Toughest Study Session accounting, different, difficult, specially, recently

irlfaan7

Guys I was wondering those who passed in this june test ... the study material you encountered which study session you found to be the most tricky/toughest...

I read a post recently that *SS9 FRA was a killer* though I skimmed trhough it didnt seem so difficult may be because I had a bit of accounting and things like deffered taxes etc.....

I know specially in finance exams some topics seem easy but examiner can test you with different angles and thus confuse you... So I shall really appreciate if you can provide some of the experiance you had so far

MonkeyBusiness

You are right; a lot of people have said that SS9 was the hardest. I'm about 2/3 complete with that SS right now and I'm not finding it too difficult. I am taking my time with it though and I had a fair amount of accounting classes in school.

Stats is probably my weak area, so I'll say any SS with hypothesis testing a t-stats and z-stats, etc.

jim8z3

In terms of what is being tested, SS9 was the toughest. Confidence interval and hypothesis testing is easy when you write the exam because the more difficult things aren't asked.

manasib

It was easily FSA DTL/DTA made my head go round and round

Siddimaula

SS17 AND SS5. SS9 was fun actually

ftwcfa

SS9 was a killer for me.. The end of chapter CFAI questions for SS9 reminded me how poorly I understood it. Figured it out in the end though, and it's all behind me now.

LokiDog2

I dont remeber the SS number but...the second SS in Fixed Income securities was really tough for me

amqata

The general consensus is going to be SS9. I scanned through it for the June exam and thought that it didn't look too bad. I ended up spending double the amount of time that I had originally allocated for SS9. Accounting is certainly not my passion, I more or less had to chain myself to my desk to get through it.

sgupta0827

I heard taxes and leases is a real pain, plus alt investments

ramzes

I would say SS9. However, the second SS in fixed-income is also quite 'fun'. Reading 62 from the other fixed-income SS is such a drag as well