I found another CA blog out there - the first French Canadian one I've come across . If you have trouble reading Julien's French, run it through Google Translate. The translation's not perfect, but it'll do. The newest posting caught my eye ; in the spirit of hyper-critical UFE prep,...

A quick piece of math to share with you all. Math? I know, for a blog run by a CA, there's really very little math, eh? Don't act so shocked - in my day job I'm really more of an auditor than an accountant, despite what the "A" stands for in CA. Yes, this photo's only tenuous...

A week after they sent me the e-mail making it official, my certificate finally showed up at the office, proudly proclaiming to the world that I'm a CA. Whee! The other 1157 pieces of 'mail' where spams that hit me - roughly as much as last month . Although the ICAO should probably be ashamed...

They, meaning the board of evaluators, assign a range of 10 to 20% for four topics you're tested on in the UFE. And the range is 20- to 30% for the two big ones (assurance and performance management - hardcore auditing and accounting basically). Well, in 2006 the "heavies" only got 21%...

The overall pass rate on the 2006 UFE was 79.3%. The Board of Evaluators kills me as usual, though, by noting that they concluded that the 2006 exam was *harder* than the 2005 paper, but more people passed. In 2005, only 74% survived. What kills me, you see, is the fact that they decide *how good* your...

I think I stumbled upon the answer earlier tonight. It's at least 10 kilograms. I also found that half that is roughly enough paper to fill up a small blue box. I vowed to myself to clean up the insane jumble of papers in my room once I got the UFE out of the way - after all, if I want a larger monitor...