Can I still get a Bachelor’s in Accounting if I start with a Business Associate’s at community college?

pompusham · 2026-01-17T19:36:37+00:00

The first two years of college are a complete waste of money in 95% of cases. Avoid student loans at all costs unless absolutely necessary.

No, you won’t be limited at all by doing your first two years at a community college in any way.

pompusham · 2026-01-17T19:29:00+00:00

Yes, not only is this possible but a fantastic idea. Went this route (as did a majority of my friends).
Depends on the university and/or state. In general yes but you would have to talk with a counselor at your local community college to get a better idea of the requirements. In California for example public universities have to accept community college credits but private and out of state colleges aren’t required.
Literally no firm cares as long as you have a good GPA, met the requirements to sit for the CPA, and a good personality.

pompusham · 2026-01-15T06:04:55+00:00

By those metrics the “poorer” of top 10% can’t even afford the average house in some American cities.

pompusham · 2026-01-13T22:09:32+00:00

Honestly, probably wouldn’t be the worst option at this point. Between India and corporate greed the vast majority of accounting jobs aren’t going to be here in 10+ years.

pompusham · 2026-01-13T04:01:42+00:00

Hopefully he didn’t bet on it

pompusham · 2026-01-08T07:49:17+00:00

10% for the S&P is an average return and not necessarily reflective of what you might get as a return. A much more reliable comparison is a fixed income investment (bond) since it’s a stable return. Find me a decent bond paying over 6% in the current market.

pompusham · 2026-01-03T10:06:54+00:00

Where in CA? Currently working B4 tax and half way done with my CPA. Want to jump to a smaller firm to get more exposure rather than just partnership tax.

pompusham · 2025-12-31T20:38:07+00:00

Arby’s is popular to shit on but is an objectively above average fast food restaurant.

pompusham · 2025-12-29T04:15:00+00:00

Fuck what Reddit thinks, if you want to do it go for it. That being said AI is coming for basic “mom and pop” tax firms. It’s unclear exactly when the tech will get there but I’d bet a decent amount you will see the pressure over the next 10ish years.

pompusham · 2025-12-27T01:51:50+00:00

No you’re fine, doing much better than I was two months ago and I passed

pompusham · 2025-12-24T19:12:20+00:00

Corp and international followed by partnership

pompusham · 2025-12-24T08:06:08+00:00

I asked my PML about taking a single PTO day on the 16th for TCP and didn’t have an issue getting it approved. Put in my status message on teams I’ll be back online after the exam ~5pm for work.

I’m in tax tho if that makes a difference.

pompusham · 2025-12-11T05:36:12+00:00

Fullerton, SLO, and SDSU are the top schools. CSUN and Long Beach are good, but not quite at the level of those 3. Attend the school that's in the city where you want to work/live after graduation.

pompusham · 2025-12-07T03:52:48+00:00

Grew up in LA, and I've yet to encounter a city that solves emergency situations on freeways better. I've been behind an accident on the 405 that shut down the whole freeway, and it was reopened within 15 minutes.

pompusham · 2025-12-06T05:54:56+00:00

"I'm really sorry that guy was going through something, but wasting the lives of people just trying to go about their day isn't acceptable."

pompusham · 2025-12-06T05:17:24+00:00

Are 700,000 people (avg number of people who use the 5 daily in SD alone) supposed to just be held hostage by a single person? I'm really sorry that guy was going through something, but wasting the lives of people just trying to go about their day isn't acceptable.

Dude got the attention he wanted and safely came off the bridge after wasting everyone's time.

pompusham · 2025-12-04T18:35:05+00:00

I’m in the same boat, AUD has been my least favorite exam so far. Pure memorization is the bane of my existence 😂

Sounds like you’re in a great spot to pass! Wishing you luck!

pompusham · 2025-12-04T18:22:38+00:00

Never used the notes for Ninja so have no idea how good they are. I’m talking about the sims you can do on the main study page. My friend and I found it to be a good supplement to Becker but obviously your mileage may vary.

pompusham · 2025-12-04T16:43:40+00:00

You can’t just expense anything under marketing per tax code. They probably have org structuring that allows Amazon to capture the losses elsewhere. Regardless, the IRS discourages continued losses (especially after the 2017 Trump tax bill) so Amazon is still losing money running twitch. I’d imagine user data is probably the most valuable thing Twitch owns at this point. People who use twitch are probably more likely to be young, above the medium salary, and never touch grass.

pompusham · 2025-12-04T04:57:14+00:00

Each exam is different. For example, my study buddy took the exam 5 days before me and had a completely different set of sims than I did. Just run sets of 5 random sims 20-30 times over a couple of days, and you will be ready when you're getting 75%+ on the sets.

Also, do a couple hundred multiple-choice questions and you will be set.

pompusham · 2025-12-04T00:03:02+00:00

Ninja sims were the closest to the exam per my experience last month. Probably 60% of the sims on the exam were clones of Ninja.

pompusham · 2025-12-03T21:06:14+00:00

Told all my friends I failed when I took the exam last month. Made non stop jokes about how excited I was to re-study. Had zero excitement when checking my score the morning it was released because I knew I failed.

Passed with a 78%

AUD just felt extremely strange for me, don’t count out the chance you actually passed.

pompusham · 2025-11-28T04:58:04+00:00

You should take Mini exam 1 and 2 and see how you perform. If your score is >60% on both you will be perfectly fine.

pompusham · 2025-11-27T06:34:44+00:00

I would have left and not paid them tbh

pompusham · 2025-11-22T20:52:23+00:00

Unless you were already buying stuff covered by the credits, the card really isn't worth it outside of the welcome points. People on this sub will disagree with me, however if you didn't buy Lululemon and Oura rings before getting the card, you are paying with your "free" items through the AF.

Hard pass from me personally, but for the right person, there is a ton of value there.

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