Review of Roger CPA Course

In this video I am going to give you a little tour of Roger CPA Review and I'm

going to show you some of the things that I like about it. The main thing with

Roger is that it's really the lectures, it comes down to the lectures. So Roger

is going to be the best fit for you if for some reason you feel like you're

starting from scratch basically. When I was in school I didn't know about the Roger CPA Review, I didn't really look into it because we had a

class where we used CPA Excel and I just kept using it after that and it

ended up being great. I mean I passed all my exams, you've probably

read that article on my site that I passed all four pretty quickly. And the

thing that I do like about Rogers is the lectures are just very easy, they're

engaging, they're very easy to just sit there and absorb the information because

he's so animated and he's kind of intense and just energetic about

explaining CPA concepts which is hard to do but he pulls it off. So this is what

it looks like inside when you log in. I really like the layout and how clean it

is inside the members area and I like how he's broken down the topics. If you

expand all the topics in CPA Excel for example there are I want to say hundreds

I mean there are just a ton. This way you know you open each one it just seems

less daunting and he has consolidated some quite a few lessons to where there

are definitely fewer lectures inside of Roger but they are longer on

average than CPA Excel. I can tell by just looking at the lengths of time on

these videos but when you do click on one, liabilities I guess we'll look at. So

this is what you'll see once you get inside of a topic. Just this screen grab

alone I mean you can tell that this posture you wouldn't see that in a

single CPA Excel video. I don't think the CPA Excel videos are, well they have

several different lectures during the videos throughout the different sections of the test and some are really good. The people they have doing reg are really

good and smart, easy to listen to for some reason. The people they have doing

FAR go back and forth. Audit is just so boring. So the audit sections, sessions

from Roger are refreshing just because it has the same high energy. And then BEC

is another just pretty bad. Well there were some okay ones but the bottom line

is if you feel like you've got a lot to learn and you learn best by just

watching these video lectures, again just because it's a video in general, you can

stop, you know fast forward, go back to spots. One feature that I really like

inside of Roger is this new video bookmark. So you can set a bookmark here

and then later set another one. You can also keep specific notes attached to

specific lessons. And this one I like making my own flashcards as you know. So

that's not as, you know, I wouldn't really use that. But this video bookmark, having

gone through the entire study process, this is extremely valuable. So this is a

very, this is a huge thing that I like with Rogers is you get to keep your set

bookmarks at certain points in videos. There were several topics that were

really tough for me to understand and if I would have been able to bookmark the

specific spot in the video lectures where they were explained and just go

back and watch all of them, you know, like the day or two before I actually sat for

the exam, that would have been extremely helpful. I still did that but I wasted

you know, probably close to an hour or two just trying to track those certain

parts down inside the video lectures. The other thing I like is you have

the textbooks open right here on the right side. And you can do that with

CPA Excel as well. But you can just go through the textbook here. The next thing

is from inside of here you just click, go to the practice questions up here

Pick my section which is FAR. Now I do like this because if you've read my, if

you've read my Kindle book, Passing the CPA Exam the Easy Way, one of, one of the

two top things you can do to study for the exams is to every day as part of

your daily study session is to do a set of 30 multiple-choice questions based on

the topics that you've studied so far. So let's say that I was, you know, I had

gotten through these five, these first five sections. And then I go to next. I

want multiple-choice questions. And I go to 30. So then I just hit next down here. You can either add sections if you want or

begin the quiz. So you can do this two ways. You can go through, you can add

notes, answer the question. So if you just want to go through basically in test

mode, well that's what this is for. Score as I go. So I can answer this. If I want

to see this. Now this is something that, well, CPA Excel does have this feature

because you're inside of, you're inside of each lesson and the questions are all

contained with the video lecture. So never mind. I was gonna say you can't

click directly to the study materials. And it's true that in quiz mode once you

generate a set of questions inside of CPA Excel you can't do this. But usually

you're taking questions from inside each, each topic anyways. So you can see the

answer explained. This will say correct. If it's not correct you'll get a

different explanation. So I like, I like to go through each explanation when I

was doing these. So then I'll just show you what a, the last thing we'll do here

is I'll show you what a task-based simulation looks like. So that's gonna

ruin my progress, but it doesn't matter because I'm done with these stupid tests

So let's look, look at a simulation from cash and cash equivalents. No, let's not

Let's do a hard one. I am scheduled to sit for the exams and have access. Oh yeah. Oh there must not be

a topic for that. So let's just do. Now one, one advantage, task-based simulations

are important. So you do want to be able to study quite a few and CPA Excel has a

ton. I believe CPA Excel has the most practice task-based simulations of any

review course. So that's one advantage it has. Three, okay. Let's do three then. So

in all those topics there's only three. Okay. Begin quiz. Oh my gosh

This just makes me sick to look at these. I hated task-based simulations. List A

So this is maybe, it's not a huge disadvantage because you still get the

gist of the idea, but this does look different than what you'll see on the

actual exam. CPA Excels are formatted like exactly what they look like on the

real test. So you know that's like a slight advantage, but you do have these

to practice from and the explanations are, the explanations are good. If we hit

view solution, you've got these, the different answer or the different questions and the answer next to it. And sometimes these, these type are a

waste of time. It just depends. If this is a hard topic for you, then you'll want to

read these carefully until you understand them and then make yourself some flashcards for it. So those are, let's end this. That's kind of a walk

through of Rogers. How do I get out of here? Save quiz session. Oh right here. So

if I go home to the table of contents, so back on the home screen here, I just

wanted to show you this. So Rogers doesn't tie in. This almost won't make

sense unless you've seen the inside of CPA Excel. Each day when you log

into CPA Excel, if you've set your exam dates and set a study plan, it gives you

the exact lessons that you need to complete that day. Rogers doesn't do that

but you can set your date. Okay, so you can set this so that you can only see

that the amount of days until your test. But overall, the big selling point for

Roger review is the lectures. It makes it really easy to learn. The textbooks are

written by Roger himself, Roger Phillip, and they're very well done. So again, my

my biggest recommendation, if you're thinking about Roger, the Roger course, if

you feel like you're kind of starting over, if you've been out of school for a few years, even one year, and you're kind of, you just feel like you've gotten

behind or kind of forgot everything you learned in college, then the best choice

for you is probably the Roger course, just because it's so comprehensive and

it's a lot easier to learn everything again because of how engaging the

lectures are. So that would be my biggest piece of advice for Rogers