This is going to help you once you've finished the exams too man. Once you are a CPA you are going to need CPE or CPD (Continuing Professional Education, or Decelopment...whichever they call it in your state). One of the easist ways to do this is to actually continue to get additional qualifications. My senior manager poked his head into my office last year and asked if the firm would pay for a course and exam on anti-money laundering. Being as I act as MLRO for a number of funds I figured I bettr do the thing too. We had two weeks before the exam was going to be written when we put in our applications. Just to sit the exam you had to fill out a form that scored your qualifications and experience in the industry. If your score was high enough you qualified...which meant university degree, professional designation and experience was required.
Almost a week later I suddenly "woke up" to the fact that I was writing an exam in a week and that I hadn't even rec'd the materials. I wrote the people who put on the exam and was told that I should have been sent a link, but I hadn't received it. She resent and when I downloaded the first file (of two) and printed it, the material was 450 pages long! The second link was appendicees to the 450 pages. I discussed it with my manager and we agreed that we should just stay very quiet and not tell any of our clients that we were doing the exam because we figured there was a good chance we might not pass.
The day before the exam was a whole day of classes to help the writers prepare for the exam. There were police officers from the financial crime division, Financial Investigations Unit (a branch of our monetary authority), bank compliance officers and other professionals from financial service companies. Only two other accountants were there.
