I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while. For anyone without the Bisk CPA Review books and wanting a new perspective on Accounting Changes or Business Combinations should Goto the Bisk Support: Updating Supplements website and click V.38.3- Financial Accounting & Reporting, you should find a 160 Page PDF update file. There’s also updated AICPA released Q&A’s, snippets of other chapters, and the following 2 COMPLETE chapters:
- Chapter 11 – Reporting the Results of Operations – Pages 29-58
- Chapter 17 – Consolidated Financial Statements – Business Combination – Pages 75-99
Yaeger sucks it up once again on their coverage of Wiley Module 16 – Business Combinations, which caused me to look for more outside help. HOLY CRAP PHIL, please stop jumping right into topics and/or reading directly from the book. Instead, try providing some background and quick overview/explanation on what exactly the term “business combination” refers to… I mean, gosh darn, you’re supposed to be a teaching review course right?
Basically, the only time its worth taking notes for 2009 FAR Homestudy is when Cindy is teaching. Everyone else reads from the book and expects you to know what everything is before hand. Yaeger is 60% full of it when they claim to be a teaching review course. Teaching review course my ASS. At least Gary gives some conceptual overview on his sections. Phil has absolutely no presentation skill whatsoever and his lack of preparation shows. It’s quite sad since his name is on the damn CD. The farther I get into Yaeger, the more I hate it and the fact that I spent money on false claims and lined the pockets of a crappy CPA that couldn’t find work as college professor.
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There is a lot of information that is actually helpful. Thank you.
You post is exactly how but you forgot to mention that the claim of directly speaking to instructors is a false claim as well. I called on a Sunday (when most people are studying) to talk with phil and I was told that he wouldn’t come to the phone on Sunday unless you had pre-arranged a meeting. And now I am stuck about 1-2 weeks before my test and I can’t get a diagnostic since the Wiley CD is the most pathetic non-user friendly software I have ever seen. Lastly, (although the list is really longer I’ll stop after this one) Yaeger CPA review does not edit their video, this is why they have 46 hours of FAR had they edited their video it would have been about 30-35 hours so that means your wasting your precious study time not to mention that you will see Phil do things like miscalculate basic math like 6% of 100,000.
YAEGER SUCKS!
Phil Yaeger is a crook and a cheat, on top of being Brooklyn-obnoxious. Customer service is rude and crass.
False claims abound with Yaeger.
Don’t get ripped off by these scam artists!
Don’t walk — run the other way!