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Rambly CPA Prep Geeking
Oct. 28th, 2008 03:12 pmLast night, on a whim, I googled someone I dated once upon a time. I found him in a video I can't link you people to because YouTube is verboten at the office.
He was doing quite the competitive act with fire spinning (staffs, poi, teeterboards). I watched for a little while. He wasn't half bad, but he was working indoors, which does tend to make things a little dull. And then Danger Lad! decided that he could not countenance that much playing with the computer, not even if it meant he got to watch folks juggle fire, and led me off on the standard evening round of water to drink, water to splash, a tour of every bear in the house, and demands for bananas.
I'm going to talk about studying for the CPA exam here. If that bores you, too bad. What, are you strapped to your chair, with your eyelids taped open? Is the scroll bar busted? There's nothing else you could be doing? No small people who need bananas?
I was preparing for the Regulation section, and I was doing okay at that, actually. Decently prepared. Should do some last minute review, but it'll be fine, so I started in on the Audit and Attestation prep, and that's a train wreck. I started giggling as I hit the wrong answers on the multiple choice homework. The exam prep people recommend that I memorize the standard three paragraph audit report, and I can see how that would help, but so far I have been unable to do anything but stare at it. Blankly. It is not going into my brain.
My brain has all kinds of junk in it. Big hunks of Kipling and Houseman. Large sections of King Lear. Mr. Brown Can Moo. I can memorize text, I tell you! But it helps if there's some meter to tow me along. Perhaps if the standard auditor's report was recast in iambic pentameter, or set up in four-beat lines divided by cesurea, I would be more able to tackle it. Maybe if it rhymed. I've memorized plenty of prose in my time - but the standard auditor's report doesn't sing. It utterly lacks any kind of useful mnemonic structure. Even the available alliterations are too abbreviated to be assistive.
At this juncture, a really energetic and dedicated person would do the damn thing as a sonnet. Or a villanelle. I am not that person. But if you are, I could send you cookies.
He was doing quite the competitive act with fire spinning (staffs, poi, teeterboards). I watched for a little while. He wasn't half bad, but he was working indoors, which does tend to make things a little dull. And then Danger Lad! decided that he could not countenance that much playing with the computer, not even if it meant he got to watch folks juggle fire, and led me off on the standard evening round of water to drink, water to splash, a tour of every bear in the house, and demands for bananas.
I'm going to talk about studying for the CPA exam here. If that bores you, too bad. What, are you strapped to your chair, with your eyelids taped open? Is the scroll bar busted? There's nothing else you could be doing? No small people who need bananas?
I was preparing for the Regulation section, and I was doing okay at that, actually. Decently prepared. Should do some last minute review, but it'll be fine, so I started in on the Audit and Attestation prep, and that's a train wreck. I started giggling as I hit the wrong answers on the multiple choice homework. The exam prep people recommend that I memorize the standard three paragraph audit report, and I can see how that would help, but so far I have been unable to do anything but stare at it. Blankly. It is not going into my brain.
My brain has all kinds of junk in it. Big hunks of Kipling and Houseman. Large sections of King Lear. Mr. Brown Can Moo. I can memorize text, I tell you! But it helps if there's some meter to tow me along. Perhaps if the standard auditor's report was recast in iambic pentameter, or set up in four-beat lines divided by cesurea, I would be more able to tackle it. Maybe if it rhymed. I've memorized plenty of prose in my time - but the standard auditor's report doesn't sing. It utterly lacks any kind of useful mnemonic structure. Even the available alliterations are too abbreviated to be assistive.
At this juncture, a really energetic and dedicated person would do the damn thing as a sonnet. Or a villanelle. I am not that person. But if you are, I could send you cookies.
