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Yes. Not because of the age of the person but 1) your resposabilitys at work increase which means you have less time to study. 2) you are out of school for longer so the cram for an exam mentality and mental muscle memory isn't as strong.
I worked with a couple I saintly talented senior's who studied for the CPA and couldn't pass one test yet my idiot butt did just fine
Statistically the pass rate goes down with age, probably for the reasons above plus added family responsibility.
It’s just harder to be motivated and dedicated to studying the longer you’ve been out of school plus you tend to have more responsibilities like family the longer you wait.
Easy to get done when you’re still fresh out of college when it still feels like cramming for a final.
A bachelors degree in accounting does a shitty job of preparing you for a job in accounting but it does a fairly good job of preparing you for the CPA exam so take the GD exam before you forget everything from college. IMO
My director passed it in his 40s. Super motivated and able to partition time off for it. Pass it when you can pass it.
The older you get the harder it is to justify the hours. The retention rates in PA for non traditional first years (already had a career doing something else) is something like 5%.
@PWC1 me too! Someone actually used this supposed fact against me when I was trying to negotiate starting salary. I felt I was bringing a useful skill set to the table with my many years of industry accounting experience prior to becoming a CPA. It seemed like a no-brainer to me so I was surprised when he shot me down using this tidbit as the counter. It might be true, what do I know? But I knew it wouldn’t be true for *me* so I just checked that firm off the list and moved on to the next!
I found it easier to pass later on, and I had much more going on in my social and personal life when I did eventually pass. I found work experience to be helpful and I just had no idea what was going on when I graduated college.