Mastering Accounting Research for the CPA Exam

by Anita L. Feller

Overview

STUDY AIDS/CPA (Certified Public Accountant)

The first CPA review product of its kind to address the threeresearch components of the CPA Exam

You're a CPA Exam candidate. You've survived all those technicalaccounting courses and advanced courses on systems, auditing, costaccounting, and tax, and now you're ready to take the big exam. Butperhaps in those intermediate or advanced courses, you didn'treceive enough exposure to research in the accounting standards,the auditing standards, or the tax code. Help has arrived.

Now in a fully revised second edition, Mastering AccountingResearch for the CPA Exam provides CPA candidates with a thoroughfoundation of the authoritative literature, knowledge of thestandards, and strategies for researching the infobases for FAR(Financial Accounting and Reporting), AUD (Audit and Attestation),and REG (Regulation).

Easy to follow and apply, the new edition of this concise,user-friendly guide brings CPA Exam candidates up to speed quicklyon the research component of the Exam and:
* Updates all references to Web addresses and information onobtaining infobases
* Informs readers on changes to accounting standards
* Helps students review on the spot with quick study lists for FAR,AUD, and REG
* Offers new coverage and discussion of FAS 155 - 159
* Includes new practice review problems at the end of eachchapter

Without over-your-head technical jargon, author and CPA AnitaFeller clearly explains and illustrates the research strategies forFAR, AUD, and REG that every CPA Exam candidate needs to ace thesimulation sections of the CPA Exam.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470293386
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/09/2008
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Anita L. Feller, PhD, CPA, has taught accounting at the University of Illinois since 1990. She is contributing author to Wiley CPA Exam Review: Financial Accounting and Reporting annuals and contributing author, with David Ziebart, of Introduction to Applied Professional Research for Accountants, Second Edition. She has also coauthored multimedia training products for CPA review materials and teaches both financial accounting and reporting and business and economics concepts for CPA Exam preparation.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Research and the CPA Exam.

Chapter 2. Financial Accounting Research System (FARS).

Chapter 3. Contents of the Older Pronouncements.

Chapter 4. The FASB Statements.

Chapter 5. Selected Content and Linkages.

Chapter 6. Auditing and Attestation Research.

Chapter 7. Tax Research.

Chapter 8. Understanding Search Engines.

Chapter 9. Getting Ready for the Exam: The ResearchInterface.

Appendix A. Important Resources for the CPA Exam.

Appendix B. Helpful Hints for Infobases.

Appendix C. The CPA Sample Exam Interface.

Appendix D. Quick Study Lists.

Appendix E. Solutions to Chapter Questions.

Index.