Anyone want to sell me their CFE books ?

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I'm also the oldest associate that I know of in my office ... Unless there's a 35 year old auditor here

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@PwC1 we had a tax associate who was around 35 when he started (a second career). He was older then most managers lol. But if you ask me age is just a number 🤓

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Just have work pay for it

Not required for my job...

Get them off a torrent site. That's what I did. CFE since 2013. I an auditor with a CPA and CFA too. When I brought it up my coach said it would be disadvantageous to ask because firm would think Im preparing to leave.

PwC only paid for CPA Becker. All else was torrents. 26th floor in NYC has copies of CFA stuff lying around on north side of building lockers.

Lol I need the CFE though not the CFA material.. I tried to find it off torrent sites but there was no CFE material.. And wow!! CFA is really hard, I failed level 1 and never wanted to do it again.

Don't get discouraged. I had it before i came to PwC in my previous career... And it took me 7 years and many failed attempts. Level 2 is pure horror

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