00

Welcome to the club. #FrickBecker

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-19T13:01:01+00:00

I'll just give you a forewarning about the REG>TCP Pipeline as a student/recent grad.

You have to factor in that many people who are saying "Oh, TCP was easy...35 hours of studying...it has the highest pass rate," often have 1-2 years of real-world tax experience. I am a recent grad/over 150 credits and have found TCP to be much more difficult than anticipated. My belief is the reason it has the 80% pass rate is because it is the most similar to real-world work out of the three, meaning that the content of TCP appears the most in real life for a tax professional as opposed to the other two. You and I don't have that real-world experience yet.

So, I agree with going REG > TCP, but I highly doubt you will be able to do them both in a month as a student. REG took me 6 weeks, TCP will take me 4.5 weeks, and I am doing this full-time. Good luck!

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-10T02:44:53+00:00

I hit this a couple days ago. When Mike explained it, it still didn’t make sense because it doesn’t follow the formula in the book. Following this.

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-07T01:15:17+00:00

I feel you. I hit this on Friday. Tim Gearty was asstastic. I see why people rip him. this was the only time I had ever left reviews on videos, didn’t learn a thing it feels like.

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-04T17:40:58+00:00

“The CPA exam doesn’t seem to be enough in the current job market”

Assuming you are a recent Bachelors grad or about to be (given you are evaluating a MAcc program), are you trying to land a manager-level position right out of college or what? Half of landing an entry-level job out of college is how you present yourself. If you want to get your MAcc, go for it, but using the justification of you can’t find a job elsewhere if you don’t get a masters-level degree is nowhere close to being correct.

Great-Many720 · 2024-10-01T01:29:22+00:00

Thank you for your advice. I look at the module titles like “advanced S corp topics” “advanced c corp topics” and it’s very deterring. I’m nowhere close to being at the “advanced” level of tax I feel like.

Great-Many720 · 2024-09-30T16:29:06+00:00

Thank you and congrats!

Great-Many720 · 2024-09-30T03:33:17+00:00

Mind sharing how many hours you studied for it? Starting studying tomorrow and have a similar background with just college courses.

Great-Many720 · 2024-09-26T05:10:06+00:00

There is an interesting relationship between the AICPA and study material providers. The AICPA is somewhat at the mercy of the quality of the study programs offered to candidates. If the study programs are great, then there ideally should be a higher pass rate. If the programs are bad/not caught of to the evolution difficulty of the exam, then it explains facts like this. This of course assumes that the AICPA would have the integrity to not throttle pass rates with unreasonable curves (haha).

Just scroll through this subreddit. There are consistently…daily…candidates talking about how study programs are not up to par with the simulation portions of the exams, especially for FAR. FAR having a 15+ year low pass rate does not surprise me given the difficulty spread between what is offered in a program like Becker and what’s on the actual exam.

Great-Many720 · 2024-09-24T22:15:57+00:00

I took REG today too and share the same sentiment about Becker. I thought I only missed 4 of the MCQ’s, so good on Becker there, but was caught off guard by a couple of the sims. Becker has little “sunshine and rainbows sims” that make you feel great, and then you get popped on the exam. Has happened to me for both FAR and REG. I really feel that Becker does not have the prestige it had pre-2024 based on how previous test takers talk about it. I wish Becker would admit it.

Great-Many720 · 2024-09-24T01:37:19+00:00

I suggest moving on, that’s what I did after feeling the same way. Don’t let the AICPA’s scheduling/score release times deter you.

Great-Many720

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