u/Realitybytes_

Potentially famous last words.

Zero accounting background (high finance career) applied for exec pathway to CPA for fun, only had to sit ethics and governance to get my CPA.

Hadn't opened the text book past page 40 and decided it looked pretty simple and stopped studying, sitting my exam at 8 this morning. Which was open book...

63 MCQ 60 of those you could easily gleen the answer but looking up the key concept in the index of the text book, the other 3 required you to have looked at a supplementary document. If you're not a fast reader / able to look up things quickly, highlighting key concepts and tabs would make this miles easier.

Short answer was 4 questions where you had to explain what the bad behaviour was from the CFO and explain how the company could fix it. Having a basic understanding of ethics and risk management would make this a breeze.

While I'm definitely jumping the gun assuming I've passed, that as the only exam I need to sit to become a CPA seems ludicrously easy.

Hope everyone else sitting had a easy question bank!

I visit Spain with my family a couple months ago, and met a really cool crowd of Venezuelans, a couple and and my fam really hit it off (he works in the same VERY niche field of work as me, she works in same field as my wife).

We've been speaking to them for months on whatsapp and they even came to Germany when we were there recently to catch up.

They expressed they'd love to visit Australia as part of like honeymoon (they are engaged to be married, and looks like we'll be attending their wedding).

We'd love to gift them a holiday as we are quite fortunate (and sounds like their last few years sucked completely to say the least), however they mentioned they have visa issues everywhere except certain European countries.

If we pay their flights, accommodation and give them some spending money, would like be allowed to visit? Anxious about being a personal guarantee as while we consider them friends still unwilling to tie myself to closely to anyone...