 Good morning, Hamdan. How are you? How's everything going? When are you taking the BEC? I guess pretty soon, right? Hello, everyone. If you can hear me, please confirm. I just want to make sure the audio is working properly, and we already have 10 attendees. Let me check, make sure it's streaming on LinkedIn, it's streaming on YouTube, and nothing yet on Facebook yet. Good morning, Travore. Hi, yes, thank you. Thank you, Facebook user. I guess it's streaming on Facebook, but I cannot see it. But at least I know that Facebook user's comments, I can see them here, which is good. How's everyone doing now? We're up to 20. This is an open discussion. If you're studying for the CPA exam, I'm here to answer any questions, guide you, shed some lights on some topics, not a particular topic, in a sense, material topic, but general motivation, support, guidance about the exam itself, strategies. So where is everyone calling from? I believe Hamdan from Florida, Travore. I'm not sure, Travore, if you can let me know where you're calling from. That will be interesting and nice. And what are you studying for? Which CPA exam section? And who's your course provider? In other words, is it Becker, Glyme, Roger, which is you would? How to calculate forward contract if we have present value? Go to my forward contract lesson. Puerto Rico, BEC lecture. Excellent. What are you using to study for the BEC? Because now you have literally less than a month to set for the BEC exam. How's your study going on? And is this your first attempt on BEC or second attempt? And how are you studying? What's your bottleneck? What are the most difficult topics for you? Travore, Michigan, you're studying for audit. How come audit? I believe I might have asked you this before, if I did. I apologize. Why are you finishing audit? Are you planning to sit in 2023 or 2024? Because audit is the least amount of changes. Give me one second here. I'm on my sixth and final BEC attempt. Neil, what's the issue? What is the issue? Why do you think you are not passing? What is the bottleneck? That's the question. Why do you think you're not passing BEC? Taking the exam six times, at some point, I would consider you an expert in the exam. But what is the bottleneck in your opinion? Constant accounting, financial decision model. What are you using, Facebook user and IT? How are you studying for the exam? Which resources? Less than a month to take audit. I was finding A4 to be very challenging. A4, let me see what A4 is. Give me one moment. I'm going to share my screen. And you are taking, I'm assuming since you said A4, it's backer. So let me see what A4 is. Give me one moment. Share screen. Take a look at this. So you're taking backer A4. Let me see backer audit backer. Let me see what A4 is. What is the best way to break down the cycles we audit and then and the controls around it? Okay. Trevor, I'm not sure if you are using my material or not. Let me go to A4 and show you what needs to be done. A4, indeed, they are the cycles. So I'm not really sure how much backer does cover the cycles. But if you look at my material, for example, the revenue cycle alone, backer might spend 20 to 30 minutes on the revenue cycle. I would say even less. Here's what I have under the revenue cycle. I have one, two, three, four, five, six. So the way I teach you the cycle is introduction to the sales cycle. Make sure you know it. Test of control and substantive testing of transaction, auditing of the cash collection cycle, auditing of the sales return, an example, auditing of a count receivable, analytical procedure for sales and collection cycle, then another example, then test of detail balances for a count receivable, confirmation, example of a cutoff. And I'll go over a few CPA exam questions. So what I'm trying to tell you is there is no shortcut if you want to learn this, Trevor. For example, this is only one cycle, the revenue cycle. This is how I have it covered. Backer will have the revenue cycle covered in 20 to 30 minutes. Each one of these videos is 20 to 30 minutes. That's going to give you not an overview in that understanding of the concept. You want to call it complement, supplement. It's up to you. Let me send you the course. But this is what you need to do. And this is only for the revenue cycle. This is only for the revenue cycle. So let me just send you the link for the backer audit. Okay, I send you the link for the backer audit. Now, let me show you if we go to another cycle. So just kind of give you an idea that the cycles, it's not something easy. It's a lot of work. And when they try to show, not sure change you the CPA exam, they just on the CPA review course, they don't have time for it. I go through the expenditure cycle. Again, I have 11 videos under the expenditure cycle. Explaining the expenditure cycle from A to Z. Start understanding the expenditure cycle. Test of controls, test of transaction and political procedures. That's of detailed balances of accounts payable. The purchasing cycle, inventory cutoff. This is only for the purchasing cycle. Then I have the same thing for cash and financial instruments. Don't wait for a war. Don't wait. You can start a free trial. Don't wait. It's a lot of work. Then I have the inventory. There's no shortcut. You have to know it. Once you know what's inside out, maybe it's going to take you two hours to go over each cycle. Only two and a half hours. But once you are done, that's if you are done in each cycle, and you know what's inside out. And once you go through the first cycle and you understand how to approach a cycle, then once you're done with the revenue, once you do the expenditure, it's going to be easier for you to understand the expenditure cycle. Because I have a systematic way on covering those. And for every cycle, I show you also the analytical procedure. So I cover it from all direction. Don't wait for a war. Subscribe. You have two day free trial. If you don't like it, cancel. You're not charged. Otherwise, keep it. Keep it. This is how it helps. I'm Facebook user said second attempt. Neil, I felt I did good with cost accounting. Let's score three. I thought I passed this last attempt. But I got stronger on multiple choice reasons. I used backer and ninja. Neil, you've been taken BEC six attempts. You need to know why. Why? And I'm going to tell you. I'm going to go and tell you why. Why people fail the exam. People fail the exam because they have a weakness and a particular and not in a particular in several topics and major topics. They have weaknesses in those. And as long as you don't understand those topic, as long as you don't learn them, backer and ninja will not help you. Backer is a review course. Ninja usually it's known for their multiple choice. I'm not really sure. I never looked in their product, but they are not going to teach you what you need to learn. You cannot review something if you don't know it. It's like trying to understand the cycle, trying to review the cycle with backer. But if you don't understand really how the cycle works inside out, you cannot review it, especially something with the cycle. It's multiple step from different direction. So Neil, what I would recommend, I'm going to send you my BEC backer course. And what you should do at this point, taking the course multiple times, most likely you took the multiple choice questions several times, also, which they would lose their value once you use the course several times. So I'm going to send you the course. Give me one moment here. I'm going to post the link here. Make sure you see it. And what you should do now, because you are under a limited amount of time, let's assume you have problem with capital structure, B2M1. Well, you go to B2M1 and you view my lessons, you take my multiple choice questions about that topic to understand this topic better. Now, once you understand the backer better, you want to go back to backer and do their multiple choice. That's fine. I also have my own multiple choice. So the reason people fail is because they don't understand the concept. Review courses only review the concept once you know it. And they do a great job. Backer is a great review course, but it's only a review course. It's not a teaching course. BEC was my third test, and I guess my last exam will be 2024. The track will be tougher next year. Not necessary, Neil. Right, get a little bit lighter to remove some of the advanced stuff and put it into TCP. I'm taking bar if I don't pass BEC this time. Yes, that will be... Well, it's up to you. Yes. I mean, since you are studying for BEC, you're going to be studying 50% for bar. So, yeah, it's not a bad idea, but hopefully, follow this free trial. The free trial is for two days. I will not be concerned whether it's for two days or one day. You're going to try it for one day. If it's working for you, keep it. If it's not canceled, I'm sure you would know in two days whether it's working for you or not. But it's for today, the free trial. You would know after two hours whether it's working for you or not. Because here's what's going to happen. Once you go through a cycle, like choose a cycle, revenue cycle, and go through the revenue cycle, and ask yourself, do I know it better? If the answer is yes, keep the free trial. Go for it. If not, don't do it. Don't do it. But this is how you would know whether it's working for you or not. So, two days is plenty of time. Unless I hope you're not trying to save money, that's not a good thing. $30, it's not going to break you. It's an investment in your career. But I hope that you're not factoring that. Please give how to allocate study time. How to allocate the study time? My strategy is this. I'm going to type it up in the chat box. First, understand the concept. The first thing you have to do is spend time understanding the concept. And who's going to help you the most? In my opinion, I can help you the most in understanding the concept. Then you review with your CPA course. Then you practice with your CPA course and questions. Then you retain. Those are the four steps. I posted them in the message. In my opinion, this is how people should allocate their time. Understand the concept. You cannot review something if you don't understand it. And this is where my material can come in and help you understand it. Review it. Once you understand it, you can review it. Review it with your CPA course. Then practice. You can practice with your CPA course. You can practice with FARHA. You have both. Then you have to retain. How would you retain? Here's my tip about retaining. Once you go over those three steps, record. Talk to yourself. One student told me, are you telling me to talk to myself? Yes. Talk to yourself on the phone. Record your notes. You might have some sort of an app, a recording app, or your WhatsApp. Create a group for yourself on WhatsApp and record your notes on WhatsApp and review your notes for potential purposes. This is how you allocate your study time. Those four steps, step by step. How much time to allocate? Allocate as much time as you can. Allocate as much time as you can. There's no answer for that. The information inside out. Any other questions, comments, anything? If I missed a comment, please let me know. Type it again in the chat box. I'm going over the comments again just to make sure I did not miss anything. Neil, Facebook user, second attempt. Facebook user, I'm not sure if you told me, yes, he said, cost accounting, financial decision ID. Facebook user, I strongly encourage you to go to my and subscribe. I strongly encourage you to do that because it's going to help you tremendously. Becker is not given much on IT. Where can I get more practice? Hamdan, I do have a lot of questions, and if that's not enough for you, I would suggest, I would suggest, I would suggest Wiley test bank. That's what I would suggest. But I do have hundreds of IT questions. You want to try those as well. You want to try those as well. Not at all. I'm going to send you my, I believe you are using Facebook, I believe you are using Becker. The best is to use my Becker, Becker course. Let me send you my Becker BEC course. Becker BEC course. This is my, this is my Becker BEC course. Any other questions, comments, anything. I want to learn all subject of CPA for teaching purposes like you in India. Can you tell me which material give me the detail understanding like a teacher should have? Ethics, I believe I am the person. You should not say this. You should not promote yourself. But if you want to learn the material, this is what exactly what I do. I help, I help people understand the concept. This is exactly what I do. So yes, I can help you with the material. So subscribe to my website. And if you're going to be learning this for a period of time, I do have options of three months, six months or a year, subscribe for more than a year. Yes, first learn it. You can learn it on my website for sure. This is where you learn the material. Any other questions, comments, anything. We have around 17 people attending, extremely worried for BEC, tough variance questions, COSO, ERM, IT. Yes, all questions are tough if you don't understand variances. You want to make sure you can ask for variances, practice as many as possible. COSO, ERM, those should not be tough issues. I know IT, they're given questions and IT that, you know, no CPA review course is teaching because we don't know what they're given. But COSO, ERM, in variances, you should be able to master them before the graduation. What are you using? Which CPA review course are you using? Because the reason you're finding difficult is because you don't understand them well. I mean, variances, some of the questions are easy. I mean, I saw some variance questions that involve journal entries. Those are difficult. If they're asking you for a journal entry, that's difficult. But most of them, they don't even require journal entries, just basically some computation factor. So again, I'm going to send you my backer BEC, just like this is the third time I send it. This is what I can offer you. What I'm trying to offer you is something in addition to your backer course, something that's going to help you learn the material. So when you said, I don't understand variances, well, because if you never learn it properly, backer cannot help you. Backer assumes you know it and the review on it. Where can you learn it? I can help you learn it. Go to my course, subscribe to my course. It's set up just like backer. Whatever variances are, like whatever section they are, BEC5, I'll have them in BEC5. I'm just saying BEC5 just for illustration purposes. I'm not really sure in which section they are. So you can easily follow, learn it. I have practice questions. Then you go to backer and you review it and you will see it make more sense when you go to backer to review it. Same thing with ERM. Same thing with what else you're having difficulty with with COSO. No, my courses are on my website. My courses are on my website. I have lectures where I have a few go to courses and you would select your discipline and your CPR review course or your accounting courses where I have the lectures, the notes, multiple choice, true, false, AI, CPA questions. This is what I meant by courses. I just submitted the link. I believe you're studying for BEC. I just submitted the link. You can look at BEC as well. Let me take a look at the Facebook. I don't see any comments on Facebook. Yes, I have complete courses on my website that are aligned map to your CPR review course. Any other questions? Comments? What should be my learning strategy after subscribing to your website for teaching? In order to teach something, you have to know it. How you teach each individual will have a different style, different perspective on things. But you cannot teach something that you don't understand initially. So first, when you go to my website, you'll learn it. Now, how you deliver your knowledge, each individual, they have their own different style. But learning is the base. How you deliver, depending on your style. I'm not really sure how you're going to be showing yourself. You're going to be using a whiteboard or a blackboard with a camera. You're going to be using... I'm not sure which method you're going to be using to teach this. Are you going to be teaching it in class? That's different than teaching it online. Show yourself. How you deliver it is up to you. But whatever the method, first you have to learn it. First you have to learn it. My question to you is, have you ever thought before, or is this something that you are exploring? Khalil's son, he's the best. You mean ethics, UPSC? If you took courses with him, please let us know. That will be what style does he teach? Learning first, then delivering. The delivery method is up to you. We're approaching 30 minutes. Any questions, any comments, anything. I'm here to let you know what I can offer you and answer some basic questions about CPA exam preparation, techniques, strategies that's going to help you get over this exam, pass it, move on, focus on your career, succeed, enjoy it. Good. Then you have a teaching experience. Thank you, Khalil. I thought you meant because the comment. Thank you very much, Khalil. Yes. Obviously, I'm assuming since you thought before, you have your own teaching style. You just have to use the method that works with the students that's going to appeal to the student. I have my way, different people have their own ways. It's basically a personal preference. If you want to describe your way of teaching, what would you say? How do you teach? Why do you think you're a good teacher? You want to? Absolutely, Hamdan, absolutely. Please keep me posted about your BEC exam. I know you're taking it soon and let me know how it goes, how it went. Thank you very much for subscribing. If you like this subscription, mention this. I know. I wish you best of luck, but please, if you're using my subscription, please type something. Tell everyone here that you are using it and how you are using it. It's helping me because you are giving a first hand against using my website. I know you're a subscriber. I know you're using it. Let everyone know about it because it's good coming from someone else. Thank you. Thank you, Hamdan. Five more minutes and we'll call it for the day. Four more minutes. Please, if you have any questions, you could always reach out. I'm also going to give you my calendar. If you would like to set up one-on-one meeting, let me post it. This is my calendar. If you'd like to set up one-on-one meeting, let me put it on LinkedIn as well so people can see it. If you'd like to set up one-on-one meeting, I would be happy to shed some light on your preparation, support you, guide you. Any last-minute comments, questions, anything. Absolutely your most welcome ethics. Let me know if you're going to be teaching for yourself, if you're teaching for someone. Get in touch with me on LinkedIn or privately. I'm always interested in meeting other teachers. That's my industry. I'll be happy to guide you. Okay everyone, I guess we have now 10 people remaining in the chat. Eight, your most welcome Facebook user, your most welcome. Okay everyone, excellent then. Stay safe, study hard, your education is an investment in your career. Yes, likewise ethics. Take it seriously. It's a long term plan, 20, 30 years. You're investing one or two years in your life. Take it seriously, invest in terms of time. Don't be afraid to invest money in your education, like subscribing to my website. It's going to help you succeed, pass the exam, move on and pay your dividend for the next 30, 40 years. Good luck everyone. See you online. I'm always here. Reach out through LinkedIn, my calendar, YouTube, website. Many ways to get in touch with me. Have a great weekend or whatever, you know, remaining of it depending on which time zone you are in. Bye everyone.