 Hello, everyone. Hello, Hula. Hello, Ruda. Can you hear me? Hello, Roy. Can you hear me? Hello. Hi, Navdeep. How are you? Can you hear me, guys? Could you just make sure you can hear me? Hi, Princess. Hi, Lionel. Hi, Clara. Hi, Mahmoud. Hi, Shenoy. How's everyone doing? Welcome, everyone, to this live session. Thank you, Clara. Thank you, Musa. Thank you, everyone. This live session, if in case you have any questions, if you're preparing for the CPA exam, if there's anything I can help you, if you have any questions about the 2024, I will be happy to address these questions, talk to you about what can you cannot do so on and so forth. Hi, Indu. Hi, Parmar. Hi, everyone. Hi, Raheem. Hi. I'm just going to say Roy. I'm going to be able to pronounce your last name. Abdi Wahat. Thank you, everyone. Welcome. Please let me know if you have any questions about the CPA exam preparation. If you're looking for supplemental resources, good morning, David. Good morning. Sorry, if I missed anyone, we are at 264 in this live session. Let me check my Facebook. Make sure it's all airing on Facebook. Give me one moment. When I look at the other screen, yes, it is airing on Facebook as well. This is because I have the other screen, making sure I am monitoring the chat and everything, so I don't have anyone that helps me with that. Okay, let's see. Give me one moment. Okay, good. How to get good marks in accounting courses? Well, you have to study hard, complete your homework and understand the material. What accounting courses are you looking for, Ruda? Mahmood, which section do you recommend we finish before year-end? Well, at this point, Mahmood, your faith is sealed in a sense that you no longer have many options. By the way, can you tell me, did you already start any sections yet? Or is this the first time you are registering? Because what I would recommend in 2024 was to finish BEC, but at this point, if you have not registered for BEC, it's too late. But can you tell me a little bit more about your background? Did you already start to work with starting? Did you already start to complete any sections yet? Or did you complete any sections yet? Hi, Mahmood. Lionel, I have Roger and I decided to watch only your videos then go to MCQs of Roger. I'm feeling more focused like that. Any advice that I can add? Lionel, I appreciate your trust that you're only watching my lecture than going and completing Roger, at least go over their notes. If you want to watch Roger, that's up to you. I recommend you do. You can view them on a speed mode. That's fine, but I recommend you also view Roger, view my lectures, view Roger. Roger will summarize what you learned with my material. It's basically reinforcement. It doesn't hurt. Now, if it's a matter of time, at least make sure you read the notes, read the book. But if that's working for you, perfect. I'm happy to hear that. I don't want you to ignore Roger lectures or Roger notes. That's my hope. Say I send you a message. Yes, I will take a look at it. Say, sorry, I receive hundreds of messages per day. So please bear with me. Please bear with me. And I would look at your message. For the LinkedIn user, hello, hi, hello. Is there any change in the AUD? Good question. Good question. AUD is experiencing the least amount of changes. There's a changes in everything, but it's the least amount of changes. Give me one moment, please. Give me one moment. Yes, the amount, audit is the least amount of changes. Yes, there are changes. Let me share with you. I know I do this in every important. I share with you my CPA exam changes because I went through every section and analyzed. I analyze the changes separately. So let me go to my YouTube channel and get you the changes. I will share with you the playlist. This way I can share it with everyone. But 2024 will be the least amount of changes. Bear in mind, don't take audit unless you are ready to audit. This is a strong recommendation. It's not required, but I always recommend that you take car before you take audit. That's for sure. Give me one moment, please. Let me just look at the audit. Let me find the audit exam. I'll share with you the playlist in a moment. I'll share with you the playlist. And this way you can see it. I'm planning for BAC in November. I'm a little worried about SEM. Absolutely, Roy, you should be worried. How should you prepare for SEMs? There are two ways to prepare for SEMs. The first is to learn about the type of SEMs out there. There are five types of SEMs. That's one thing. So when you are looking at a SEM, you are comfortable. You say, okay, this is one of the type of SEMs I thought I will get. And I do cover those in my course because I tell you what type of SEM are you dealing with. For example, is it the journal entry? Is it computational? Is it research? And the second thing with SEMs is to know the topics because every SEM is about a particular topic. For example, SWAT analysis. Well, you can have questions about SWAT analysis in a SEM. You can have questions about SWAT analysis in multiple choice. So if you don't know what SWAT analysis, if you don't know what SWAT analysis, then you cannot answer SWAT analysis questions because you don't know the topic or it could be about variances. You could see variances in terms of multiple choice. You could see variances in terms of what? In terms of simulation. But if you don't know how to solve simulations, if you don't understand variances, you will not be able to solve simulations. This is the point I am trying to make. So you have to understand the topics very well, all the topics for that matter. Then be able to enter the simulations and know what type of a simulation you are dealing with. So this is my advice about simulation. If you have to be comfortable with the topics, comfortable with the five types of simulations. On my website, what I do is I explain the five types of simulations. I also go over the simulations and obviously I will teach you the topics. So this is what you should do in practice. There are many simulations at possible. I'm not sure which CPA review course you have, but all CPA review courses, they have simulations. I do go over the AI CPA simulations on my website. If you want to take a look at it, you can start a free trial and join it and take a look at them. That's not bad. Back to Mahmoud. You're starting with FAR. Well, what I would suggest then, don't take FAR in 2024. Don't take FAR in 2024. Let me just give you one moment. I know what to find them. Get the playlist of the CPA exam changes. If you're taking FAR now, don't take FAR now. Wait until 2024 until you take FAR. And the reason is FAR is getting lighter. Just to give you an example of how lighter it is. FAR on backer used to have 10 models. Just like this is from a size perspective. The new FAR on backer has six modules. The point I'm trying to make is what happened is they reduced, they simply reduced the size of the material. They simply reduced the size. There's less material covered on FAR. That's why you want to wait and take FAR in 2024, not 2023. So make sure you take FAR. Wait until you take FAR in 2024. That's my advice for you. And what should you do? I'm not sure if you are preparing for FAR or not. Make sure you are looking at 2024 material because they did remove certain topics from FAR. They did remove certain topics. So you want to take the 2024 FAR. And I'm still looking for my playlist. Once I have it, I will share it with everyone. For the 2024, how will the new BEC exam be outlined? Well, for 2024, Danik, there's no BEC exam. The BEC exam, as we know it, is gone. What's going to happen to the BEC exam, if I want to summarize the BEC exam, part of the BEC exam will be part of the BAR, which is business analysis and reporting. And the other part of it will be part of the ISC, the information systems and control. So the BEC, as we know, is gone. Now some of it will be, a little bit of it will be like about data analytics. Maybe a small part of it will be in FAR, but the main thing will be in BAR and information systems and control. At this point, I have to get you to that playlist so I can share it with you. And this way, you have to know what's happening to the exam. You have to know what's happening to the exam. And the reason is because you want to know how to prepare, how to strategically prepare for this. Let me see. Where can I find this playlist? Is this the link? Yes, I did find the playlist. So let me, I'm going to share the playlist. I'm going to share the playlist in the chat now because you want to know what's happening. So this is the playlist. I'm also going to share it only then separately because only then it doesn't show when I share it on this streaming server. So let me share it only then as well. And I'm sharing it only then so you guys have it. I'm assuming on Facebook they can see it. I'm assuming on Facebook they can see it. So this is what you need to do. You need to understand what's happening to each section. Patel, are you doing FAR in 2023 or 2024? David, how will the other section be different in 2023? Not that much different. I just shared that link. Finally, I found it. I have five videos in that link, outlining the changes in each section. In audit is the one that starts with the minimum amount of changes. But it's simple. Audit don't change much. Yes, we have IP involved. We have cybersecurity. We have to learn a little bit more about IP cybersecurity and data analytics. That's not that much. So people who are studying for audit, they will define they are studying for 2023. They're studying for 2024. Can I still apply for BEC? I have already given four. So I'm not new applicant. I'm not sure you have to contact your state board of accountancy. They will let you know. I cannot answer that question. Most likely not. But it doesn't work to try. I'm not the authority to answer that question. Imam, I'm using Roger. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And this is how material helps along your CTA review course. I don't replace your CTA review. This is what Lionel basically stated as well. We have Vanshika. Worry about IP section. Many people say same thing comes beyond backer. Yes, Vanshika, this is a thing. It's beyond backer, beyond Wiley, beyond Roger. But you should study your backer material. What I suggest you do, if you have access to backer, what I suggest you do is look at your backer. If you haven't done the exam yet, look at the backer information system and control module for 2024. Because what's happening on the DEC? My guess is there are testing material, IT material that's covered on 2024. Now backer have this material. So let's just put the sake of our description. Let's just show some new heard. Again, I'm assuming new heard that, for example, we are testing relational database. And DEC don't cover relational database in depth. That is true. That's the case. What should you do? Go to information system and control for backer and cover relational database because they do cover this file. So this is my suggestion. If we do what? If we look at the information system and control, let's assume there's questions about cybersecurity. You heard there are questions about cybersecurity. 2024 information system and control, cover cybersecurity. Cover cybersecurity is where you are. So this is hopefully this hint or this step will help you and many others who are preparing for DEC because if you're using backer, they did not publish everything. They only published the first two module that they have the notes for the other module. I suggest we take a look at that as an additional resource that you have to select the topics. I cannot tell you what topics to select. So to stop a discussion, I would suggest you go for that. I cannot tell you which one. Because I don't know. It's as simple as that. LinkedIn user asks, why I'm not sure what the question is. Could you please replace your LinkedIn user? Oh, far before audit. Good question. Good question. Why far before audit? Because you think about it. Think about it from a college perspective before we talk about the CQC. When you are studying, when you're an accounting student, you take financial accounting and intermediate accounting, then you take your auditing course. So those courses are pre-requisites for audit. Well, there's a reason for that. Because if you want to audit financial statements, you have to understand the gap. And in order to understand the gap, you have to learn financial accounting. And my advice is don't take audit unless you're too smart because in part you learn financial accounting. Think about if they gave you a simulation about inventory, or a simulation about depreciation, or a simulation about warranty, or a simulation about contingent liabilities. All these are far topics. All what they're doing now is you're using your knowledge and applying auditing procedures. If you don't know the topic, if you're not comfortable with the topic of financial accounting, how do you expect to be able to answer the audit? So that's why far before audit. Now you might be asking, is this a requirement? Absolutely it's not. I took audit before I took audit. Audit was my first exam because I had a master's in forensic accounting. I was really comfortable with audit and I wanted to take audit to kind of increase my self-confidence. I can pass the exam. It's not required, but that's my suggestion. That's my suggestion, take audit before you take far before you take audit. And that's the reason. Any changes for the BEC? I was told it will be harder for 2024. Well, I don't like this term harder or easier. Everything is harder or easier if you are not prepared. But again, the BEC exam is gone. There is no BEC exam anymore. I shared with you a playlist about what's happening to each exam. Please look at this playlist. You cannot use the term easy or difficult. Those terms don't exist. Even if the exam is easy and you're not prepared, you will fail. If the exam is difficult and you are prepared, you will pass. Easy and difficult are useless terms when it comes to the CPA exam. Whether you are well prepared or not well prepared, it's as simple as that. I attended one time audit, but I did not pass it. I get a very low score. To leave the user, this could be a reason. I'm not sure which CPA review course you are using, but you can supplement with nine. If you go to my website or have lectures, I have supplemental course for maybe I should do that. I'm just going to leave this opportunity. So leave the user. What I suggest you do is just share my screen and I can show you. If you go to four lectures, I'm assuming you are seeing the screen. Then you go under all courses. And if you have audit, whether you are taking it with vector, green, mild, sergeant, widely, I can supplement. So you can supplement for you. If you get a low score, it means you don't have a good understanding and you could start a free trial as well if you choose to. If you want to start a free trial, you can start a free trial to see if it's helping or not. Shridhar, I am preparing for BC planning for your first week in December. Good luck, Shridhar. Can you tell us what you are using? Komari, how to gain confidence? I am appearing in CA intermediate November 23, 60 days of left. I'm going to be honest with you. I am not familiar with this exam, but it doesn't matter which exam you are taking. You have to be well prepared. You have to learn the material. Hi, Mark. Shridhar, apply for NTS, but not received. Follow-up will come. Hopefully you still have the time to do that. Mahgut Perfect got it. Excellent. This is the playlist. Bar in which one, professor? Bar and information system and control. ISC. Look at this playlist. I just, I will share the playlist again. Look at the playlist that I shared. Look at the playlist that I shared. Give me one moment, please. Look at the playlist that I shared. It will give you the details. It's right above your past identity. Was the period extended to pass all the exam? Was the period extended to pass all the exam? I suggest, yes it was, but I suggest you contact your jurisdiction. Roy, you're most welcome. What to focus on the IT for the ISC? You focus on everything, because if I tell you what to focus on, they're giving you even more topics that no one ever heard of. So what to focus on? You don't play Russian roulette on the CPA exam. You don't focus on anything in particular. You study everything and anything you can get your hands on. You don't play Russian roulette. If we know which topics you're going to be tested on, we only teach you those topics for the CPA review courses. Don't play this game. Your friend might call you, that's what they saw on the exam. It doesn't mean you are going to get it. You may get something else or you may get it. But what I'm saying is, you don't play this game. When do we expect to decision for the 30 month extension? Well, that's based on the State Board of Accountancy. It's when they decide, I have no say in that obviously, you have to follow with your State Board of Accountancy. If someone passes the BEC Audit, the score will reset to June 30th. So he was to pass all three course section, just a few courses. Again, yes, they pass BEC and it's active as of January 1st, 2024. Technically, they replace their specialization until June 30th, 2025. We'll have the remaining three sections to complete. The 30 month is accepted. The 2024 candidate will get, again, those 30 months have accepted. I cannot answer these questions. And then when they are accepted, they will have specific rules for each jurisdiction. Yes, everyone is trying to take BEC. Absolutely, it's a mad rush. Anahit, from the material, the same level of difficulty as other. Anahit, difficulty. Again, we're back to that question. Is it more difficult than other, less difficult than other? Historically, historically, I'm not going to use the term difficult in BEC because again, I just mentioned, they are relatively historically, BEC has the highest passing score historically. So what am I saying? Historically, around 55% to 60% is the pass rate in the BEC as the highest pass rate, versus far in all that we're doing in the 40s to the 50s. So if you want to look at the pass rate, if you want to consider the pass rate as a measure of difficulty and ease, which I don't believe that, then BEC is considered the easiest. But I don't use those terms because everything is easy, if you are prepared, everything is difficult if you are not prepared. So there's those. You're not comparing two difficulties. We cannot compare difficulties of the same. If you are not prepared, it doesn't matter how easy that exam is, you will fail. If you are prepared, it doesn't matter how difficult you are. So that question is unanswerable from that perspective. Talal, MBA, Salam, Talal, Lionel, I'm taking BEC on November 13, in place that I would need to retake it and I apply again to take it December 15 from the last day, Lionel, contact your state board of accountancy. They'll be able to help you with that. I want to become a CPA. What's the first step? The first step is to apply to NASBA. NASBA.org. The first step is to apply to NASBA, get your education evaluated. I see you are MBA. I hope you have an accounting degree, your MBA plus your accounting degree from an educational perspective. Sherry, hello, I prepare audit in the next year in new material. So the website will be updated with the new material. Yes, the website will be updated. Some of the courses are already updated, which CPA review course is under way. Because so far, Becker updated the audit course. One month is one month and Menge is asking, is one month enough to pass the ECM, a full-time student? One month is enough and one year is enough. That all depends on how fast you're learning the material. Now, if you're a full-time student studying, of course you have an advantage. You still have to learn the material. How fast you can learn the material, each individual is different. Can one person finish it in one month? Absolutely, yes. They can finish the ECM in one month. They're studying full-time. Can another person finish the ECM in one month? No, they are not prepared to college. They are not familiar with the topics. They are familiar to learn every topic from here on. Then review and then prepare. Then they will not have enough time. So it all depends on you. How fast you can prepare? What is your academic abilities? How familiar are you with the topics? For example, if you are familiar with managerial accounting, cost accounting, that's helpful. If you are familiar with finance, that's helpful. If you are familiar with Econ, that's helpful. If you are familiar with IT, it's helpful. If you are material corporate governance, that's helpful. If you are comfortable with those seven topics, I would say seven months will be definitely good enough for you. Absolutely. Good morning. I already passed RAC. I think the ECP will be easier for me to pass instead of DEC, what do you think? Yes, a good idea. If you don't like written communication, if you want to avoid written communication, if you want to avoid this IT that they are testing on, which is everybody finding difficult with IT, so yes, I will wait. If you took RAC and you are comfortable with taxation, you already studied corporate partnership, which will be on DCP. Yes, excellent question. If you already passed RAC, don't take DCP especially if you are comfortable and confident in taxes. Since you passed RAC, you must be. So yes, carry on that strength to take DCP rather than take RAC and take your chances with IT. If someone, I did not insert someone's chat, please post it again because I'm going through the chat at some time. I switched screen, I missed the chat, so I apologize to anyone who I did not pass the message. Please type the message again. Absolutely, your most welcome. What are you using? What are you using? What are you using? Once again, anyone that's watching, this is my website, rhablectures.com and what I have is supplemental CPA review courses for orbit, BEC, FAR, RAC, which is whatever company you are working with, you have, I have a CPA review course that's going to help you for example, if you're taking FAR better, if you click on FAR better, or if you're taking FAR DC, you'll click on FAR DC and you'll have a supplemental course that is aligned with your course. So for example, deafening, if you're taking, this is my DC supplemental course, that's aligned just like backer, B1 and 1, B1, M2, B1, M3, how to solve simulations, for example for deafening, if you're taking RAC, RAC backer, here's RAC backer, and you could always start your free trial. So that's how you can start your free trial for a few days or a couple days to see if that's, if that helps you or not, it should help you because I explained the material versus the CPA reports that they review it with you. So this is my backer supplemental, R1, M1, we have an exam, R1, M2, R1, M3, so on and so forth, just like backer to set up. Any questions, any comments, because I see, I believe I addressed all the I addressed all the chat, once again if someone skipped it, because I did not see it. Only a couple more minutes to see if someone has any other questions. If not, I will call it for the day. See other chat here, make sure more about Facebook, just in case someone posted, they have three comments. Thank you, congratulating me about the new website. I guess Facebook comments don't show here. What challenges do candidate face in studying for the CPA? What challenges do they face? I just saw the Facebook, I guess Facebook comments in my chat here. To me, the main point of studying for the exam is not knowing the topic, because when you take the CPA review course, it's a review course. It is not a teaching course. They don't teach them here. Therefore you will need something like my website to do what, to help you understand the topic. I see the Facebook comments don't appear, so I apologize for the people who did not. They have a chat box on the right hand side, but it only shows LinkedIn and YouTube. It doesn't show Facebook comments. I just noticed that they have three comments. Any other questions, comments? Thank you, Hamam. Thank you, Hassan. Thank you. Any other questions, comments about CPA exam preparation, the new CPA exam, anything to that matter? Let me see if there's any other messages here as well. Just in case, in this way. Once again, if you're watching, you could always start a free trial with Fahat lectures. It's going to supplement any CPA review course you are thinking. It's really easy to start the free trial. You go to the website and you just click on your course, whatever course you make. Say two clicks to get to the sample. Now you're studying as an accounting student and you're looking for accounting courses. Here's my accounting courses. Same topic. Let's assume you are. Same concept. You're studying for intermediate accounting. You would click on intermediate accounting and you would start free trial for the course. So that's easy as well. That's easy to follow. Same thing if you're studying for the CMA or the EA exam. You can start the free trial, see if it's helping you. That's the case. You keep it otherwise. It's a free trial. It doesn't really matter you will cancel it. You only have three hours in accounting. How can I get the extra hours? So you have three hours in accounting and you want to get the CPA exam. You have many options, one of them. First, let me ask, are you in the US or outside the US? Link the user you're most welcome. Link the user you're most welcome because it makes a difference. Regardless, there's a company called CMA.com and they will help you complete your credits. They will help you complete your credit. But you want to make sure you have a bachelor's degree if that's all what you are. I have three credits of accounting. Are you saying you have the three remaining or do you need three credits to qualify or you only have three and you need the remaining? Those are two different things. You are in Bahrain outside the US. This is an online. It doesn't really matter. If you're telling me you have three credits remaining, you have a master's degree, okay? And what an accountancy and some other... What's only three? Only three credits remaining to get your credits or you only have three and you need the remaining? That's what I'm talking about. I only have three in accounting. You only have three credits in accounting right now or do you have three remaining credits? Your master's in economics, okay? You don't have an accounting degree. Is it possible to pass an audit exam without having any practical experience in audit? Please provide help study for audit in 2024. Yes, I mean the majority of people that pass the audit exam don't have any experience in audit. How to study for the exam in 2024 is how to study for the exam in 2023. How to learn the concepts. I'm assuming you took an audit course in college. You took an audit course in college. Learn the concept. Get a CPL review course. Use FARCHA lectures. So if you want audit, I have whatever CPL review course you take, I have audit supplemental course for it so you can take my course. If you don't have that background. Congratulations Nishank. I only have three now. I need to ask what's the most affordable way to do it. I'll try CPAcredits.com but make sure CPAcredits.com will get you this. That's in my opinion the most efficient, cost effective way. But I'm not sure if you have any other options in the screen. I doubt it. CPAcredits.com will be a good option for you. Any other questions? Before I call it, there are 10 people left in the chat. Once again, if you if you have chat somewhere, if you posted a message and I did not see it, please post it again. I love your IP simulation on ERD and databases. Thank you. You're most welcome. You're most welcome. I thank you for your message. I appreciate it. I greatly appreciate it. Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to leave you with my with my Ellen Lee if you'd like to set one-on-one meeting with me. If you have any questions about my material, you can set one-on-one to ask any questions about the material. How does it help? Thank you, Arwa. Thank you. Any other questions, comments, anything? I still have 13 people watching. Okay, everyone, that's good. Within 35 minutes, that's not bad. Again, I will appear again in a while. I'm always on social media, LinkedIn, YouTube. Reach out to me. I have my calendar. Visit my website www.foradmissions.com. Start your free trial. It's risk-free. You can go round. Good luck, everyone. Of course, as I say, always stay safe. Peace, everyone. Bye-bye.