#cpa studying

[taycpastudies]

8/15/23

Unit 2 is done!! Wow that feels great. I definitely didn’t actually learn a ton in there, but it feels great to know that now it’s “review”. Knowing that I’ve got the longest one out of the way is awesome, the only one left with over 6 hours of lecture is Unit 6, which is economics and makes a lot of sense to me.

Tomorrow morning before work I’ll do as much review as I can (1.5-2 hours), and depending on how I feel I’ll take the first mini exam either tomorrow after work or Thursday morning. Probably tomorrow afternoon. I’m sure I’ll fail it either way, but I retake all the mini exams after I do final review, so that’s when it would worry me to do that.

The last two modules in Unit 2 over financial decision models made a lot more sense to me than the rest, and once I went back to the modules on working capital they made a lot more sense. Hopefully I can power through the last 4 units and the final review in the next 3 weeks. Either way, I’m locked into my test date because I had to get it approved by my manager, so I’m determined to give it my best shot!

[andrewmnyard]

something that makes me laugh is the “going concern” reporting requirement in auditing. it means you don’t think the company will stay in business in the year following the audit. literally u have to write and publish a paragraph that boils down to “we have CONCERNS that this company is GOING out of business!!! and management hasn’t said ANYTHING that changes our mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

[togrowoldinv]

Secret Santa

Natasha Romanoff x Female Reader

When Natasha gets your name for Secret Santa, she tries to think of the perfect gift for you

Note: I’m back! Well, technically I never left but I’ve been up to my ears in studying for the cpa exam. I took what was hopefully my last exam today, and let Natasha come back into my brain lol. Enjoy this holiday fluff!

Natasha Masterlist 1, Natasha Masterlist 2, Natasha Masterlist 3, Main Masterlist

“Okay, on to the topic of the Christmas party. What if do Secret Santa names this year?” Tony suggests.

“What does that entail?” Steve asks what everyone else is thinking.

“Well, we’d all write down a few things we like. It gives the person who gets your name an idea of what you want,” Tony explains.

“I like it,” Steve agrees. “What does everyone think?”

A chorus of sures and okays follow.

“Y/n, can you take care of it?” Steve asks.

You agree easily. You’ve always loved the holidays so the idea of helping the Avengers have a good one is exciting. Especially since it’s your first year with the team.

You get everyone’s names on notecards and spend the rest of the day getting everyone to fill them out with gift ideas. Wanda helps you collect them from the team before the next team meeting the next morning.

“Okay, everyone I have all of the names here. Draw one and whatever you get is what you have. No switching allowed,” you tell the team, mainly Tony.

You eyeball him as you say it and he at least pretends to look offended before he grins.

When you get to Natasha, you smile at her shyly.

“What if I get my own name?” She asks with a smirk.

She reaches into the bowl of names before you can answer. Her expression is unreadable as she looks at the card.

“Good?” You ask.

“It’s good,” Natasha replies.

You move on and keep going until everyone’s been picked. You got Wanda, which should be super easy.

On the other hand, Natasha got you. She thinks about it for a few days before deciding that she doesn’t want to get you anything on your list. She decides to go to your best friend on the team for advice.

“You got a second?” Natasha asks, knocking on Wanda’s open doorframe.

“Oh,” the girl is caught off guard. She doesn’t spend much time talking to Nat aside from about missions. “Sure.”

Natasha walks in and closes the door behind her. She sits down at Wanda’s desk across from where the girl sits on her bed.

“Is everything okay?” Wanda asks.

Natasha doesn’t immediately assure her it is and she gets worried. “So, I got y/n for secret santa.”

Wanda’s tenseness goes away and she can’t help a little smirk forming as Nat is talking.

“And I know she has things on this list,” she says. “But I don’t think a single one of these things is good enough for her. I don’t know what I should get for her, but she deserves the best gift.”

“Natasha,” Wanda interjects. “You’re taking this way too seriously.”

“Oh,” Nat expresses. “She- well she loves Christmas, right? I saw how excited she’s been about the tree and then the secret Santa and the movies. All of it. I want it to be special for her.”

“That’s really sweet,” Wanda says. “You like her, huh.”

“Can you help me?” Natasha keeps the focus on the conversation at hand. She does like you though.

“Of course. Anything for y/n.”

“Thank you,” Natasha says, feeling the relief set in.

The two brainstorm ideas for a couple of hours. When Wanda shows late for your usual nightly dinner, she wears a grin.

“What?” You ask her. “Fun with Vision?”

Wanda chuckles and you share a laugh with her.

“Who’d you get for Secret Santa?” You ask her.

“I can’t tell you,” she says.

“Sure you can.”

“Who’d you get?” She counters.

“I can’t tell you.”

“Sure you can,” she mocks you.

The rest of the days leading up to Christmas go by fast. Unfortunately everyone had to go on a mission on Christmas Eve, so you’re all exhausted on Christmas Day morning.

Tony postponed the gift exchange until later in the day, and everyone is much more rested by then.

Even with the hustle and bustle, you notice Natasha hasn’t made it to the get together yet.

“Hey Clint, where’s Nat?” You ask the archer. He was working closely with her on the mission.

“I think she just needed to take some time alone.”

“Oh, okay.”

You go about the party for a few more minutes before deciding to go check on Natasha.

You go to her room and knock on the door. She takes a minute to answer, but finally the door opens to reveal a distressed Natasha.

Her hair is messy and she’s wearing a hoodie and sweatpants. You haven’t seen her this way before.

“Hey,” you say. “We missed you down there.”

“Sorry,” she says. “Uh, come in.”

Her room is clean and exactly like you expected it. There are a few photos of Natasha and Clint’s family on a dresser, but that’s really the extent of the decor.

“Are you okay?” You ask her.

“Yeah, just a bad mission.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be,” Nat says. “It’s a me problem.”

“Hey, we’re teammates. And- we’re friends. It’s an us problem.”

Natasha can’t help but smile a little at that. You make her feel better by just being here.

“I don’t think I’m in the party mood. The guys aren’t so sensitive to my feelings.”

“Hey, that’s alright. I’ll just take your gift if you want me to. I’ll make sure it gets to the right person,” you explain.

“Oh, actually I had you. And I didn’t get a gift off of your list.”

Your eyes go wide. You didn’t even consider that Nat would get you. Thinking back to your list, you hope she didn’t find anything you wrote down as lame.

“Not because they were bad ideas. It’s just- I wanted to do something more meaningful,” she reads your mind.

Natasha crosses the room and grabs a box out of her closet. It’s wrapped nicely.

“You wrapped that?” You ask.

“You seem surprised,” Nat jokes. “I have skills.”

“Oh, I’m aware,” you say before blushing a bit. She smirks.

She hands you the box and you sit down on the edge of her bed together to open it. Nat watches you shyly as you open the gift.

“Natasha,” you whisper as you reveal the gift.

It’s a beautiful locket necklace.

“Open it,” she says.

On the inside of the locket, there’s a photo of your family. Your favorite photo to be exact.

“How did you-“

“Wanda helped,” Nat says. “I know you’ve been missing home since you joined the Avengers. I thought you’d want to have a piece of them with you on missions.”

“Natasha, that’s- well that’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for me,” you say, fighting back tears.

“You like it then?”

“I love it. Thank you,” you say sincerely. “Will you put it on me?”

Nat nods and takes the necklace from your hands. She unclasps it and stands behind you to put it around your neck. Her hands are gentle as she clasps the necklace and brushes against your skin.

“Beautiful,” she says when you stand and face her.

“You are, yeah,” you surprise her by saying. You dare to reach out for her hand. She takes it easily and interlocks your fingers. “I wish I got you something.”

“Oh, I think you just gave me the best gift,” Natasha says.

“I did?”

“Mhm,” she confirms. “Come here.”

Natasha leans in, pulling you closer to her with the hand that’s free by the back of your neck. Her gentle hand from before has a bit more urgency.

You can’t help but smile as she kisses your lips. Finally, both of you think. Finally.

“Merry Christmas, y/n,” Natasha says when she breaks for air.

“Merry Christmas, Natasha.”

It doesn’t take long before you add a photo of Natasha to the other side of your locket. She’s with you always. Right beside your heart.

[pinkacademiaprincess]

life lately: studying for the cpa exam 📕🧠📝💗

some motivational pics for myself b/c i'm deep into studying for the cpa exam and the light at the end of the tunnel for me is passing scores 😅🥹🤞

[seminalstudy]

🎧 currently listening to: acceptance tender wednesday morning

anyone else tried out spotify's new daylist?

[wttcsms]

✧ open requests ✧

i will be fairly inactive starting early-to-mid november all the way up to january (i know, what will the people do without my constant shitposting). while i do have some drafts i'm finishing up for chapters of my series and the requests for the events i've hosted prior (no, i never forget!!! im just a slow writer lol).

to have some new content while my blog is being run on a queue, i will be opening my askbox officially for requests!!!

i don't have any rules. if i don't fw what you're asking for, i'll just sweep it under the rug and pretend i didn't see it ^-^ i am down for yandere/dc.

any characters from these fandoms: blue lock, haikyuu, genshin impact, attack on titan, jujutsu kaisen, kuroko no basket, my hero academia, kaiju no. 8, solo leveling

when making your request, you can make it as open-ended/generic as you want (character + basic concept or kink or whatever you're wanting) or as descriptive as you want. please specify sfw or nsfw.

thank you! love you all! will miss you lots x

[ckmstudies]

August 2nd:

I decided to push this exam back. I was so stressed out and never meeting my study goal each day and just falling further and further behind. My mom finally pulled me aside and told me to move my exam that this stress isn't worth it when it might cause me to make a worse score. It cost $35 to move the exam but now I'll take it September 6th instead of August 25th. I redid my study schedule leading up to the exam and now my daily goal is two modules a day which is much easier than the three I was trying to do and never got to. It's also easier to convince myself to start the work when my to-do list is shorter. Today I studied for three hours and forty minuets and finished up module three and got half way through module four. I'm very happy with this as I got a slow start to my day with having to switch everything around. I'm so much more relaxed now that I have more time!

Today's accounting topic: The economic order quantity inventory model attempts to minimize total ordering and carrying costs and can be applied to the management of any exchangeable good. Just-In-Time inventory model was developed to reduce the lag time between inventory arrival and inventory use.

Other activity: I finally finished a full crochet clothing item! I finished a blue shirt and I love it so much. I've weaved in all the ends and blocked it and got to wear it to dinner with my mom.

[bloggin-til-cpa]

Little starbies studying action going on. That pumpkin spice latte gmfu I’m lactose intolerant 😭

Also, they took out every wall outlet for customers at this Starbucks. That is just horrible!!! Was looking forward to charge all my gadgets but my battery pack came to the rescue!

[daforged]

going to poke the hornet’s nest and say that opinions on the site itself & its moderation & content aside, if anyone on this godforsaken site knew how to read a budget or financial statements they would never donate to ay oh three ever again. what do you fucking mean you had net income of 400k last year. they, as a nonprofit, are making twice what they need to cover their expenses basically every year i promise you don’t need to donate another cent. they have a fat fucking reserve. spend your money literally anywhere else

[anak1n]

maybe i should get a second job

[duskite]

first ever render!!! i literally do not know what I'm doing on blender so big shoutout to @salemsimsrender for their very informative tutorial

[taycpastudies]

2/5/2024

Back into it! Started restudying yesterday for my last CPA exam! I’m manifesting that this will be my last take, and in August after I hit my 1 year work experience I’ll be a CPA!

Frustratingly, I have to wait until June to get my score even though my exam is in mid-March, which is pretty dejecting, but I’m sure I have enough time in the next 6 weeks to really get well prepared!!!

[fazcinatingblog]

Had a really nice sleep, it was like 30 minutes sleep dreaming that I was going to the grand final, wake up, check bank balance hmm no I'm not, sleep for 30 minutes dreaming I got a ticket, wake up check bank balance yeah no sorry, sleep for 30 minutes RINSE AND REPEAT THE ENTIRE NIGHT

[togrowoldinv]

Thinking about beefy!Nat playing football and giving R her jersey after the game

[andrewmnyard]

also im taking next section of the cpa exam on friday (two days!!!!). abt to do my corrections on my first two practice exams and then take the third (final!!!) practice exam…. I don’t feel ready lol

[seminalstudy]

missing the endless sunshine august had on offer