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Welcome to the CPA Exam Guide

This project is an ever-continuous free crowdsourcing effort to improve the quality of study content for the CPA Exam. The goal is to provide a more focused study experience, complete with visual graphs, charts, tables, and more, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of studying for the exam. As with all crowdsourcing projects, although best efforts are made, there is no guarantee of complete accuracy.

We recommend you start your CPA journey by taking a look at the CPA Exam Overview page, which goes over what you can expect in the process, including structure, news, updates, and requirements.

Here are some more pages to check out:

For help in your studying, you can check out the individual study pages with study material:

• Auditing Section (AUD) Study Material
• Business Environment Concepts (BEC) Study Material
• Financial Accounting & Reporting (FAR) Study Material
• Regulation (REG) Study Material

You can also check out pages which talk about the background of the exam, including history, various state rules for licensure, pass rates, and more:

How To Contribute

Due to spam attacks, the wiki is set up to only allow verified users to contribute. Here are the steps to take in order to begin contributing:

1. Create an account by going to "create account" in the top right. Once created, your account will be active but will not have any abilities until you request approval.
2. Next, head over to https://www.reddit.com/r/CPAExam and make a post asking for approval and provide your created account username. As long as you make a request and don't appear to be a spam bot, approval will be granted.
3. You can check whether you are approved or not by going to the special pages tab on the left side, and choosing "user rights." Enter your username. This will tell you what groups you are a part of. If one of those groups are "verifiedusers", then you are approved and can begin editing.

This process is necessary to avoid spam or malicious links being inserted into the Wikipedia. This verification process provides a strong confidence that the content is safe.

Notes on Editing

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki is the user guide for MediaWiki.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages has good instructions on how to create and edit.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting provides good instructions on formatting.
To add a YouTube vide, paste in the video URL, and then wrap the URL in tags.
When editing, please use the "show preview" button to see how your changes look before submitting. This will help minimize the entries in the edit log.

CPA Exam Details

As of 2022, there are 4 main sections to the CPA exam:

Auditing	Business Environment & Concepts	Regulation	Financial Accounting & Reporting

Additional Notes

Comment on Copyright Materials

Any material that is originally created by someone and not intended for mass consumption cannot be posted. An example would be an instructional video on a study provider's website, where a fee is required for viewing. In my experience, much of the study material provided by study providers is copied from publicly available sources, such as IRS Publications, AICPA Publications, etc. These are free to be posted. If you see anything that you believe is copyrighted, please contact https://www.reddit.com/r/CPAExam. More info on the project can also be found at that link.