Wiley CPA Examination Review Practice Software 12.0 - Complete Set [CD-ROM]

Patrick R. Delaney (Author), O. Ray Whittington (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 29, 2007 | ISBN-10: 047179872X | ISBN-13: 978-0471798729

Completely updated for the new computerized CPA Exam, this comprehensive software product provides more than 3,000 questions and solutions, new AICPA simulation questions, and helpful guidelines, explanations, tips, and diagnostic feedback covering all four sections of the CPA Exam. This software is the most effective system available to prepare for the CPA exam.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 157 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (January 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047179872X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471798729
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,519,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Wow...From a major publisher, this is a horrid job!!, May 23, 2007

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W. Morakotkarn "GibbM" (Chicago 'burb) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wiley CPA Examination Review Practice Software 12.0 - Complete Set (CD-ROM)

I just want to lend another opinion in other areas of problem that the other reviewers didn't mention. Here's my summerized list of pros and cons:

Pros:

- Plenty and plenty of multiple choices that has been extremely helpful for my exam preparation.

Cons:

- Simulations have plenty of errors. There are questions that I could tell the answers aren't lined up correctly (Bond simulation is an example). There are prenty of wrong answers.

- Gazillin typos. Some can be very misleading and mess you up in the real eam.

- Simulation format isn't similar to the real exam.

- I found it very annoying that I can't finish the sims THEN compare the result with the answers. The answers keep popping up as you go on....and to make it worse, if you don't need to answer something, there is no way if that's the right answer. For example, you are given a set of check buttons that you can pick more than one answers. If you pick one either right or wrong, you get the response (which is good). But if you know that a choice is not part of the right answer, there's no way you can be sure unless you intentionally pick it anyway.

- Plenty of bugs. Quite a hassle for me to get it up and running on my Vista machine.

All-in-all, a good tool for studying multiple choices, not so much for simulations....

Good luck with your exam!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome for MC; Simulations need work, November 23, 2007

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Jacob J. Sperry (provo, ut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wiley CPA Examination Review Practice Software 12.0 - Complete Set (CD-ROM)

I agree with the bulk of these reviews so far. I've really enjoyed the MC selection--although the interface isn't as clean and friendly as it could be. The ability to focus on specific content questions really helped me polish up for FAR.

For those of you preparing for the exam with just books and videos, rather than a full online course paid for by your firm, this software is an awesome way to get access to loads of MC questions. Also, I really like that most of the answer keys for the questions not only explain to you why an answer is correct, but also why answers are wrong.

You can learn a lot more from the explanations from this software than from answer solutions from the back of a book--at least from my experience with Bisk CPA Ready.

The simulations are really lacking. Typos and bugs have been mentioned already so I won't dwell on them; however, they are nice to scroll through and get an idea of what kind of questions you can run into on the exam. Other than that, I'd suggest sticking to the MC.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good review software, September 14, 2007

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Brent D. Shea "reviewer" (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wiley CPA Examination Review Practice Software 12.0 - Complete Set (CD-ROM)

This is a good review software, plenty of great question, many of which appear verbatim on the exam. The review below "wow...for a major publisher, this is horrible" is written by a moron. If you want the answers to stop popping up, set it on test mode, not review mode. Though, he is right about the spelling errors, they definitely forgot to turn on their spell check.