It’s been a while since I’ve made my last post, which is very much expected. I’m still having a hard time in adjusting in my schedules to the point that although I have some time left to blog about things, I’m too tired to do it. Anyways, these very infrequent postings will continue until the end of the October 2008 CPA Board Examination.

To document my final quest of being a CPA, hopefully this is the last, I’ve created another category for my ramblings. I named it “The Making of a CPA”. I will be publishing everything about my current review experiences, which is in CPAR. Infrequent as expected, but I hope my post will give ideas to my fellow reviewees or those who will be reviewing in the next semester how it is in CPAR. A real time documentation and not just hear says. Here is the first of the series.

Introductory Week at CPAR : The First Impressions

For every first days, everything started with a bunch of anticipation and speculations, but I guess mine was far less than the first time reviewees. My concern was the review proper, the reviewers and of course a good relationship with my review buddy. That’s all! I’m not thinking of meeting new friends, it will be just a bonus if I will have a few.

The week started with Theory of Accounts, Practical Accounting 1 and Business Law on Monday. The reviewer on ToA and P1 is Mr. Thomas A. Siy III, and honestly, I really appreciate the way he started the topics. Putting away all introductory jokes and anything, he started with the topic “Time Value of Money”. I didn’t expect it to start in that area but it was timely for my needs, and I guess for others as well. There are a few points in that topic that I’m really unfamiliar, which I was thankful that I was introduced.

The Business Law and Taxation reviewer came out of the box. He is Atty. Dante O. Dela Cruz. A very witty and jolly old man. The “Ultimate Berde” as Mr. Thomas Siy said yesterday. Why? You’ll know what I mean when you hear most of his jokes. Nevertheless, those jokes never goes out of topic. They are always related to a particular explanation, making things easier to understand. As per first impression, the hear says that CPAR has a very good BLT reviewer is quite surprisingly true.

Down to Practical Accounting 2 by Christopher I. German. The first meeting isn’t that remarkable. I actually doubt that he is a good reviewer. But those thoughts vanished when we meet again last Thursday. Unexpectedly, he presented topics in a way anyone can really appreciate. He highlight important points and keeps reiterating those to keep us reminded. Damn! I hope that flow will continue until cost accounting. I’m really zero-knowledge on that particular field, thanks for my l*** undergrad professors.

I cannot say more about our Auditing Theory reviewer Gerardo S. Roque because we didn’t actually start the review proper during the first meeting. It’s much more of an introduction.

With no offense, I was really disappointed to our Management Advisory Services reviewer Dean Apolinario D. Bobadilla. Compared to Mr. Franklin Agamata when I was still in PRTC, I don’t think he presents discussions wherein his reviewees could easily comprehend. This is just a first impression though, things might change as we go along the review.

Auditing Problems is led by Dean Archimedes E. Ibay. Nothing remarkable on the first meeting. I wasn’t actually impressed on how things are presented to us. That was the same impression I got from the reviewer of PRTC in AP. There may be a few reason why. One reason is that AP is too procedural that presenting it interestingly without going through the boring step by step computations is too difficult for reviewers.

Okay. I guess I’ve documented all of my first impressions in all of the subjects. As I have said, those are just first impressions and will eventually change as I go along the review. As much as I can, I will try to document weekly experiences here in my blog. Also, I will be posting some CPA review materials given by our reviewers here. I’m seeing few google searches about that and I guess it will be very helpful if aspirants will find things that they are looking for here.

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