I did several updates leading up to most of my PEP exams (except for Core 1 because I was overwhelmed near the end) and thought I should do the same for my last one. I am writing this the night before my Performance Management (PM) exam. Eric asked if I was planning on doing any…
My Performance Management (PM) exam is in three days. It is my last CPA PEP exam and my third writing at home. I have not been the biggest fan of writing my exam at home but I got used to it after I wrote two in 2020. The PM module was also the easiest as…
I wanted to get ahead with CFE study so I finished the assigned readings for Performance Management (PM), my last CPA PEP module, early. Unlike with Finance, I did not use the Densmore package for PM this time. I have heard that PM was going to be a relatively easy module (especially compared to Finance)…
The practice case for my Performance Management Elective module I attempted today was one of the most challenging ones I have written. There was a lot of information (7 pages), a wide variety of AOs (production schedule, financial statement impact, pricing etc) and nothing exciting about the company (it sells pressure valves, what?). The information…
My last CPA PEP module officially started one week ago. Since I work in the industry and passed Finance, I had a choice* between Performance Management, Assurance (audit) or Tax. It wasn’t a difficult choice for me as I had always known I wanted to take Finance and Performance Management. The schedule also worked out…
Failing your CPA PEP exam is frustrating. However, that doesn’t say anything about your intelligence or ability. Since your grade is determined by your performance on two cases, failing your PEP exam only means you could have executed your exam strategy on the day of the exam more efficiently. It is natural to be upset…
The result of my Finance exam is coming out in less than one week and I was confident I passed after I wrote the exam. Luckily, my feelings didn’t change in the last 3 weeks (I went back and forth after I wrote Core 1 in Dec 2019) this time. For those of you who…
If you have been following my CPA journey, you would know that I just wrote the PEP exam for the Finance module. Even though the result won’t be released for another two weeks or so, I am quite confident that I passed (especially when the pass rate for Finance was 90% in 2019). One thing…
I shared the message below on my Instagram after writing the Finance exam yesterday. The Finance and Core 1 exams both started at 9 AM even though the latter ended earlier. A few Core 1 writers messaged me after their exams and they were sure they failed. It reminded me of how I felt after…
I finished my 5-hour long (120-min & 80-min cases with a 25-min break) Finance exam at home a couple of hours ago and was on the phone after with a couple of my friends who wrote the same exam. I usually avoid talking about an exam after-the-fact because it does more harm than good. However,…