CPA Stephanie

Happy 1 year passing the CPA examaversary!!

It's hard to explain just how happy it makes me knowing I never have to study for that exam again!  Good riddance!!

Thank Goodness THAT is over!

You all know one of the things I'm most thankful for this year is passing the CPA exam.  I look back on all the time I spent studying and it is just such a relief to finally be done with that milestone.  I'll be thrilled once I finally get the final certificate and it is proudly hung on my wall at work!  This page commemorates all that hard work and includes pictures from my celebratory dinner at Bonefish Grill.

Happy Mail

This snippet of information was waiting in my mailbox tonight. Just had to smile because yes, I am a CPA!!

Celebratory Dinner

Jon & Jeremy met me at Bonefish Grill to help celebrate my CPA. The food was great and the company was amazing, as usual. Thanks guys!

CPA Success!

As most of you all know I’ve been working towards becoming a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) for what seems like forever… Well maybe more like almost 5 years now. It has been a long, slow, process, to say the least! To qualify you have to take and pass the 4 exams; Financial Accounting & Report, Auditing & Attestation, Business Environment & Concepts and Regulation within an 18 month period. This was significantly less challenging once I left the world of 55-70 hour work weeks in public accounting to much more laid back 40ish hour work week at Community Health Systems! (Shout out to my quasi-new Company!)

At 10:15am this morning the light bulb in my head went off that today could be the day that I find out if I am done studying for this blasted test! All week I kept intentionally forgetting that this day was coming. I held my breath and clicked the bookmark that had been in place, ready for this day, for over a month. The link opened and ta da, an 82!!! I passed!!! I have now passed all 4 sections in the allotted 18 months with over 3 months to spare! First a squeal of happiness then I proceeded to run around the office hugging everyone! And then I let out a sigh of relief that all the stress I had be holding on to for the past 5 years about this one single test diminished with the sight of that wonderful number… 82… :)