CPA Educational Requirements Overview - May 2025 with CSUF Accounting Society
Accounting Professor
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Presentation is copyright, 2,008 to 2,025 by Bennett, Tchaikovsky, all rights reserved. Any distribution is strictly prohibited. Note that the presentation will refer to companies and other parties, or the 3rd parties. I do not claim any copyright that belongs to those 3rd parties.'}, {'start': '70.220', 'end': '91.459', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Also further disclaimers. I'm going to be brutal, honest, and direct with you, because I think you would probably appreciate that. And again, what I'm sharing with you are my opinions right? I spent a lot of time I've been teaching now for about a little bit more than 12 years. I mainly do. I've taught previously at Cal. State, Fullerton, Chaplin University."}, {'start': '91.710', 'end': '107.470', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Long Beach City College, Pasadena City College. But my main home base is at Ivc. But again, when I'm sharing with you different things, I want you to make sure that you're going through and doing your own research. I will also take this presentation that I'm making here today."}, {'start': '107.510', 'end': '123.949', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and we'll share it with you as well. Now, the other thing I also want to kind of mention is that for those of you who are joining the call. If you send me an email to Ivc 30 to cpa@gmail.com. And I'll put up that email address a little bit later."}, {'start': '123.960', 'end': '151.570', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I will go through and basically provide you with your own individualized Google Sheet. You'll go on to this Google Sheet. You will list out every class you've ever taken. And then I will go through and basically tell you where you are with regards to today's educational requirements. So if you've gotten the sheet, or if you haven't been able to fit, basically finish it yet, that's absolutely okay."}, {'start': '151.905', 'end': '158.620', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You can always contact me. After this I do a lot of these, and just to kind of give you a sense'}, {'start': '158.800', 'end': '162.759', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: in terms of how many of these mappings that I'm doing right now."}, {'start': '162.960', 'end': '170.319', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: all of these people here, all these individuals. And this goes back over a pretty huge period of time.'}, {'start': '170.650', 'end': '197.810', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I do just a couple of these right? So if you look at this is like, Oh, my goodness, right, this is absolutely insane. I I've done these mappings for a lot of different individuals. So this is just basically, since, like January, this is how many I've gone through. And I've done so. This is something I have when I was either the accounting society or bath reach out to me. It's like, absolutely yes, and in fact, I did one of these like a few years back."}, {'start': '198.459', 'end': '212.280', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So just a little bit about myself. I'm also known as the accounting professor on Youtube. This is my channel. So if you wanna watch, I have a lot of different videos relating to accounting that are up here."}, {'start': '212.797', 'end': '229.460', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Also, as I've kind of mentioned, I do teach accounting full time, and I have taught at Ibc full time since August 2020, 14, or been a while taught a lot of different subjects. I've also been a licensed Cpa since August of 1993."}, {'start': '229.640', 'end': '254.939', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I've been an attorney since June 97. So half of everything I say to you will be a lie because of the attorney side just kidding. In my prior life I worked as a Cfo for some smaller, publicly traded companies. I am right now, serving as a board member and Audit committee, designated financial expert for another publicly traded company, and, as I mentioned before, I've taught at Fullerton, Chapman Long Beach City College, and Pasadena City College."}, {'start': '254.940', 'end': '266.909', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I also interned at Coopers and live ran back in the summer of 1990. That tells you how old I am I? And then I worked there at Coopers, which is now Pwc. For full time.'}, {'start': '267.620', 'end': '277.870', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I'm gonna start this presentation off a little bit differently, which is, I know that the mapping is important, but I think the one thing I want to kind of impart on all of you"}, {'start': '277.970', 'end': '293.350', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: is that if you do if you're at Cal State, Fullerton taking classes. The most important thing I can really get across to you is that you need to be looking for a full time job, or an internship, or whatever it may have you."}, {'start': '293.640', 'end': '320.240', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: We are in one of the most challenging economies. This is just an article that basically came out it had Ivc on it. This is one of our graduates who's like 11 years old. I wish I had kids that were well, I've got 2 great kids. But this is an article about how challenging the current market is the other thing which is really interesting from a career, perspective and kind of what I've noticed"}, {'start': '320.380', 'end': '325.350', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: is that you have essentially a lot of people going into accounting.'}, {'start': '325.700', 'end': '333.819', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: When I started hearing students that were attending Usc, right? And how much does Usc cost to go to per year?'}, {'start': '335.260', 'end': '337.889', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: What do you think that costs to go to Usc per year?'}, {'start': '342.480', 'end': '343.510', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: What do you think.'}, {'start': '343.670', 'end': '344.300', 'text': 'leila slayton: Like overall.'}, {'start': '344.300', 'end': '345.460', 'text': 'leila slayton: 100 k.'}, {'start': '345.680', 'end': '362.750', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's probably gonna be over a hundred K, right? Unless you can throw that football. Shoot that basketball, or you're getting the free sports ride right it's a it's incredibly expensive. But when I heard about students that were at Usc. Going into accounting people at Berkeley, people at"}, {'start': '363.329', 'end': '386.969', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You know, use like these different elite schools going into accounting. I'm going, hey? There's something going on right now, and it's essentially if you are in the any accounting, Major. You're in a great major, but just remember that there is going to be a lot more competition also. Is there a lot of competition in terms of going into work in Irvine."}, {'start': '388.330', 'end': '390.619', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Do? Does everybody want to work in Irvine?'}, {'start': '391.150', 'end': '394.760', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I do right. It's an amazing place to go through and work."}, {'start': '394.940', 'end': '405.480', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and just to kind of give you like a little bit about my path in terms of recruiting for summer of 1990 I interviewed in January of 1990.'}, {'start': '405.720', 'end': '416.189', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What's crazy is right now? The Big 4 recruiters and I heard this directly from a big 4 recruiter, summer 25 and summer 2026 are full and Irvine."}, {'start': '416.470', 'end': '426.529', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: They are going to open up summer 27 in Irvine in August of this year. So it's a 2 year lookout window."}, {'start': '426.730', 'end': '433.109', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So the most important thing you can be doing right now is recruiting.'}, {'start': '433.240', 'end': '453.239', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What do you need to do to go through and recruit, and what we're going to be doing here today with looking at your units is a very important part of that. But do you have a resume done right? Where are you with regards to the 150 semester unit requirement. And I'm also going to show you how that's potentially going to go through and change to the 1 20."}, {'start': '453.570', 'end': '467.969', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Do you have a Linkedin profile. Right? If you want to connect with me on Linkedin, I ask that you come to Ivc, spend $46 per unit and basically suffer through one of my classes. I'll be happy to add you on to Linkedin."}, {'start': '468.543', 'end': '485.860', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Job history. What different types of jobs have you had? And remember, the most important thing about recruiting is not necessarily. It's not just the grades. It's how are you gonna work with others when they're hiring you? If you have a 4.0 and accounting, that's great."}, {'start': '485.860', 'end': '500.809', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But it's really gonna be about. Well, we're gonna basically take Layla and put her out in front of clients. How is Layla gonna be interacting with those clients? That's really one of the most important parts of it is like, basically, is that social aspect."}, {'start': '501.350', 'end': '515.320', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The other thing also, too, is that passing the Cpa. Exam should be your absolute primary focus. As all of you know, there is a new Cpa exam format in January 2024.'}, {'start': '515.460', 'end': '531.730', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: The one thing I want to warn you about Becker. Cpa. Review. It's a great review course, but they were purchased by private equity. Back in 2022, a guy by the name of Peter Olinto left Becker in July 23, and he joined Uworld."}, {'start': '531.910', 'end': '547.329', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you are, because, like most of you are probably going to be working for a firm where they're gonna provide you free. Cpa review. That's great. But the one thing that is right. Now, tripping up a lot of different students are what we call task based simulations."}, {'start': '547.600', 'end': '555.719', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: by the way, just out of a show of hands. How many of you like, what percentage of the Cpa exam are task based simulations?'}, {'start': '557.600', 'end': '558.820', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Any thoughts.'}, {'start': '559.510', 'end': '565.520', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I've got multiple choice task based, which percentage of the Cpa. Exam. Or task based simulations."}, {'start': '571.710', 'end': '572.909', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Any thoughts.'}, {'start': '574.280', 'end': '575.180', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: Like 30.'}, {'start': '575.670', 'end': '577.040', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's 50%."}, {'start': '577.350', 'end': '582.469', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So 50% of the questions are problem based questions.'}, {'start': '582.610', 'end': '607.780', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And one of the things is is that as you're going through and doing, accounting where a lot of students struggle with is that if you took 3 0, 1 a 3 0, 1 B. If it was all multiple choice questions, right? And you didn't go through and really practice those problem based questions that are in the back of Kiso basically the problems and really learned it deeply."}, {'start': '607.930', 'end': '614.329', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: When you get to the exam, it might take you a little bit more time to kind of go through and prepare.'}, {'start': '614.600', 'end': '621.639', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But again, why is the Cpa. Exam passing it so important? Because once you become a license, Cpa.'}, {'start': '622.190', 'end': '626.400', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: the job opportunities are going to be significantly better for you.'}, {'start': '626.910', 'end': '636.899', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: One of the other things I also want to kind of share with you is when it comes to basically sitting for the Cpa exam and becoming license.'}, {'start': '637.080', 'end': '647.520', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right. So this is the tip sheet that I'm going to be sharing with all of you. In terms of looking at, basically for the board of accounting or something for the California Board of Accountancy"}, {'start': '647.880', 'end': '655.720', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: to sit for the Cpa. Exam, right? So what happens when you go to become a Cpa.'}, {'start': '655.820', 'end': '663.280', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Well, the 1st thing I'm gonna go through and do is I'm gonna go to the California Board of Accountancy."}, {'start': '663.870', 'end': '667.000', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Let's see license application."}, {'start': '667.400', 'end': '674.589', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I'm Gonna come over here to the California Board of Accountancy License application. And let's see what happens."}, {'start': '675.070', 'end': '680.089', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I'm gonna come right over here and I'm gonna look at this. I'm gonna go to applicants."}, {'start': '680.370', 'end': '694.000', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And then I'm gonna basically be an exam applicant, because this is what you're gonna be going through and applying for. And when you kind of get over here. So essentially, apply for the exam, I'm ready to create my account."}, {'start': '694.210', 'end': '700.869', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You're gonna come over here and you're going to establish your account to basically become a Cpa."}, {'start': '701.010', 'end': '714.180', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: When you are going through and applying to sit for the Cpa. Exam, you'll hear me. And in a lot of the messages I've already sent to you. I'll basically make an a difference between sitting and becoming. License"}, {'start': '714.250', 'end': '737.610', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: is when you kind of go through and look at this is that to sit for the exam. You need to be within 6 months of graduating or getting your bachelor's degree, and you have to have 24 semester units of accounting completed, and 24 semester units of business subjects completed, that is, to sit for the Cpa. Exam."}, {'start': '737.950', 'end': '763.559', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So again, sitting for the Cpa. Exam. Is different than licensure, right? So to sit for the exam need to have be within 6 months of having my bachelor's degree. I need to have 24 semester units of accounting subjects. 24 semester units of business related subjects. Do I need to be an accounting, major? No. Could I be a film studies, Major. Sure, that's actually sounds a lot more exciting."}, {'start': '763.570', 'end': '781.139', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But if I'm a film studies, Major, and I'm making my application, it has to show 24 semester units of accounting with a 24 semester units of business. If I am enrolled in classes, I'm going to be getting to that amount when I submit my transcript, it'll basically say in process."}, {'start': '781.140', 'end': '798.060', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: there's now a new form that you need to bring to the registrar to basically say that you're gonna essentially have those units, but in terms of sitting for the exam. This is essentially what you need is you need to have the 24 accounting, and then you need to have, like the 24 of business."}, {'start': '798.250', 'end': '807.560', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The other thing I will also share with you is that if you are in school, basically passing, the exam is going to be a lot easier'}, {'start': '807.760', 'end': '823.270', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: when we start working right. What do most employers care about? They want you to be done with the 1 50. Why is that? Because well, some firms care more than others, because you are probably going to be working sometimes 70\xa0HA week, sometimes 80,'}, {'start': '823.270', 'end': '841.529', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: sometimes 60, but they don't want you to be in school while you're working for a firm again. That's usually with the larger firms. Some of the smaller firms are like a little bit different. Passing the Cpa. Exam while you're in school is a lot easier to do than once you've kind of gone through and have graduated."}, {'start': '841.760', 'end': '854.949', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I want to take a brief break. And just because I am talking relatively quickly, it's only 15\xa0min in, and I'm almost done with my presentation. But what questions do you have of me? Of what I just kind of went through, just went over."}, {'start': '857.160', 'end': '857.619', 'text': 'leila slayton: I have to.'}, {'start': '858.520', 'end': '862.340', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Have the chat open. So you have to. We have to talk later.'}, {'start': '862.778', 'end': '871.699', 'text': "leila slayton: So regarding the 1 50, and I know there's like a rule change coming up, saying that you won't have to do the 1 50 anymore. And I know that"}, {'start': '871.730', 'end': '897.649', 'text': "leila slayton: deadline or the timeline when that would be implemented. It's not quite defined yet. So I was wondering between doing, should we be focusing? Obviously to like, sit on it, but say, the same amount of time to maybe recover those units is the same amount of time to do a master's in accounting. Is that something that you would recommend? Or would you say you should focus more on the Cpa itself?"}, {'start': '897.650', 'end': '904.380', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But I feel I paid you just to say this, because my next slide is right over here perfect.'}, {'start': '904.380', 'end': '914.740', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And this is how the requirements are going to be changing right? So when when we look at this over here, right? So, by the way, the 1 50 as of right now'}, {'start': '914.950', 'end': '936.789', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: is still essentially holding right. And I'm gonna share this presentation with all of you. And this is actually from the most recent California board of Accountancy Newsletter, right, this little chart that I basically snapshotted and basically put over here and let me see if I can make it where it's a lot more visual for everybody."}, {'start': '936.990', 'end': '943.490', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But really, what so essentially what happened was is that they ate. So when I so, taking a step back'}, {'start': '943.740', 'end': '954.749', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: when I was an undergraduate a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. I needed to have a bachelor's degree only with a certain amount of accounting and business units."}, {'start': '954.780', 'end': '974.009', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: The once I got past the exam I had to do work, for I had to work for 2 years, so it was a bachelor's degree, or 1 20 plus 2 years of work experience. What's happened is is that nationally, they want to basically increase. Essentially, the way"}, {'start': '974.050', 'end': '979.980', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: of you know, they want to increase the pathway going through to licensure right?'}, {'start': '980.060', 'end': '994.180', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And in terms of licensure when you're going through and looking at this, they're now going to kind of say, or this is again. Everything I'm sharing with you right now is speculative, right? But this is kind of what they put out there."}, {'start': '994.490', 'end': '1001.810', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and so, more than likely, what it's going to be, Layla. Just absolutely your point. It's going to be a bachelor's degree."}, {'start': '1001.960', 'end': '1016.249', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: does it have to be in accounting? I don't know. It might have to be. But the problem is, they're still gonna have it, I think, relatively flexible for California. By the way, we are the most liberal state in terms of"}, {'start': '1016.390', 'end': '1034.629', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: units, because if you went to South Carolina they would not accept any of my 200 series courses that I offer at Irvine Valley. Right? They're very strict about what they accept is lower and upper division units California extremely liberal. I could actually go through."}, {'start': '1034.750', 'end': '1044.350', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and I could go to 10 different community colleges and take accounting one A at 10 different places and meet the accounting subject requirement.'}, {'start': '1044.470', 'end': '1046.720', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's absolutely insane."}, {'start': '1046.810', 'end': '1073.039', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If I did that, the problem would be is that I would be completely unprepared for the Cpa. Exam. Although I might know a little bit far. But you know, when you get to the Cpa. Exam. It's in the 4 different parts. It's extremely extremely broad. Right? So when you're looking at the licensure pathway is that this is going to be changing, which is why my suggestion to you is one"}, {'start': '1073.060', 'end': '1083.589', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you want to. Basically the most important thing out of this is getting a job. Because if you graduate once you've graduated it becomes extremely difficult to find work."}, {'start': '1083.640', 'end': '1086.689', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's a lot easier to find work when you're in school."}, {'start': '1086.920', 'end': '1101.210', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What's? And again, it's also passing the exam. I would be focused on getting the 120 semester units. And I would also be focused on passing the Cpa. Exam as quickly as possible"}, {'start': '1101.710', 'end': '1114.620', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right, and to your question about the Master's degree right? And I know from the legislation that I've seen is that they will allow the Master's degree in accounting to count as one year of the experience."}, {'start': '1114.930', 'end': '1124.450', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: The thing about the Master's degree is that my suggestion to you would be is to get your license your Cpa license first, st"}, {'start': '1124.850', 'end': '1132.260', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because getting into debt for a Master's degree in accounting is."}, {'start': '1132.400', 'end': '1135.340', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I'm not sure if that's something that I would do. And, by the way."}, {'start': '1135.630', 'end': '1144.320', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: once you've taken, as far as financial accounting is concerned. Once you've taken intermediate one and 2, you're kind of at the top of the mountain."}, {'start': '1144.640', 'end': '1149.569', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: getting a Master's degree unless it's like something in tax"}, {'start': '1150.320', 'end': '1167.789', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: to me. That's a tough. That's a tough one. But, by the way, Uci and their impact program, and I think you I think Cal State Fullerton has is to Deloitte underwrites. I think 10 scholarships at both schools. If you wanted to get a master's degree do it for free."}, {'start': '1167.990', 'end': '1181.720', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But my suggestion again would, I would be focused on taking and passing the Cpa. Exam, getting your Cpa license, and then kind of saying, Well, at that point do I go back and get a Master's degree?"}, {'start': '1182.810', 'end': '1194.209', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's what I would kind of say and like, look, you're at one of the only Cal State. Fullerton is one of the only Aacsb accounting accredited schools in the nation."}, {'start': '1194.470', 'end': '1200.290', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's a very, very hard certification to get. They have to go through a lot to get that certification."}, {'start': '1200.530', 'end': '1218.149', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And you know it's it's 1 of those things where I would also say, too, that if you're going to get your Master's degree, I would probably get it from a place other than where you went for undergrad. That's why I would probably look at Uci again. If it's free, it may actually be worth it."}, {'start': '1218.320', 'end': '1220.149', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Does that kind of answer your question, Leila?'}, {'start': '1222.125', 'end': '1231.724', 'text': "leila slayton: Yes, it does, I guess. Just a little more clarification on I know you said to like sit on the exam. Say, you're an accounting, Major."}, {'start': '1232.750', 'end': '1239.209', 'text': 'leila slayton: I guess, like how many more units would you have to take to be able to like? Sit, or.'}, {'start': '1239.350', 'end': '1241.980', 'text': 'leila slayton: I guess, help you with studying for the Cpa.'}, {'start': '1241.980', 'end': '1242.810', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So'}, {'start': '1243.300', 'end': '1252.609', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: that's so if I go through and look at the Cpa exam, right? And I'm just gonna kind of show you I'm just gonna take you through your world real quick."}, {'start': '1265.160', 'end': '1278.039', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So if I go into your world is when it's basically used to be known as Roger Cpa Review, right. But for the Cpa. Exam. What are the parts that I have to go through and take? I have to take auditing?"}, {'start': '1278.360', 'end': '1280.420', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I have to take far.'}, {'start': '1280.530', 'end': '1285.999', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I have to take. Reg. Those are the 3 classes that I have to go through and take'}, {'start': '1286.550', 'end': '1294.559', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: for auditing. I believe the class at Cal State Fullerton is accounting 4 0, 2, right? Any kind of auditing class you take.'}, {'start': '1294.720', 'end': '1300.019', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's what you that's gonna help you get an understanding of those materials for far."}, {'start': '1300.320', 'end': '1305.460', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's really gonna be accounting 3 0, 1 a, and accounting 3 0, 1 b."}, {'start': '1305.760', 'end': '1313.530', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And when you look at the different topics that are on basically that are on far right.'}, {'start': '1313.740', 'end': '1324.939', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And, by the way, whatever you didn't learn at your 4 year university like, there's no way as academics. We can teach you everything you need to know for the Cpa. Exam."}, {'start': '1325.110', 'end': '1335.820', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: like, for example, did you take a class in governmental or not for profits? Probably not right. But this will help you go through and do it same with state and local government concepts.'}, {'start': '1336.190', 'end': '1358.889', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: public company reporting all these different things. But all of this here, like cash and cash equivalents, trade receivables, inventory, PP. And E. Investments and tangibles. This is all 3 0, 1, a. Like payables, debt, equity, 3 0. 1 b. Accounting changes and error. Corrections. 3. 0. 1 B. Contingencies and commitments. 3 0, 1 b. Revenue. Rec. I do it in 3 0, 1 a'}, {'start': '1359.338', 'end': '1382.310', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: fair value. Let's see, accounting and subsequent events. Those are all gonna probably be in 3 0, 1 B. So again, depending upon how crazy your classes were, it basically means when you go to this. If you've spent a lot of time learning the material when you were preparing for your classes, it means it's going to be a lot easier in terms of preparing for the Cpa. Exam."}, {'start': '1382.680', 'end': '1388.799', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But the key is with the Cpa. Exam. And again, I'm not trying to use this as clickbait."}, {'start': '1388.980', 'end': '1403.660', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but I spent about an a little bit more than an hour with a guy by the name of Jeff Elliott and Jeff Elliott ran. I think he's got a blog called like another 71 or another 73"}, {'start': '1404.409', 'end': '1418.779', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: but basically this right here, if you go to my channel and you just type in Ninja. This is about an hour and 6 long conversation about just the Cpa exam and basically his own journey, about another 71,'}, {'start': '1418.880', 'end': '1422.650', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: which I think you can find on Reddit. But this is my interview with Jeff.'}, {'start': '1423.010', 'end': '1429.790', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and he kind of goes through the strategies in terms of going through and taking and preparing for the Cpa. Exam.'}, {'start': '1430.490', 'end': '1446.819', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So again, like the Cpa. Exam, is it a, is it a challenging test? And the answer is, Oh, absolutely yes. Is it possible? Absolutely. Yes, it just depends upon how much time you've been putting into your accounting classes."}, {'start': '1447.470', 'end': '1457.690', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I you know I have my own philosophies in terms of teaching, accounting. I I. The most important thing to me is like watching my students take and pass the exam.'}, {'start': '1457.800', 'end': '1465.519', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and so I've altered my teaching over the years to basically make it. So my students perform better on the Cpa exam."}, {'start': '1466.050', 'end': '1469.449', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but it's because again, it's just one of those things where?"}, {'start': '1470.321', 'end': '1479.979', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, it's a tough test, but it's definitely doable. You just want to. And again, my advice is, get the Cpa license as quickly as possible."}, {'start': '1481.140', 'end': '1487.160', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: That would really be my, my overall suggestion to you? Does that kind of does that make sense, or did I not answer your question?'}, {'start': '1487.700', 'end': '1489.080', 'text': 'leila slayton: No, that helped. Thank you.'}, {'start': '1489.220', 'end': '1491.190', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Sure, Lusa, you had a question.'}, {'start': '1491.790', 'end': '1500.543', 'text': 'Moosa Shahzad Altaf: Yes, I was wondering if you could show the the 24 business 24 accounting that sheet that you had.'}, {'start': '1501.130', 'end': '1504.970', 'text': 'Moosa Shahzad Altaf: There was a 3rd requirement, with the 20 units of.'}, {'start': '1504.970', 'end': '1506.359', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But yeah, we haven't gotten to that."}, {'start': '1506.360', 'end': '1513.109', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, this is great. So to sit for the exam, I just need 24 and 24. Right?'}, {'start': '1513.370', 'end': '1522.679', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What happens is is when you apply to sit for the exam, you're gonna basically send to the Board of Accountancy your electronic transcripts, whatever paperwork they want."}, {'start': '1522.830', 'end': '1529.420', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And then, most importantly, you have to send them the check for like I think it's like a hundred bucks for the application fee."}, {'start': '1529.600', 'end': '1533.399', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you don't send them the money. They won't review your application."}, {'start': '1533.560', 'end': '1541.680', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: so make sure you send the cash. It'll probably take them, and there's like a I think it takes them between 4 to 6 weeks to kind of go through"}, {'start': '1541.790', 'end': '1547.260', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and to review your application. But remember, when they're reviewing your application."}, {'start': '1547.390', 'end': '1563.440', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: all they care about is, are you going to have a bachelor's degree? Any subject within the next 6 months? Right? That's basically the contingency. And then do you have, or will you have 24 accounting and 24 business units completed."}, {'start': '1563.700', 'end': '1566.710', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? That's the only thing they care about. Now."}, {'start': '1567.070', 'end': '1570.160', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: once you pass the Cpa exam.'}, {'start': '1570.500', 'end': '1573.319', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? So basically, once I go through and pass'}, {'start': '1574.328', 'end': '1598.039', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: the Cpa. Exam for licensure. Right? I'm gonna have to then go through at least under the current requirements, right? I would have to do another 20 semester units of accounting study and 10 semester units of ethics studies right now for ethics studies. You can take an audit class, and that'll count down here. But very important."}, {'start': '1598.190', 'end': '1609.449', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you took an auditing class up here you cannot double count it. You could have to have to take another accounting class in order to go through and to push this down right?'}, {'start': '1609.720', 'end': '1618.999', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So this is kind of like when I'm having you go through and list out all of your classes. Layla, do you mind if I use? I think I did your mapping correct."}, {'start': '1619.000', 'end': '1620.229', 'text': 'leila slayton: You did, you can use it.'}, {'start': '1620.230', 'end': '1621.070', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, thank you.'}, {'start': '1621.310', 'end': '1625.399', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So right over here.'}, {'start': '1631.580', 'end': '1639.890', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So basically what I went through. And then for Layla, right? So she went through and basically list out every single class she ever took. Right?'}, {'start': '1640.010', 'end': '1655.819', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So kind of what my job was is, I kind of said, Okay, I'm gonna basically then I basically. Then take what you send to me. I assign it a letter. What does that letter mean of group A is accounting group B is business group C is accounting study"}, {'start': '1655.910', 'end': '1670.790', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: group D is ethics studies right? And then what I kind of go through and then do is say, Okay, Layla, you've taken 21 semester units of accounting. So you need another 3 semester units to meet to meet the educational requirement"}, {'start': '1671.000', 'end': '1678.879', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: over here. Layla has taken a lot of business classes. Right? Because remember, for business, it's stats math management."}, {'start': '1679.050', 'end': '1683.286', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: There's a lot of different items that count as basically"}, {'start': '1683.840', 'end': '1688.350', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: basically as a business course, it is extremely broad, right?'}, {'start': '1688.660', 'end': '1701.899', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And then, as we look over here for the ethics studies because basically what this part here does, it says, well, you need 20 semester units of accounting study right? But only 6 of these have to be in accounting'}, {'start': '1702.140', 'end': '1720.389', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: 14 can be from business. So what you'll see is on Layla sheet right over here. I show she's got 55 business subjects. I take out 14. Put it down here to group C, and then basically, she just needs another 6 more units of accounting"}, {'start': '1720.740', 'end': '1738.639', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: additionally over here. Layla, I believe you have taken auditing right? So you took an auditing class accounting 4 0, 2 always want to say it's accounting 4, 20, but that's probably a different type of accounting class. So if I say over here accounting 4 0 2,"}, {'start': '1739.211', 'end': '1749.469', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: if Layla wants to count like, she could basically have audit count down here. But she would have to basically take another 3 units to replace that one particular course.'}, {'start': '1750.870', 'end': '1765.510', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's really when you look at group they. And then again, like, what are these 2 bottom categories? This is ethics studies like what counts here. I know I've done enough of these that all of you have to take organizational behavior."}, {'start': '1765.710', 'end': '1778.919', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: All of you have to take a legal environment of business class. Right? I teach accounting 2, 20 or accounting ethics at Irvine Valley College. I probably have had. I don't know at least"}, {'start': '1779.350', 'end': '1793.419', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: 20 of my students. I think every semester, I think, are actually from Fullerton. There's a huge Fullerton contingency that takes my ethics course at Ibc. By the way when you take classes at a community college."}, {'start': '1793.550', 'end': '1795.999', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So let me just pause something quick.'}, {'start': '1799.830', 'end': '1802.499', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: How much do we charge per unit? If you want to go to Ivc.'}, {'start': '1802.820', 'end': '1808.180', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Or any. If I wanted to go to Santa Ana. When I go to any community college, what do what do they charge per unit?'}, {'start': '1811.390', 'end': '1813.269', 'text': 'Moosa Shahzad Altaf: Like $40.'}, {'start': '1813.270', 'end': '1820.720', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You're close 46 bucks right? And the price is right game. You would have done pretty well $46 per unit. What is Cal State Fullerton charge?"}, {'start': '1821.080', 'end': '1823.170', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Is it more than 46 a unit?'}, {'start': '1823.880', 'end': '1831.119', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yes, I think one of my classes might be cheaper than a semester of parking at Cal State, Fullerton.'}, {'start': '1831.680', 'end': '1837.850', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So when you look at this right from a perspective of in terms of getting the other units done.'}, {'start': '1838.000', 'end': '1853.710', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you know you can do them anywhere if you want to do them at Fullerton. That's great. You want to do them in a community college. That's great the thing, though, that you want to kind of go through and keep in mind is that if I take by the way, I could take a quickbooks class right? Counting 2 0, 4 at Ibc."}, {'start': '1853.860', 'end': '1860.299', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But is that going to help me with preparing for the Cpa. Exam. And the answer is going to be no'}, {'start': '1860.930', 'end': '1867.149', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right when you're taking classes. You kind of want to kind of keep in mind in terms of like."}, {'start': '1867.630', 'end': '1876.910', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: what am I gonna need to kind of go through and do to help me kind of go through and prepare. I want to try to take classes that will help me prepare for the exam.'}, {'start': '1877.160', 'end': '1894.800', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So, Layla, on your sheet, as well as all these sheets you will go through and see over here video links. There's a video right over here of like, what classes should I go through and take to prepare for the Cpa. Exam. So if you want more information specifically on that, there's a lot of information that's that's over here."}, {'start': '1896.680', 'end': '1904.900', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So, moose. Did that answer your question, or did that help in terms of like 1st sitting, then, and then us? Let me just talk really quickly about licensure.'}, {'start': '1905.360', 'end': '1910.550', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Once you pass the Cpa. Exam right? Then what happens?'}, {'start': '1910.800', 'end': '1917.750', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I have to show that I have a year of work experience, right? That's the general experience requirement"}, {'start': '1918.360', 'end': '1923.670', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: if I'm showing, and that, by the way, that goes to your Cpa license."}, {'start': '1923.820', 'end': '1940.849', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? So, for example, I have an a designation on my Cpa license. Does that mean? I got an A in my accounting classes? No, I didn't get an a in all my accounting classes. What does that mean is that I could sign off on audit and add test reports."}, {'start': '1941.090', 'end': '1956.359', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? It's a very that type of experience will easily take you 2 years to get. The general experience is extremely broad, but when you're applying for licensure, you have to show that you've passed the Cpa. Exam."}, {'start': '1956.390', 'end': '1984.430', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You have to show that you have the work experience. And then the other thing you also have to go through and show is going to be the 1 50. So when you're applying for licensure is when they're going to be going through and basically doing it. So, Layla, if you're taking, if you didn't list out a 3 unit class, you could literally apply to sit for the exam right now. That mean that you'd have the units for licensure under the current standards. No."}, {'start': '1984.540', 'end': '1992.099', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but you know again, that's you can easily take those classes at community colleges just to basically save yourself money."}, {'start': '1992.460', 'end': '2008.209', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you spend $80,000 on a master's degree at Usc, or that's probably actually not even the right price. It's probably even more money. There can be benefits to a master's degree. It allows you to go through and to re recruit."}, {'start': '2008.440', 'end': '2015.039', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But in my opinion, it's very. It's all it's just a lot of debt to get into."}, {'start': '2015.370', 'end': '2026.429', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I would really, you know. And again, I'm also an attorney. Would I advise students to go to law school? It's a great education again. I would work for a few years before going back to school."}, {'start': '2027.360', 'end': '2031.419', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's generally what my advice would be, in my opinion."}, {'start': '2032.320', 'end': '2035.710', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So Lisa did that answer your question, okay, cool.'}, {'start': '2036.110', 'end': '2044.579', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So this is kind of like basically for licensure, right? So to sit for the exam is essentially different than basically licensure'}, {'start': '2044.972', 'end': '2059.939', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and again, for licensure, it's the 1 20 plus another 20 semester units of accounting study only, of which 6 need to be in accounting. And then you need 10 semester units of ethics studies. And that's why a lot of the students will come to Ibc to kind of come through and"}, {'start': '2060.536', 'end': '2064.350', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: basically to get to get that class out of the way.'}, {'start': '2064.690', 'end': '2069.270', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The other thing, too, is that I mentioned this a little bit earlier about South Carolina.'}, {'start': '2069.520', 'end': '2094.020', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Every State has different licensure requirements, however, getting licensed in California again, we're extremely liberal. And again, my opinion on this is is, I think, that the Cpa. Exam is the ultimate gatekeeper. Right? That exam is brutal. It's tough. You gotta pass it you have it a lot easier than I did, because I took all 4 parts in one sitting."}, {'start': '2094.280', 'end': '2102.599', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: so I literally had to take all 4 parts over 3 days in beautiful Carson, California, back in May of 1991'}, {'start': '2103.154', 'end': '2112.060', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: so you guys have it. Oh, I can, you know, sit for one part for 4\xa0h, and I go sit for another part for 4\xa0h. So it's it's a very, very. It's still a hard exam."}, {'start': '2112.410', 'end': '2117.519', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But again, it's 1 of those things that you're kind of battling against yourself."}, {'start': '2117.660', 'end': '2141.420', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay? And we've kind of like, Wow, just for these different conversations have we've had is like, what classes do we go through and take? You know, again? I would just, you know, whenever you're taking whenever you're kind of going through to take a class. You know, do your research. And you know, if you're taking anything in a community college, I would really just recommend taking a pass. No pass."}, {'start': '2141.880', 'end': '2152.400', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: obviously accounting one a. 1 b are different, because those are the ones that transfer to a Cal state. But if you're taking like a 200 series class at Ibc."}, {'start': '2152.690', 'end': '2154.420', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's what you'd want to go through and do."}, {'start': '2155.010', 'end': '2161.119', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, so now this is great. Let's just open this up for questions. I can. I can answer"}, {'start': '2161.330', 'end': '2184.319', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: whatever I can help you guys with you guys want to talk about recruiting. I did do a few pre. I don't know if any of you saw this, but earlier in the year I did these meetings called Pre Meet the Firms, where I basically had different accounting firms come in. And I interviewed them basically from like Rsm, and from some other places. I have recordings of those."}, {'start': '2184.951', 'end': '2189.740', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Whatever else I can help you with. Please let me know, Musa. You had a question.'}, {'start': '2191.184', 'end': '2195.730', 'text': 'Moosa Shahzad Altaf: In terms of the exam I was planning on, maybe'}, {'start': '2195.950', 'end': '2206.910', 'text': 'Moosa Shahzad Altaf: taking the harder ones first, st so that I just have them out of the way. So which exams would, you say, are considered to be the harder exams compared to the other ones?'}, {'start': '2206.910', 'end': '2214.630', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's it's all gonna depend upon right like. So it depends on how you were tortured academically"}, {'start': '2214.750', 'end': '2223.339', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: in your accounting classes. Right? If you took me like my accounting one. A students are not very happy with me right now, because I make their life'}, {'start': '2223.460', 'end': '2226.860', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: a living. You know what it's I make that class brutal."}, {'start': '2227.110', 'end': '2232.030', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? Just to kind of give you a little bit of a preview for my accounting one a final.'}, {'start': '2237.250', 'end': '2248.600', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I basically, I have them go through, and they have to kind of go through and prepare statement of cash flows based on this.'}, {'start': '2248.720', 'end': '2255.650', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And I'm throwing in like equipment sales and everything else into this. This is my lower division financial accounting class."}, {'start': '2255.900', 'end': '2280.660', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What's crazy is when I got to Chapter 4 or 5 and Kiso, when I was teaching intermediate. It's like, Oh, my one, a exam is harder than what is being, you know, shown like what? What my one? A exam. Is more challenging than what's on those upper division things. So I think that when you go into the Cpa exam. And again, when I've spoken with my students."}, {'start': '2280.980', 'end': '2285.159', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: the difficulty that you're gonna have with this test"}, {'start': '2285.380', 'end': '2293.399', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: is directly related to how challenging were your classes when you were taking these classes and an undergraduate level.'}, {'start': '2293.650', 'end': '2306.530', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you didn't go through and do dollar value, Lifo, if you didn't go through and do some of these more challenging topics, it just means that when you go to the Cpa Review. It's going to take longer."}, {'start': '2306.680', 'end': '2312.050', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you only took exams with multiple choice questions.'}, {'start': '2312.270', 'end': '2317.539', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: When you get to the task based simulations, it means it's going to be more difficult"}, {'start': '2317.710', 'end': '2337.830', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: again. I would really encourage you to go through and to watch that interview I did with Jeff Elliott, because his philosophy of handwriting out all these different notes, I think, is actually a really winning thing. It's like with my students. I don't use connect. I don't use Wiley plus unless I have to."}, {'start': '2338.337', 'end': '2346.060', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I have my students handwrite out the solutions to the homework questions multiple times, and they generally find success with that.'}, {'start': '2346.390', 'end': '2349.750', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But in terms of the difficulty of the exam parts'}, {'start': '2350.410', 'end': '2354.290', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: far rag that I would say auditing.'}, {'start': '2354.930', 'end': '2362.940', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and the last one, which is really tough to give you advice on, because I would actually want you to watch the Jeff Elliott interview'}, {'start': '2363.170', 'end': '2370.239', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: once you choose Tcp. Isc or Bar you make. That's your permanent choice."}, {'start': '2370.720', 'end': '2379.210', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What Jeff was suggesting was, he's saying, Oh, and and if you look at the pass rates, I think Tcp is the highest."}, {'start': '2379.450', 'end': '2390.740', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: but that actually can be somewhat deceptive, because the people I know that are passing, that really well are those that have been working in taxation for like 4 to 5, like a couple of years.'}, {'start': '2390.930', 'end': '2398.410', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? It's easier for them to pass if you take bar. And again, I would refer to you to that interview that I did with Jeff."}, {'start': '2398.890', 'end': '2402.059', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Is that coming over here? It's like, well."}, {'start': '2402.997', 'end': '2411.369', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: financial statement analyses goodwill internally developed software revenue recognition stock comp.'}, {'start': '2411.630', 'end': '2416.830', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: R&D business combination. So it's a lot of the material that was in"}, {'start': '2418.024', 'end': '2424.090', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: the old far that, and also, I think, in Bec that they threw into bar.'}, {'start': '2424.540', 'end': '2434.450', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So you'll hear different people say different things, but you have to be really careful, because once you make that decision, that's your permanent decision."}, {'start': '2435.510', 'end': '2440.819', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And, by the way, is passing the exam. And again, I'll make this point again."}, {'start': '2440.960', 'end': '2444.440', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Want to try to pass the exam while you're in school."}, {'start': '2444.860', 'end': '2449.509', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and also to just from a I'm also just gonna mention this."}, {'start': '2449.940', 'end': '2457.800', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: you want to become a Cpa. Why is that so important is because when you are being hired by employers.'}, {'start': '2458.050', 'end': '2463.539', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: do I hire a Cpa with 3 years of experience or a non cpa with 8.'}, {'start': '2463.820', 'end': '2468.959', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I'm probably gonna hire the Cpa with 3 years. Why is that? Because"}, {'start': '2469.960', 'end': '2485.120', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: they may do a bad job right? But if they do something crazy, not only are they gonna get fired. They're gonna lose their license and trust me, that is a license. You will never want to lose once you have it. It's it's the"}, {'start': '2485.210', 'end': '2504.200', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: it's I mean, I can I can, you know. I wanna say, I don't really care about my bar license like, if they want to take. They want to like, basically, you know, take away my bar license. That's okay. But I would give a fight about my Cpa. License. That to me is is something that is, you know, you'll treasure for the rest of your life, and it just again"}, {'start': '2504.310', 'end': '2510.780', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: from an employment perspective of you know, Layla, you were asking earlier about a Master's degree."}, {'start': '2510.890', 'end': '2517.190', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What's more impressive, a Master's degree or a Cpa license without question. It's a Cpa license."}, {'start': '2517.780', 'end': '2521.449', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: There's just nothing, and it's like you can even say the thing about the Mba."}, {'start': '2522.000', 'end': '2531.859', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What's more valuable, an Mba or a Cpa license. Well, if it's an Mba. From an in person studying at Harvard, it may be incredibly valuable."}, {'start': '2532.440', 'end': '2542.460', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but absent. Something like that. Cpa license is going to be more valuable. I've been because of what's been going on with the economy. And I kind of scroll through with you"}, {'start': '2543.155', 'end': '2550.450', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: the different mappings. It is an incredibly difficult environment. Right now, I'm hoping it's gonna get better soon"}, {'start': '2550.847', 'end': '2564.810', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you're also kind of seeing trends and accounting firms whereby a lot of people are staying like a lot longer. But that's just because private industry is slowed down and not hiring as many people out of the larger firms right now. But it does still happen"}, {'start': '2565.490', 'end': '2567.709', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: so. Anyways, Tatiana, you had a question.'}, {'start': '2568.720', 'end': '2576.729', 'text': "Tatianna Moore: Yeah, so specifically for group C. And DI see that like, you can't go"}, {'start': '2576.960', 'end': '2584.080', 'text': "Tatianna Moore: over like 14 units of like business related. It's it's like more intricate than Group A, and."}, {'start': '2584.080', 'end': '2596.189', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: No, no. So so basically, what this is is like, the way I do it, right is that you can go like, no, it's it's basically easy. 20 units. Right? So Layla here has taken like 17 extra business units. Right?"}, {'start': '2597.170', 'end': '2607.089', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's okay. Right? You can go over and take more units. It doesn't really matter right. It's just really a matter in terms of where everything falls into categories."}, {'start': '2607.260', 'end': '2610.830', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? What's great about Fullerton is because you take, like"}, {'start': '2611.120', 'end': '2639.369', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: all of you have to take. I think it's organizational behavior operations management. If you take a leadership class, if you take business, if you take a government class. If you take a legal business law or legal environment of business, you know, usually like those classes like for Cal State, Fullerton students, the ethics studies is a lot easier to do at Uci. It's a lot more difficult because, for whatever reason at Uci."}, {'start': '2639.500', 'end': '2646.199', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: the busy con majors don't, or the economic or busy Con or Econ. Majors don't end up taking these types of courses."}, {'start': '2646.440', 'end': '2653.409', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So you know, if you're going through. And you know, going the traditional pathway which I think is"}, {'start': '2654.190', 'end': '2659.609', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: basically down over here in terms of like, okay, if I have to be a'}, {'start': '2659.770', 'end': '2665.480', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: if, I'm going to be over here to get my concentration and accounting right?"}, {'start': '2666.078', 'end': '2687.099', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Looking at these different parts like managing operations management of organizations. And then obviously, like the the other one is the legal environment of business. You're gonna fulfill up most of those ethics studies requirements. So you can go over. It's not a big deal. It. It's just really a matter of, and I've actually had one student who, I think, took like"}, {'start': '2687.620', 'end': '2689.689', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: 70 units of accounting.'}, {'start': '2690.310', 'end': '2693.049', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I don't know why, but they took that many classes."}, {'start': '2693.540', 'end': '2701.319', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: you know I I enjoy trying to take film studies classes, but if I had to do extra ones but Tatiana, did that answer your question?'}, {'start': '2702.090', 'end': '2706.702', 'text': "Tatianna Moore: Yeah, I guess it's in terms of mine, specifically like, I'm I'm trying to read"}, {'start': '2707.010', 'end': '2708.900', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Can I pull? Can I pull up your thing.'}, {'start': '2709.070', 'end': '2709.989', 'text': "Tatianna Moore: Yeah, that's fine."}, {'start': '2718.650', 'end': '2725.420', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So when I go through and basically went over here to go through and sort through your units, right?'}, {'start': '2725.690', 'end': '2731.550', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So basically, where you are right now is, you need about 7 more semester units of accounting.'}, {'start': '2731.840', 'end': '2743.349', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You have plenty of business units, right? Because you took 44 business related units like you took math you took these different types of business analytics.'}, {'start': '2743.530', 'end': '2752.560', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And so you took a total of 44. You only need 24 to meet Group B, so that excess amount I put down over here into Group C,'}, {'start': '2753.020', 'end': '2767.580', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? So when I look at the Board of Accountancy, you know, basically, I only need 24. So 14 of these, because it's a maximum of 14 semester units. So 14 of these can kind of fall down to this area over here."}, {'start': '2767.880', 'end': '2774.620', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And then for this last part, you've got basically, you took intro to business law and American government"}, {'start': '2775.112', 'end': '2781.280', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and so essentially, then, for this part, you'd need another 4 semester units of accounting ethics or audit."}, {'start': '2781.850', 'end': '2786.340', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's how this would work. Now in terms of total units."}, {'start': '2786.540', 'end': '2795.529', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you're at 1 40. Once you complete the 7 accounting another 6 basically, for like, you're gonna basically be at more than 1 50."}, {'start': '2795.870', 'end': '2796.570', 'text': 'Tatianna Moore: Okay.'}, {'start': '2797.510', 'end': '2805.160', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Again like going through. And you've taken some pretty interesting classes. And I would say this, I mean, like, if you took classes in chemistry."}, {'start': '2805.350', 'end': '2814.690', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: which are always, you know, always fun. But it's like, if you end up working like it's a Edwards life sciences, or you have like that in your background."}, {'start': '2814.970', 'end': '2825.349', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Or if you were a chemistry major, you were switching over majors in accounting. That's gonna enable you to have more engaging conversations potentially with your clients."}, {'start': '2825.350', 'end': '2830.610', 'text': "Tatianna Moore: Yeah, I used to be an environmental science major. So that's why I have like different things."}, {'start': '2830.770', 'end': '2831.340', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah.'}, {'start': '2831.850', 'end': '2849.480', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: so yeah, I know it's always gonna be like, look everything. All these different classes you take. It's not. I would never look at something as like a wasted class, I would just say, No, it's gonna make me more well rounded. And it's gonna give me more interesting things to kind of talk about, you know, when I'm going through and doing the interviewing process."}, {'start': '2850.030', 'end': '2852.750', 'text': 'Tatianna Moore: Cool, alright. Thank you very much.'}, {'start': '2853.090', 'end': '2854.110', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Answer, your question.'}, {'start': '2854.110', 'end': '2855.140', 'text': 'Tatianna Moore: Yes, thank you.'}, {'start': '2855.270', 'end': '2863.440', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Sure who else had? Whatever you guys want to ask about, more than happy to chat with you.'}, {'start': '2866.503', 'end': '2869.960', 'text': 'Moosa Shahzad Altaf: Another quick question about the Ivc classes.'}, {'start': '2871.379', 'end': '2875.850', 'text': "Moosa Shahzad Altaf: So do you know, if they're offered over the sum summer and winter, sessions."}, {'start': '2875.850', 'end': '2878.199', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Sure we we have 3 sessions.'}, {'start': '2879.240', 'end': '2892.479', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And again, this is, I'm not like using this as a promotion to tell you like, oh, so you have to take your classes at Ivc because you watch this video. No, it's it's essentially if I come over here to summer."}, {'start': '2892.894', 'end': '2910.289', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And I come over here to accounting right? So we offer financial and managerial which I know all of you have taken. We've got a data analytics, fundamentals. If you see any of these courses here with acct. They will go through and will count towards the California Board of Accountancy Requirements."}, {'start': '2910.400', 'end': '2915.760', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: We're offering quick books. We have a we clearly have a section that's pretty wide open"}, {'start': '2916.201', 'end': '2944.690', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: payroll class individual income tax business taxation. The one thing I'll mention is this gentleman right here, Steven Grinberg, if you don't know who he is. He worked for about 35 years with the Irs. I watched. I took about 9 tax forces in my career. I wish I would have taken them all with him because he use. He literally uses the tax forms to teach income tax, which is actually genius. He doesn't use a textbook"}, {'start': '2945.487', 'end': '2967.980', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: tax policies and procedures the classes I'm taking teaching over here. This is basically accounting ethics. I do have an open section and over here. But what you will notice is that these classes have a prerequisite right? So accounting one B, which is the equivalent of your accounting? 2 0, 1 B. So in your Google sheet, what I've done is"}, {'start': '2968.510', 'end': '2978.619', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you'll basically, if I kind of scroll over here this way, if I go to my video links, you'll see something here called how to clear prerequisites at Irvine Valley College."}, {'start': '2978.780', 'end': '2990.829', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? And in this video you'll basically find links below about how to submit your transcript to go through, and then to basically go through and then enroll in the classes."}, {'start': '2991.370', 'end': '2999.749', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? We also offer auditing, accounting 275 B. Which is being taught by Deanna Bowden.'}, {'start': '3000.540', 'end': '3006.590', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Deanna actually also teaches the same class at Cal State, Fullerton.'}, {'start': '3007.481', 'end': '3030.320', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but again, this class will not transfer to Cal. State Fullerton. So when you're taking classes at Ivc, like, if you went to the registrar and said, Oh, I took 275 B. So that should count as accounting 402 at Fullerton, they're going to say, well, it must be April 20th today, because you've been smoking some of the hippie lettuce, and you're absolutely insane."}, {'start': '3030.560', 'end': '3032.990', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: They they will not let you take'}, {'start': '3033.150', 'end': '3039.959', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: a 200 series class and let it go through and replace a a class of bulletin.'}, {'start': '3040.630', 'end': '3043.359', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The only transfer classes you can take'}, {'start': '3043.510', 'end': '3047.689', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: or accounting one A and accounting one B, or accounting one B owners.'}, {'start': '3051.390', 'end': '3052.749', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Does that answer your question?'}, {'start': '3053.640', 'end': '3068.419', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, also, too. You can also go to Saddleback. Go. I mean, there's Saddleback. There's Occ, there's Santa Ana. The thing I would really want you to, though to kind of think about, though, is when it comes to the tax forces"}, {'start': '3068.630', 'end': '3084.219', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: these are taught with live zoom right. These are on live zoom, and for tax and intermediate accounting. In my own personal opinion, that is an incredibly important way in terms of how these classes have to go through and be taught.'}, {'start': '3084.710', 'end': '3091.490', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I would just tell you that if you're gonna take something that's online and asynchronous like, look my ethics class."}, {'start': '3091.760', 'end': '3099.099', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I have a lot of information that's in there. I have a lot of video recordings of a lot of stuff for you to kind of go through and use."}, {'start': '3099.530', 'end': '3104.939', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But again, it's really it depends on like what you're looking to get out of a particular class."}, {'start': '3105.270', 'end': '3108.430', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? So it's it's really about like"}, {'start': '3108.550', 'end': '3114.439', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: if I'm taking Reg. Would. I want to take these classes here with Grinberg? Absolutely."}, {'start': '3115.220', 'end': '3122.209', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because I know that you're accounting. What is it? 3 0. 8 is a combination of both business and and individual tax."}, {'start': '3122.570', 'end': '3126.219', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: This would give you a much more, broader, deeper dive'}, {'start': '3126.850', 'end': '3130.760', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: is Barry Gershinovitz still teaching 3 0. 8 at Fullerton.'}, {'start': '3131.940', 'end': '3135.080', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Who's your tax teacher? Who's your tax teacher at Cal State? Fullerton?"}, {'start': '3138.110', 'end': '3139.090', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Does everybody know.'}, {'start': '3140.700', 'end': '3151.389', 'text': "Soham Santosh: For my tax class. It's Professor Jonathan Durant, but I know Professor does teach one or 2 sections of 3 0. 8. But then he also teaches, like advanced tax."}, {'start': '3151.390', 'end': '3156.180', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm pretty sure that name sounds very familiar. It sounds like he's a former tax partner."}, {'start': '3156.690', 'end': '3161.789', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? And like. And I think, for your auditing classes. Has anybody ever taken Greg Nijos.'}, {'start': '3162.780', 'end': '3164.650', 'text': "Soham Santosh: Yeah, he's my auditing professor right now."}, {'start': '3164.650', 'end': '3172.240', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: When you, when you see Greg, tell him that that Bennett says Hello! I was actually an associate when he was a manager at Cooper's."}, {'start': '3172.840', 'end': '3174.410', 'text': "Soham Santosh: Oh, cool. Okay, I'll I'll let him know."}, {'start': '3176.510', 'end': '3179.379', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Small world. Jolie, how can I help you?'}, {'start': '3179.820', 'end': '3181.489', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Am I pronouncing your 1st name correct? Is it jolie?'}, {'start': '3181.490', 'end': '3182.630', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: Yeah, yeah, yeah.'}, {'start': '3182.630', 'end': '3185.190', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Way I think you're. I think you're lying to me to make me feel better."}, {'start': '3185.190', 'end': '3194.719', 'text': "Jouly Youssef: No, no, it cause it's both Julie and Jolie. Like, I, you're good. Yeah. So yeah. So thank you for this session. By the way like, it's very, very informative."}, {'start': '3195.033', 'end': '3195.660', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No worries.'}, {'start': '3196.200', 'end': '3212.724', 'text': "Jouly Youssef: Yeah. And I just wanted to ask. So right now, I am a 3rd year. But I'm planning to to study for another 2 years. Just because I want to slow it down and actually understand, like the things I'm learning. Also."}, {'start': '3213.330', 'end': '3222.939', 'text': "Jouly Youssef: I think I'm good with like units to be able to sit for the exam. But it's it's just. I'm confused, because do I only have to sit"}, {'start': '3223.300', 'end': '3229.850', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: like before by before graduation, by 6 months, or like since I am spending another 2 years, I can.'}, {'start': '3229.990', 'end': '3230.950', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, you know.'}, {'start': '3230.950', 'end': '3234.200', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So so the 1st 1st question I have for you is, do you have a job lined up.'}, {'start': '3236.140', 'end': '3236.600', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: No.'}, {'start': '3237.060', 'end': '3240.160', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No, that has to be your one and main.'}, {'start': '3240.160', 'end': '3240.600', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: Okay.'}, {'start': '3240.600', 'end': '3242.100', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Priority okay.'}, {'start': '3242.100', 'end': '3242.830', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: Got it.'}, {'start': '3243.010', 'end': '3251.179', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I want you to make that your number one priority. Now, if you do, and I'm just gonna kind of share some, just give me a second here."}, {'start': '3270.790', 'end': '3273.550', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Gotta love that dual factor, authentication.'}, {'start': '3286.600', 'end': '3292.830', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So when it comes to. And again, if you do take a class at Ivc.'}, {'start': '3293.050', 'end': '3301.320', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I have basically a group called Ibc 30 to Cpa, and it's it's essentially it's a canvas group."}, {'start': '3301.690', 'end': '3307.130', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But what I've tried to do basically in this group"}, {'start': '3307.380', 'end': '3311.510', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: is, I basically have things like sample resumes'}, {'start': '3311.820', 'end': '3320.979', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and you know, things like, you know, what should your resume format be like? This is incredibly critical.'}, {'start': '3321.120', 'end': '3346.309', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because you have when you're going to meet with a recruiter, they need to know just to kind of imagine at a recruiter like an Nfl owner or an Nfl general manager. We have these different needs. For, you know, like this particular year. And so they're trying to figure out, okay, when are you going to go through and be graduating basically from Cal State Fullerton."}, {'start': '3346.520', 'end': '3352.119', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And are you going to be eligible to kind of go through and and basically sit for the exam'}, {'start': '3352.765', 'end': '3361.619', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: or basically have the units to basically be licensed. By the way, the recruiters are also trying to figure this out, too. I had about a 20\xa0min phone call with'}, {'start': '3362.080', 'end': '3370.260', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: the guy who runs recruiting for Deloitte, kind of explaining to him like what's happening, and with the whole like 1 50 going down to 1 20."}, {'start': '3370.440', 'end': '3388.109', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And so again, like a lot of people are trying to figure this out. But that's something that's very important about going through and doing this. And Julie, what type of part time jobs have you had previously prior to you know, what kind of jobs have you had so far in your career like like."}, {'start': '3389.000', 'end': '3390.629', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: What type of stuff have you done?'}, {'start': '3391.882', 'end': '3396.950', 'text': "Jouly Youssef: Like jobs. I I mean, I've worked at Taco Bell for like 3 years."}, {'start': '3396.950', 'end': '3399.830', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Oh, okay, okay, then we'll stop right there, right."}, {'start': '3400.074', 'end': '3404.710', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Julie. Were you ever yelled at by customers to customers? Come and say, Oh, like this board is terrible.'}, {'start': '3404.850', 'end': '3407.629', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: 100%, 100%.'}, {'start': '3407.630', 'end': '3421.730', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You know how to de escalate conflicts? Right? And so when you're applying for for firms, you want to put those kind of things on there, because then they're gonna know that you have that client or that customer service mentality"}, {'start': '3422.040', 'end': '3422.750', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: right?'}, {'start': '3422.750', 'end': '3423.700', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: Got it. Got it.'}, {'start': '3423.700', 'end': '3429.489', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's really, really important to go through and put. I have, like students will say, Oh, no, I'm not going to put that on there. Oh, no."}, {'start': '3429.670', 'end': '3430.200', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: you ask.'}, {'start': '3430.590', 'end': '3456.450', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Wanna put that on there now, I'm not telling you to. If you really want to deal with crazy customers, you could probably become a flight attendant on spirit airlines. But I'm not sure if anybody wants to fly to spirit right hopefully. Gonna be out of Chapter 11 soon. But no one wants to go through and do that. But the other thing I was I mentioned earlier, like, so at Cal State, Fuller and I basically I'm pretty sure I sent out invitations to these."}, {'start': '3456.490', 'end': '3482.650', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: but what I have is, I have about 35\xa0h of recordings, with not the final 4 accounting firms, but with area accounting firms with Rsm. Frazier, Hcbt. Cbiz. Their different email links, Bdo. Baker, Tilly Grant, Thornton, anderson, Conrad. You know, wines and I also have meetings from prior semesters.'}, {'start': '3482.780', 'end': '3491.119', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I have literally had students who are attending. One student I know, attended Uci. He watched every Bdo interview.'}, {'start': '3491.250', 'end': '3502.470', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and he then basically went out and used this to get himself a job. You have to be extremely proactive when it comes to recruiting.'}, {'start': '3502.680', 'end': '3510.800', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: One of the things, too, is how many of you have been to meet the firms at Cal State, Fullerton, how many of you have been there? Okay, so'}, {'start': '3511.010', 'end': '3521.689', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: one of the things I didn't make it this spring, because I was with my my younger son. We were at a we were at an event, but what I always try to go through and do is that this is from fall."}, {'start': '3526.820', 'end': '3528.310', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: See if it plays.'}, {'start': '3531.400', 'end': '3540.279', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: We got Chloe, and we're like, Oh, my goodness, this is like the biggest I think we have ever ever seen."}, {'start': '3541.695', 'end': '3550.480', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Think it's more than 600 million?"}, {'start': '3550.860', 'end': '3553.930', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Wow, we have a we don't worry. Business."}, {'start': '3554.360', 'end': '3558.949', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, if you're not going in there fully prepared."}, {'start': '3559.090', 'end': '3569.120', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's gonna be an absolute disaster, right? These meet the firms of if if you've been to these before, it's usually like these are an absolute madhouse"}, {'start': '3569.260', 'end': '3587.070', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Cal State Fullerton, just by the sheer number of students that Cal State Fullerton has. I have heard from every single recruiter that these are by far like basically the basically the absolute best recruiting events just because of the sheer number of students that are coming in.'}, {'start': '3587.300', 'end': '3608.930', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right. Chapman, a fraction of the size Usc. A fraction of the size. So, but when you go into these meetings you have to have a game plan. You have to know who's going to be there. You have to basically have a plan in terms of going through and finding and connecting. And, by the way."}, {'start': '3609.110', 'end': '3622.460', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: if I attend meet the firms, will I walk out of there with a job? The answer is, no, you have to be going to speaker events. By the way, so I'm you guys have any more speaker events. This semester at at Fullerton."}, {'start': '3622.670', 'end': '3625.170', 'text': "Soham Santosh: No, we're actually done as of last week."}, {'start': '3625.170', 'end': '3628.029', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right. But how many? How many did you guys have during the semester.'}, {'start': '3628.423', 'end': '3631.180', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: I would say around 40, 45.'}, {'start': '3631.180', 'end': '3634.169', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Wow. 45, speaker, events.'}, {'start': '3634.170', 'end': '3634.770', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yes, yes.'}, {'start': '3634.770', 'end': '3641.570', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Dude, that dude that's insane. That's like right there. By the way, thank you for doing that for the students. That's amazing."}, {'start': '3642.115', 'end': '3654.369', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: That right there is. These are the types of events that you want to be going to, because you want to kind of go and not just go and watch the speaker, but you want to try to go up after and start having, like a meaningful conversation.'}, {'start': '3654.590', 'end': '3667.669', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? You want to be looking up on Linkedin. You want to be talking to friends and family that might be in accounting. You want to basically be really kind of going through and just really get out there in terms of recruiting.'}, {'start': '3667.930', 'end': '3679.610', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Now, Julie, I know you asked me the question earlier, which is not? I'm not answering your question right? But hopefully. The recruiting side tells you everything. But the way it works is that just by."}, {'start': '3679.800', 'end': '3691.829', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: if I go through and in terms of right over here. So, Julie, what if you're going to be within? So when do you plan on having your bachelor's degree by."}, {'start': '3692.940', 'end': '3696.505', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: Yeah. Spring of 2027.'}, {'start': '3697.100', 'end': '3702.899', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So you would apply to sit for the exam in December of 2027.'}, {'start': '3704.510', 'end': '3706.029', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's what you would be doing."}, {'start': '3706.460', 'end': '3715.089', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So you would apply to sit in basically just or sorry. If you're graduating in spring of 27, you would you could apply in December of 2026."}, {'start': '3717.350', 'end': '3718.800', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's what you would be doing."}, {'start': '3719.720', 'end': '3726.180', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: Okay, that makes sense. And then thank you for the insight on like, trying to find like an internship or a job. First, st like.'}, {'start': '3726.653', 'end': '3736.999', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You have. You also have to understand, too, is like not about the recruiting game as a long one. It does not happen overnight, right.'}, {'start': '3737.000', 'end': '3737.470', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: Right.'}, {'start': '3737.470', 'end': '3765.729', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It happens with you have to go through. You've got to go through like, you know, and I've I love going to meet the firms just because I get to connect with like a lot of my former students. I have a lot of my former students that are now working at like different firms. There's some pretty funny stories of some of the things I've kind of done at. Meet the firms for my students. But I love going there. I also love trying to help out. And it's it's always like when I see, like my whole thing is, I mean, I love to teach accounting."}, {'start': '3765.860', 'end': '3772.009', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and it's really fun. But helping students get jobs is much more important to me."}, {'start': '3772.220', 'end': '3777.799', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because I know how daunting it is to go through this recruiting process. It's brutal."}, {'start': '3778.020', 'end': '3783.560', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but it's you have to really be vigilant about it. And remember that it's not"}, {'start': '3783.720', 'end': '3795.369', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: like when it comes to recruiting. It's not just the grades. It's who you are as a person. So jolie. The fact that you've worked at Taco Bell is amazing. And you gotta leverage that fully"}, {'start': '3795.550', 'end': '3796.220', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: okay.'}, {'start': '3796.580', 'end': '3799.360', 'text': 'Jouly Youssef: Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you.'}, {'start': '3799.360', 'end': '3800.220', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No worries.'}, {'start': '3800.560', 'end': '3803.830', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, Layla, you had a question. I think you were the 1st one to have the hand up.'}, {'start': '3804.592', 'end': '3818.359', 'text': "leila slayton: Yes, so kind of going off of what she said about like if you're graduating with a bachelor, so I'm will be graduating spring of 26. When would you say I should apply to sit like that summer, or that fall."}, {'start': '3818.360', 'end': '3819.959', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Do you have a job lined up.'}, {'start': '3820.230', 'end': '3827.899', 'text': 'leila slayton: I have 2 internships. I have one this summer, and then one in summer of 26, right after I graduate.'}, {'start': '3827.900', 'end': '3828.640', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Congratulations!'}, {'start': '3829.380', 'end': '3830.060', 'text': 'leila slayton: Thank you.'}, {'start': '3830.060', 'end': '3839.420', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I would apply, and if you're graduating Spring 26, I would apply in December 25. Now, once you accept your full time offer at your firm."}, {'start': '3839.700', 'end': '3844.929', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: They are more than likely going to give you access to Cpa. Review right?'}, {'start': '3845.110', 'end': '3852.089', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you were to go and buy this like on your own. I can probably get you a price of about 2 grand for you. World.'}, {'start': '3852.682', 'end': '3879.430', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's what I was able to get a little bit earlier. The price kind of goes up and down. But for the platinum course they usually that's how much they'll discount it by. That's what they were doing at the last week the firms but you know, once you accept your offer at that firm, they're then gonna basically go through, and then they'll provide their more. Most of them will provide Becker to you. The one thing I would tell you. And again I would refer you to watch that interview I did with Ninja."}, {'start': '3879.710', 'end': '3887.500', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Just because we talk a lot about one of the challenges of Becker is because I don't really based on what I've heard from students."}, {'start': '3887.670', 'end': '3892.079', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's not adequately preparing them for the task based simulations."}, {'start': '3892.570', 'end': '3899.190', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And that's my opinion, based on. And I'm not saying that that's actually what it is. But you need to go through and check it out."}, {'start': '3899.470', 'end': '3904.959', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And you world will allow you to basically do a free trial or a free preview.'}, {'start': '3905.530', 'end': '3909.899', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's what I would go through and do. But again I would apply to sit as early as possible"}, {'start': '3910.110', 'end': '3915.309', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and like, look while you're in school. It's going to be the best time to kind of go through and study football."}, {'start': '3916.680', 'end': '3924.439', 'text': "leila slayton: Okay. And then I know that some firms like you know, they'll ask on like your resume and eligibility, because they asked me like every single time I was talking to them like oh, I wonder."}, {'start': '3924.440', 'end': '3938.249', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Well, the reason why they're asking you that right again. It kind of goes to the draft board, and if my client is Tilly's in Orange County, right? That's my client. I think they're a publicly traded company. They are in Orange County."}, {'start': '3938.390', 'end': '3940.790', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If my client is Tilly's"}, {'start': '3941.000', 'end': '3946.999', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: until these needs to have an audit staff on it, and they want you to kind of go there.'}, {'start': '3947.160', 'end': '3950.850', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Then I need to make sure that you have the 1 50 done'}, {'start': '3951.090', 'end': '3954.720', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: by whatever like that particular date is right.'}, {'start': '3954.830', 'end': '3965.310', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's more. That is why they are asking that question, and all the firms will be asking this, because in their mind. They have to know. Okay, when are you going to be available to come and work for us?"}, {'start': '3966.770', 'end': '3975.100', 'text': "leila slayton: Okay. So say, you know, if you're sitting on it. And you say you have, maybe like 1 30 units right? You're graduating. You're applying to sit."}, {'start': '3976.970', 'end': '3979.980', 'text': 'leila slayton: Would you? I guess.'}, {'start': '3981.290', 'end': '3982.189', 'text': 'leila slayton: Kind of.'}, {'start': '3982.190', 'end': '3989.820', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Well, basically like you're not. You're not really lying to them. Because, like, now, the way this is gonna work is, it's gonna shove down to 1, 20, right."}, {'start': '3989.820', 'end': '3990.330', 'text': 'leila slayton: Hmm.'}, {'start': '3990.330', 'end': '3998.830', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I think that you can kind of say that. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah. I mean, I'm gonna have all the you know. I'm graduating spring 26, and I'll have my units done"}, {'start': '3999.130', 'end': '4007.130', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: right now, if you needed to get to 1 50 really quickly, because you register at a bunch of different community colleges and take classes. Sure.'}, {'start': '4008.410', 'end': '4011.350', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: if you need to take more units, you can always take them out of community college.'}, {'start': '4012.860', 'end': '4013.300', 'text': 'leila slayton: Okay.'}, {'start': '4015.050', 'end': '4017.649', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Go to Ivc. Wherever you want to go.'}, {'start': '4018.610', 'end': '4024.370', 'text': 'leila slayton: Okay. So I know that some say like, Oh, like 1 50 before we want to like, put you on the higher date.'}, {'start': '4025.640', 'end': '4029.730', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But that's again the it that the whole thing is changing right? And it depends."}, {'start': '4029.730', 'end': '4030.100', 'text': 'leila slayton: Got it.'}, {'start': '4030.100', 'end': '4042.900', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If it's a big 4 firm, they're gonna definitely want you to have the 1 50. The reason why they want you to have the 1 50 is, they do not want you to be taking classes when you're working for them. Full time."}, {'start': '4043.610', 'end': '4044.480', 'text': 'leila slayton: Got it. Okay.'}, {'start': '4044.480', 'end': '4046.579', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: When you're working for a big 4 firm"}, {'start': '4048.570', 'end': '4055.409', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: that sounds like an evil laugh. It kind of is you're gonna be working a lot of hours right? Therefore, by the way, when you're interviewing."}, {'start': '4055.530', 'end': '4060.644', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: why do you want to go through and work for Joey? I'm glad I'm making you laugh on that one."}, {'start': '4061.240', 'end': '4069.130', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: basically, when you're gonna go and work for one of these firms, you know, the biggest thing is you'll always hear them say, this is like, well."}, {'start': '4069.350', 'end': '4095.849', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I wanna work there because of the people right? And why is it the people? It's because you're gonna be spending so many hours with them every week that that really should be your greatest determination or your greatest you know the greatest thing as far as oh, yeah, like, this is why I want to work for this firm. It's because of the people. Right? That's that's what's so. That's really what your answer should really be is that"}, {'start': '4096.069', 'end': '4099.869', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: when you're choosing these firms, it's it's really about the people."}, {'start': '4102.200', 'end': '4102.890', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Does that make sense.'}, {'start': '4103.460', 'end': '4104.670', 'text': 'leila slayton: Yeah, it does. Thank you.'}, {'start': '4104.670', 'end': '4108.290', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Perfect, Sabina, I believe you are next. What can I answer for you?'}, {'start': '4108.979', 'end': '4112.819', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Yeah, my question is that so?'}, {'start': '4113.299', 'end': '4119.859', 'text': "Subina Adhikari: In terms of internships, I did get an internship for the summer, but it's not at a firm."}, {'start': '4120.000', 'end': '4120.590', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay.'}, {'start': '4120.590', 'end': '4126.100', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: But I believe my supervisor is a Cpa. License Cpa. Still, and it.'}, {'start': '4126.109', 'end': '4129.889', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The the question is, are they actively licensed.'}, {'start': '4130.600', 'end': '4132.379', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: I have to check on that. But.'}, {'start': '4132.642', 'end': '4138.669', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you ever want to check on that right. So if I went over back over here to our California Board of Accountancy.'}, {'start': '4138.930', 'end': '4148.020', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and I want to see if I'm a consumer. And I want to basically verify a license. And if I do like a license lookup."}, {'start': '4148.840', 'end': '4155.780', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And you know, let's see if, has Tchaikovsky lost his Cpa license? Hmm, let's go find out."}, {'start': '4156.250', 'end': '4161.799', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, so right over here, and we'll just do last name. Tchaikovsky."}, {'start': '4162.720', 'end': '4167.390', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Do a little search. And oh, Bennet, yeah, here we go.'}, {'start': '4167.819', 'end': '4172.620', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I'm still clear, and I'm good. Through June of 2027. How exciting!"}, {'start': '4173.100', 'end': '4180.110', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah. So this is my, this is how you can kind of go through and tell that if someone is an actively licensed Cpa or not.'}, {'start': '4180.500', 'end': '4181.850', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Okay, so.'}, {'start': '4181.850', 'end': '4185.370', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right. And the other thing I was gonna say to one of the things over here.'}, {'start': '4185.540', 'end': '4194.320', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: as you will also go through and see the experience completed is a meaning that I could sign off on audit or app test reports.'}, {'start': '4194.832', 'end': '4215.879', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But you know, by the way, to Spina, if they are licensed in a different state. That's okay. As long as they're actively licensed, the Board of Accountancy will accept it for the general experience. Right? So they can sign off on your experience for that period of time, if they refuse to let me know, and I'm more than happy to give you some language, to share with them."}, {'start': '4216.970', 'end': '4220.539', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Okay, so assuming, if.'}, {'start': '4220.650', 'end': '4224.879', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: After I check, and they are licensed. This is more, for, like.'}, {'start': '4225.250', 'end': '4227.260', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Like like my internship itself is.'}, {'start': '4227.504', 'end': '4233.380', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Would just, I would just, I would just approach them and say, Hey, do you mind signing off on my general experience? Right and.'}, {'start': '4233.380', 'end': '4235.109', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Oh, you can just get general experience.'}, {'start': '4235.110', 'end': '4241.749', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yes, and because if it's audit, it's a lot more, it's gonna be like a lot more like in depth. And"}, {'start': '4241.980', 'end': '4244.229', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: let me find this video hold on.'}, {'start': '4245.600', 'end': '4249.630', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Do you get signed off for internship experience, too, or just full time.'}, {'start': '4249.630', 'end': '4258.550', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Because you can sign up the account. You just need a year of experience, right? And that could be over internships. The internship I worked at Cooper's a library. And now pwc."}, {'start': '4259.143', 'end': '4264.589', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: that also. You know, basically, that's also oh, here we go."}, {'start': '4266.790', 'end': '4268.190', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay. So'}, {'start': '4270.750', 'end': '4279.759', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: if I look down here, I have links to the different levels of experience. And if you look over here in terms of the general experience, right.'}, {'start': '4280.250', 'end': '4289.940', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: listen to this general accounting. Experience may right. Big word may include any type of service or advice'}, {'start': '4290.150', 'end': '4296.370', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: involving the use of accounting at test compilation, management, advisory, financial advisory tax, or consulting skills'}, {'start': '4296.790', 'end': '4305.399', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: to qualify experience shall have been performed in accordance with applicable professional standards. Right? This is for a general experience, right? That's all you need"}, {'start': '4305.710', 'end': '4308.699', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: when it comes to attest. Right'}, {'start': '4308.910', 'end': '4319.079', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: here we go. Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy, look at this! This looks like a legal document. Because it is. And why is it like this. It's because when you're signing off"}, {'start': '4319.230', 'end': '4324.899', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: on an audit opinion, that is a very, very different responsibility level to the public'}, {'start': '4325.090', 'end': '4329.579', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right when you're signing off on an audit. You're basically verifying or basically"}, {'start': '4329.680', 'end': '4338.949', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: verifying is on the right word to say. I know that the auditing professors would get mad at me for saying that. But you're basically performing testing to make sure that you know what's in there is reasonable."}, {'start': '4339.050', 'end': '4350.510', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So when you go through and look at this, it is very, very focused, right? So to get signed off on this, which I used to call for me.'}, {'start': '4350.999', 'end': '4365.019', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: A lot different than the general experience. Right? So the the person you're working for this summer. And I think, by the way, it's great that you have that internship non accounting. Or if it's basically a at a"}, {'start': '4365.300', 'end': '4367.419', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: not accounting for. I think that's great."}, {'start': '4367.420', 'end': '4368.600', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Private industry.'}, {'start': '4368.760', 'end': '4372.730', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You should try to, I would try. And how many? When do you graduate from Fullerton?'}, {'start': '4373.422', 'end': '4376.620', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Spring 2026 in May. Yeah.'}, {'start': '4376.620', 'end': '4391.779', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So you probably want to try to. When you go to fall, you want to try to re leverage what you've learned here. Maybe you say you're graduating in December 26, so you can maybe try to get something for summer. 26."}, {'start': '4392.172', 'end': '4400.620', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's that's what I would try to kind of go through and do. But yeah, they should. They should be willing to sign off as long as they're actively licensed."}, {'start': '4402.450', 'end': '4403.350', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: All right.'}, {'start': '4403.770', 'end': '4404.700', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Does that make sense.'}, {'start': '4404.700', 'end': '4406.209', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Yeah, that makes sense, like.'}, {'start': '4406.210', 'end': '4409.880', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Golf, a Roman. What's happening."}, {'start': '4410.370', 'end': '4412.019', 'text': "Rovin Concepcion: It's good to see you again."}, {'start': '4412.020', 'end': '4412.740', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Good to see you.'}, {'start': '4413.049', 'end': '4422.329', 'text': "Rovin Concepcion: Have a quick question about the internships availability, especially for the upcoming falls. I know in your slides that, like in the summer, they're fully like done for big fall."}, {'start': '4422.460', 'end': '4431.119', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah. So just remember, like, if the ease, if you want to go big 4, right? If that's what your your goal is. The final 4. Right? It's like we're like an Nca to a team"}, {'start': '4431.580', 'end': '4437.589', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: right when you hit the final 4. If your goal is to hit a big 4 accounting firm.'}, {'start': '4438.380', 'end': '4444.299', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: the for Irvine. Right? The competition is absolutely insane.'}, {'start': '4444.990', 'end': '4447.630', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you have family that live up in San Jose.'}, {'start': '4447.840', 'end': '4452.669', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: it might be a little bit easier to get a job up in San Jose than it's gonna be to get a job in Irvine."}, {'start': '4453.290', 'end': '4467.149', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It can sometimes be a little bit easier to get a job in La than in Irvine. Why is Irvine so tough? Everybody wants to work in Irvine right? Because it's Orange County live at home save money."}, {'start': '4467.678', 'end': '4473.939', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But what I would just kind of tell you is that you have to be when it comes to recruiting for'}, {'start': '4474.210', 'end': '4484.400', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Big 4 accounting firms. And again, I don't want to be the one to tell you that you can't do it, but I'm not trying to say that it's it's going to be impossible to"}, {'start': '4485.376', 'end': '4491.770', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: essentially, you know, not not do it. But when I had a big 4 recruiter'}, {'start': '4492.000', 'end': '4497.080', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: come and talk to my my accounting one a class, and when she said.'}, {'start': '4497.320', 'end': '4503.780', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: They're interviewing in August for summer 27, that to me is insane."}, {'start': '4504.040', 'end': '4508.709', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And now there might be some internships that do open up.'}, {'start': '4509.110', 'end': '4514.750', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But again, like I wouldn't say like, Look by the way, too. Could you work"}, {'start': '4515.270', 'end': '4526.310', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: at a firm like Rsm. Or could you be working at Bdo or one of these other firms for a few years, and then go into Big 4. The answer is sure.'}, {'start': '4526.560', 'end': '4534.859', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: but I can honestly share with you if you basically graduate from Fullerton, you get a job at A, you know.'}, {'start': '4535.170', 'end': '4542.340', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Rsm, Fraser, you know, you get a job at one of these firms and you become a Cpa'}, {'start': '4542.650', 'end': '4549.000', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: that's going to help you be essentially with, you know, full time employment opportunities later on."}, {'start': '4550.110', 'end': '4560.970', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And there's another video that I have on. And I apologize for, you know constantly I'm not trying to promote my own channel, but there is something that you may want to watch."}, {'start': '4573.580', 'end': '4584.719', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So this is about an hour and 20\xa0min. I I break all the Youtube rules because, like this, video will be like 2\xa0h, and I should literally cut it down into snippets. But I I just don't go that way."}, {'start': '4584.930', 'end': '4591.850', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So this is basically me interviewing a recruiter and kind of talking about like'}, {'start': '4592.170', 'end': '4599.169', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: when you leave public accounting like, what is that like? Right? What are the different kind of things that you want to kind of? Keep in mind?'}, {'start': '4599.791', 'end': '4605.769', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: When you're kind of going through and and doing this just gonna put this down here."}, {'start': '4616.300', 'end': '4620.739', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So again, it it's really comes down to if you want Big 4."}, {'start': '4620.900', 'end': '4623.800', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And, by the way. So, Rogan, again, when when do you graduate.'}, {'start': '4625.992', 'end': '4635.029', 'text': "Rovin Concepcion: I might be graduating spring 2026, but I know we've had conversations of like trying to push it to like December, or try to have, like one more semester in."}, {'start': '4635.460', 'end': '4641.260', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, I mean getting into Big 4. You might be able to get a winter internship, possibly in la'}, {'start': '4641.707', 'end': '4648.090', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but again, I would be. There's a lot of really good firms that are out there right? And I think that if you"}, {'start': '4648.310', 'end': '4653.760', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: go through and do, have you watched any of these videos of the different interviews I've done with accounting firms."}, {'start': '4654.810', 'end': '4656.139', 'text': "Rovin Concepcion: No, it's my 1st time."}, {'start': '4656.140', 'end': '4656.790', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay?'}, {'start': '4656.890', 'end': '4674.259', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I'm pretty sure that these were made available to the accounting society if you want to. If you want to get a link to this. Just send me an email to the Ivc 30 to Cpa and say, Ben, can you send me the recruiting videos? Probably more than happy to kind of go with you and and share them"}, {'start': '4674.540', 'end': '4690.769', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: right just on that note as well. I also have an art, an AI application, whereby I took all of these different recruiting videos as well as other information. And I basically uploaded this into an AI application.'}, {'start': '4691.110', 'end': '4694.370', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So, Layla, give me a question to ask about recruiting.'}, {'start': '4697.560', 'end': '4698.290', 'text': 'leila slayton: Oh!'}, {'start': '4698.430', 'end': '4700.109', 'text': 'leila slayton: Oh! Putting me on the spot! There.'}, {'start': '4700.350', 'end': '4703.519', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You're my helper today. You're like totally helping me out. I really appreciate it."}, {'start': '4705.008', 'end': '4708.089', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: By the way, you also went to Newport Harbor right.'}, {'start': '4708.310', 'end': '4709.000', 'text': 'leila slayton: I did.'}, {'start': '4709.020', 'end': '4715.730', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, my, my my son's varsity volleyball team. They defeated Newport Harbor last night, so I feel a little bit sorry for you. So you know."}, {'start': '4715.730', 'end': '4717.950', 'text': 'leila slayton: Oh, okay, rivalry. Okay, I feel you.'}, {'start': '4717.950', 'end': '4718.780', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: There you go!'}, {'start': '4719.550', 'end': '4721.370', 'text': 'leila slayton: So give me a good question.'}, {'start': '4721.720', 'end': '4723.049', 'text': 'leila slayton: Like to ask a recruiter.'}, {'start': '4723.050', 'end': '4726.639', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, those are just about interviewing anything about anything recruiting, related.'}, {'start': '4728.920', 'end': '4730.080', 'text': 'leila slayton: I guess.'}, {'start': '4735.350', 'end': '4736.355', 'text': 'leila slayton: What?'}, {'start': '4738.460', 'end': '4741.019', 'text': 'leila slayton: What are some things that'}, {'start': '4742.520', 'end': '4745.229', 'text': 'leila slayton: do you like about your company culture? I guess.'}, {'start': '4752.230', 'end': '4753.930', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And actually, that's an interesting question."}, {'start': '4755.830', 'end': '4756.990', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So here you go.'}, {'start': '4757.400', 'end': '4764.429', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But basically, people appreciate a positive company culture, open communication support of an environment inclusively diversity.'}, {'start': '4766.620', 'end': '4767.750', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So there you go'}, {'start': '4767.870', 'end': '4773.509', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: like this. And that's also. And the reason why I have students use this, or like what are some"}, {'start': '4773.980', 'end': '4775.290', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: behavioral'}, {'start': '4778.710', 'end': '4782.580', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: questions that I can prepare for.'}, {'start': '4791.640', 'end': '4800.080', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So these are different types of questions. You may get on interviews right? And you gotta be careful because you don't want to recognize you don't want to memorize"}, {'start': '4800.300', 'end': '4804.929', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: answers and give them. You want to have your answers be really, really genuine.'}, {'start': '4805.200', 'end': '4812.559', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So this is again something that when you're kind of giving these different, you know, types of answers. Just kind of be mindful of it."}, {'start': '4813.930', 'end': '4822.650', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But yeah, but if you want access to any like, if you for what I'm showing you guys up here. I'm more than happy to send these over to you. I also have apps for"}, {'start': '4822.780', 'end': '4825.220', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: intermediate financial and managerial.'}, {'start': '4825.400', 'end': '4831.269', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So always fun and exciting, and it's fed with my stuff. So it's not going to be hopefully too crazy of answers."}, {'start': '4831.390', 'end': '4832.230', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay?'}, {'start': '4832.670', 'end': '4836.189', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I wrote, did I answer your questions?'}, {'start': '4836.190', 'end': '4837.630', 'text': 'Rovin Concepcion: Yes, you did. I appreciate it. Thank you.'}, {'start': '4837.630', 'end': '4839.809', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No worries. Man. Peter, how can I help you?'}, {'start': '4840.020', 'end': '4857.069', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: I'm good. Thank you for taking your time out of your day. So I have a question. Since. This has been a very confusing since since 150 units is going away. Is that going to be officially take effect next summer, July 2,026."}, {'start': '4857.370', 'end': '4860.100', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: No, there's gonna be. There's gonna be a phase out period."}, {'start': '4860.310', 'end': '4863.210', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? So they they won't do something like"}, {'start': '4863.410', 'end': '4871.140', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: when you look at this, you can kind of see the current Credit Legacy pathway is probably going to end at the end of 2028, right.'}, {'start': '4871.140', 'end': '4871.880', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Oh!'}, {'start': '4871.880', 'end': '4878.482', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So this is when you look at this, it's like. And again, I'm gonna include this. I'm gonna send this over. So"}, {'start': '4879.080', 'end': '4882.410', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: this presentation, then he can send it out to you guys who attended'}, {'start': '4883.860', 'end': '4889.709', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: when you're going through, though like and looking at like these different like legacy pathways, or whatever else."}, {'start': '4890.157', 'end': '4898.089', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's there they, you know, I've had conversations with the Board of Accountancy, and we still had. They're asking me is like, well, then it"}, {'start': '4898.470', 'end': '4908.509', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: could you create a certificate that encompasses the different classes so that a student can come in? And then could that count? Not necessarily as a master's."}, {'start': '4908.640', 'end': '4917.369', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but they're trying to figure out ways because they realize that when the Cba told me that"}, {'start': '4918.020', 'end': '4927.309', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Irvine Valley College offers more accounting courses than Uci, I mean? That's that's that's absolutely insane."}, {'start': '4927.440', 'end': '4933.160', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I mean, that's for an undergraduate level like that's crazy. We do not offer more accounting courses in Fullerton."}, {'start': '4933.340', 'end': '4956.470', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But when we're offering this many, or you know, basically for students to kind of go through and take the California community colleges have really kind of taken on like a lot of the accounting education in California, because we get so many students that basically come back and wanting to kind of take classes at night, or whatever else may have you."}, {'start': '4957.130', 'end': '4963.880', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So again, it's it's 1 of those things where Peter I mean. I don't think anybody knows, and if they say they know they don't"}, {'start': '4964.442', 'end': '4971.229', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: but I would kind of the way I would really do. It is just apply to sit for the exam as soon as possible.'}, {'start': '4971.440', 'end': '4986.559', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and then honestly, like and again, if the law becomes becomes law, then you as an accounting major, you would basically be able to get away with, you know, 120 semester units with 2 years of experience.'}, {'start': '4987.430', 'end': '4995.189', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: So how does 2 years experience will work? Because I was originally gonna go. My master's. However, since my."}, {'start': '4995.190', 'end': '4999.490', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, yeah. So what? I've also what I've heard about them. So again, with the Master's degree."}, {'start': '4999.680', 'end': '5008.049', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: right, I would want you to go for free. Get somebody else to pay for it like Deloitte, right at Uci, or for or Fullerton, get a scholarship'}, {'start': '5008.770', 'end': '5015.990', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: again. The Master's degree is great, but the Master's degree. I know that in their conversations they said."}, {'start': '5016.230', 'end': '5019.659', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you have a bachelor's plus a master's in accounting."}, {'start': '5020.000', 'end': '5025.010', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: you would only need one year of experience. And I think this is also going to be post implementation.'}, {'start': '5025.490', 'end': '5032.079', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What they're trying to do is to get basically go back to. When I was a Cpa. Back a long time ago."}, {'start': '5032.190', 'end': '5036.259', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: which was bachelor's degree. 2 years of experience. You're a Cpa."}, {'start': '5038.590', 'end': '5045.030', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: Oh, okay, that was my original plan. But now, since I'm graduating spring 2,026, I'm."}, {'start': '5045.030', 'end': '5048.130', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: By the way, Peter, do you? Most importantly, I'm gonna ask this question."}, {'start': '5048.290', 'end': '5048.730', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Go ahead!'}, {'start': '5048.730', 'end': '5050.230', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You have a job lined up.'}, {'start': '5050.460', 'end': '5053.030', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Not yet. But I'm still looking for internships."}, {'start': '5053.370', 'end': '5058.207', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Internships for this summer are going to be incredibly difficult to find right.'}, {'start': '5058.580', 'end': '5059.150', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: But.'}, {'start': '5059.150', 'end': '5066.200', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If if you do, a Master's degree right, if you want to kind of reenter into the recruiting pipeline, you want to basically get a"}, {'start': '5067.810', 'end': '5075.110', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: get a master's, and I think if you do get a master's, if deloitte sponsors that I think they offer you a full time position."}, {'start': '5075.590', 'end': '5098.960', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I would just tell you with the masters. Again, if you're using that as to basically spend more time, I've also had students who have gone the 1 50, and they've used that to basically take you go into community colleges and getting the rest of their units done. They've also done it that way as well, but again, I would just really, I don't want you to go into debt. That is unnecessary."}, {'start': '5099.260', 'end': '5122.340', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: I I see but that was not oh, I wasn't finished that. But I was actually going now towards the bachelor's. I was a between spring 2,026. But it's since the law is going to take effect. You're saying I might need 1 50 but I I just declared my minor concentration, just in case if it doesn't pass."}, {'start': '5122.340', 'end': '5143.139', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah. But but, Peter, though here's the other thing, too, is that if you get a bachelor's degree, can you take the other 30 semester units at a community college? The answer is absolutely yes, right. The Board of Accountancy, like Cal State Fullerton, will only take 60 semester units, or any Cal State will only take a maximum of 2 years from any community college"}, {'start': '5143.260', 'end': '5157.190', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: to get your bachelor's degree. You're gonna have to at least spend 60 semester units at that full 4 year university when it comes to the 1 50. Many students basically take that last year and do it in a community college."}, {'start': '5157.310', 'end': '5161.600', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: why do they do it to get the 1 50? Because it's 46 bucks per user."}, {'start': '5161.945', 'end': '5166.780', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: I I transfer already I already met. I already met the Max. 70. So.'}, {'start': '5167.176', 'end': '5167.969', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Good, awesome.'}, {'start': '5167.970', 'end': '5170.525', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: I can't. I can't. I can't go back. Basically."}, {'start': '5170.810', 'end': '5180.219', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You can always go back if you want to take more classes at community college, you know, it doesn't matter like. So it's not about like when you. This is actually, I'm glad you're making bringing up this point."}, {'start': '5180.700', 'end': '5186.269', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And when you're going through and applying to the California Board of Accountancy."}, {'start': '5186.450', 'end': '5195.900', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you're gonna be sending them your transcripts, not only from Cal State, Fullerton, right? And Tatiana. I'm just gonna use you right now as"}, {'start': '5196.110', 'end': '5203.860', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: as another example. So Tatiana went to Northern Arizona University. She then went to Occ, and now she's at Cal State Fullerton."}, {'start': '5203.970', 'end': '5213.430', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So Tatiana, when she goes to apply to the Board of accountancy. She's gonna send separate electronic transcripts from Cal State, Fullerton."}, {'start': '5213.670', 'end': '5219.180', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Orange Court Coast and Nau. She's gonna send it to all from all of those"}, {'start': '5219.290', 'end': '5227.389', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: different places. It doesn't matter what Cal state Fullerton has accepted or has not accepted"}, {'start': '5227.510', 'end': '5243.559', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right. What matters is. Do you have a bachelor's degree which will basically show on your Cal State Fullerton Transcript. And then ultimately, do you have the 1 50? But remember again, they only care about the 1 50. Once you're ready to become licensed"}, {'start': '5243.690', 'end': '5246.949', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right for sitting for the exam. It's 1 20"}, {'start': '5247.060', 'end': '5249.789', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: for licensure. It's gonna be the 1 50"}, {'start': '5250.780', 'end': '5264.439', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you could. You could. So you if you wanted to. You could get your bachelor's from Fullerton, and you could keep going to any California community colleges if you needed it to take more units. It's irrelevant as to whether or not Fullerton accepts the units."}, {'start': '5266.560', 'end': '5267.769', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Does that make sense.'}, {'start': '5269.020', 'end': '5275.011', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Yes and no, because I already declare my minor concentration already. So I really.'}, {'start': '5275.440', 'end': '5304.210', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, so that that's between you and Cal State Fullerton. Right? Yeah. Your minor con. That's between you and Fullerton, right? But say, say, for example. So Layla, she's gonna graduate from Cal State Fullerton with 120 semester units. If Layla says, you know, I want to spend my money going to Europe and having a great time. I don't want to spend money on my undergrad. I don't want to give Fullerton any more money. I don't want to deal with the parking. I'm going to go to a community college instead to get the remaining 30 semester units. You can absolutely do that."}, {'start': '5304.350', 'end': '5311.509', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because, again, the only thing that's really being awarded to you by Cal State Fullerton, is your bachelor's degree"}, {'start': '5311.740', 'end': '5324.909', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right, that you absolutely need your bachelor's degree to sit within 6 months to become, to sit for the exam. You need a bachelor's degree to become license, but those other additional units can be basically be taken anywhere."}, {'start': '5325.250', 'end': '5341.539', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Oh, okay, and so I was more thinking about looking more internship sometime in no, in the spring 2,026. So I do. You have like any suggestions to Firm to go with? Should I go with more midterm firms or the small firms.'}, {'start': '5341.540', 'end': '5344.799', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You have to be recruiting right now.'}, {'start': '5344.920', 'end': '5350.309', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: What does that mean? Linkedin? Profile is done, and fully up to date.'}, {'start': '5350.310', 'end': '5350.700', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Yeah.'}, {'start': '5350.700', 'end': '5353.539', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Resume, fully ready to go.'}, {'start': '5353.540', 'end': '5354.150', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Or you ready to.'}, {'start': '5354.150', 'end': '5361.210', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And you've got to be also. I would really be saying, doing your research on the different accounting firms."}, {'start': '5361.610', 'end': '5366.239', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You could sit down and watch 35\xa0h of meetings'}, {'start': '5366.710', 'end': '5370.530', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: like literally, this is me talking with Andrea'}, {'start': '5370.640', 'end': '5385.179', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: with Rsm. For like an hour probably is going to be better on times 2 speed. But when I hold these meetings right, they're literally like this is Fraser, which is a firm that's like literally right off the 22 in the 5"}, {'start': '5386.040', 'end': '5399.700', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: this is Ryan, the partner at Fraser, who I've known for many years. Natalie Will is the other person going through, and he's kind of going through and answering different questions, basically with students and and everybody else."}, {'start': '5399.900', 'end': '5410.170', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: That was me up in Seattle while I was holding the meeting. So there you go always fun. But again you have to go through and do your research on these different firms'}, {'start': '5410.300', 'end': '5427.680', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: again. I have a lot of if you if you do take classes at Ivc, and you want to be a part of Ivc 30 to Cpa, right? I have a lot of different things that are in here when you world Cpa Review was basically Roger Cpa Review.'}, {'start': '5428.200', 'end': '5429.379', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: let me pull this up.'}, {'start': '5431.570', 'end': '5432.320', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Oh.'}, {'start': '5439.360', 'end': '5444.410', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: so this was a. This is basically a guidebook. I wrote back.'}, {'start': '5444.860', 'end': '5454.779', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and I want to say it was 2016, but most of it is still extremely relevant, which is talking about. How do firms go through and recruit.'}, {'start': '5455.110', 'end': '5464.499', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? What's the structure of firms? What are they going through and looking for? Right? What are these firms basically looking for? And then what you're gonna have to kind of go through and do"}, {'start': '5464.520', 'end': '5488.310', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: someone changing, telling you to change yourself in terms of who you are. But you need to know what these firms are looking for in terms of their candidates. Right? And again, it's not going to be all grades or the classes you've taken right? So Jolie was on the if you've worked in. If I worked at a boba shop, if I worked at in and out, if I worked at Chick-fil-a."}, {'start': '5488.400', 'end': '5495.409', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: if I've worked at Tarjay. If I've worked at Walmart any of these different places where I've gone through, and I've worked"}, {'start': '5495.590', 'end': '5501.310', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: all of these are going to be great experiences because you've had that customer service experience."}, {'start': '5501.420', 'end': '5504.839', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and that is incredibly important for recruiting.'}, {'start': '5505.060', 'end': '5512.830', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because, remember, they're not just. It's not about the grades. It's about who you are as a person, and how you are going to be interacting"}, {'start': '5512.940', 'end': '5516.400', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: with the other employees as well as their clients.'}, {'start': '5516.610', 'end': '5517.589', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: Oh, how's the clients?"}, {'start': '5517.590', 'end': '5521.150', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah. So you have to really just make sure you got your resume.'}, {'start': '5521.410', 'end': '5521.850', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Okay.'}, {'start': '5521.850', 'end': '5524.629', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I know that I know that Fullerton has a great career center.'}, {'start': '5524.630', 'end': '5528.899', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Oh, absolutely, I actually meaning my business careers today, actually.'}, {'start': '5528.900', 'end': '5529.600', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Good.'}, {'start': '5530.050', 'end': '5533.680', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: So I have my resumes, my Linkedin update to go.'}, {'start': '5534.030', 'end': '5537.439', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, you have. And again, all those things are really critical. Because again.'}, {'start': '5537.440', 'end': '5538.170', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Exactly.'}, {'start': '5538.540', 'end': '5540.999', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You know. That's that's what you have to kind of. Be ready for."}, {'start': '5541.360', 'end': '5546.043', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: It kind of had to be right, basically can't have everything ready to go just through the company research."}, {'start': '5546.290', 'end': '5555.830', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, you you. And it's and you have to be genuine to who you are, and you know, like you're kind of interviewing them as much as they're interviewing you. But like, remember this, too."}, {'start': '5555.980', 'end': '5563.809', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And this is what I said at the very beginning of this we are in a different environment. The consulting jobs have dried up. Those are gone.'}, {'start': '5563.930', 'end': '5584.960', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So a lot of students that are basically at Usc Ucla Berkeley, which have very high brand names, those students are going into accounting. I had a conversation during my office hours. By the way, if you ever want to come in and have a conversation with me. You can find my office hours, my Ivc faculty website. I have Zoom.'}, {'start': '5585.250', 'end': '5592.010', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: basically, for the next few weeks on Zoom on Tuesdays, from like 9 to 1230 on zoom.'}, {'start': '5592.680', 'end': '5600.389', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: What I would tell you is is that I had 2 students who were at Haas Berkeley. Right, Haas, this is like'}, {'start': '5600.540', 'end': '5612.580', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: one of the top 5 business schools in the country don't have internships this summer. It's bad. Okay? So you have to be extremely proactive"}, {'start': '5612.850', 'end': '5618.699', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: when it comes to recruiting, and that's why I started out this presentation."}, {'start': '5618.800', 'end': '5627.030', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And why many of you, when you, when you're asking me about the and I'm not trying to belittle you about like your questions. But this is the most important question"}, {'start': '5627.270', 'end': '5632.600', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: that you need to be able to answer for yourself. And there are a lot of resources out there'}, {'start': '5632.710', 'end': '5637.129', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: you can find out. By the way, do are we all familiar? What is the Pcaob?'}, {'start': '5638.830', 'end': '5640.470', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What's the Pcaob."}, {'start': '5640.700', 'end': '5643.820', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: Pca. That's actually I'm not too familiar."}, {'start': '5644.050', 'end': '5653.850', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, this is called the Public Company, accounting Oversight board right? And this is a website whereby you can basically find out'}, {'start': '5654.240', 'end': '5658.819', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: who is the Auditor for a particular publicly traded company.'}, {'start': '5659.000', 'end': '5663.979', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Why is this so important? If I'm going through a meeting, say, with Hassel and White."}, {'start': '5664.240', 'end': '5668.780', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Rsm. I can find out who their clients are.'}, {'start': '5669.240', 'end': '5670.070', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right.'}, {'start': '5670.950', 'end': '5685.309', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Lot of things I can do a lot of research I can do prior to walking in the door, walking in to meet the firms. If you're walking into that huge room with all those people, because I know that fall meet the firms which is probably undergoing planning right now."}, {'start': '5685.500', 'end': '5695.549', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: that's gonna be a huge event. I'm hopefully gonna try to make it this year. It's gonna be a huge event. I always call it sneaking into the firms. There'll be a huge event."}, {'start': '5695.710', 'end': '5704.300', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But you want to do your diligence before you walk in there, because, like everybody's going to go to the Big 4. But you want to go to other areas very important to do"}, {'start': '5704.860', 'end': '5707.190', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: so. Peter, does that help.'}, {'start': '5707.480', 'end': '5717.210', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: No, actually very helpful. It's just it's just I find it very confusing. I mean, I actually been quite a few interviews. And I noticed the times that"}, {'start': '5717.420', 'end': '5724.669', 'text': "Peter Casas-Alvarado: they're telling me that if you don't have meet the student Gpas, and you're never gonna meet up at intercept. So that's why I was like."}, {'start': '5724.670', 'end': '5725.840', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Go to a different firm.'}, {'start': '5725.970', 'end': '5730.670', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I mean, like, look the Gpa. Like, how do you get rid of a Gpa. You take and pass the Cpa. Exam.'}, {'start': '5731.680', 'end': '5733.590', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Oh, you pass the Cpa. Exams.'}, {'start': '5733.590', 'end': '5739.670', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's I mean, that's more important to me than it's like Gpa. To me. It's it's if you don't have a good Gpa."}, {'start': '5739.900', 'end': '5748.969', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: A partner in an accounting firm once told me this, he basically said, Look, if you don't have a good Gpa, there, better be a good explanation, meaning that I was working 80\xa0HA week."}, {'start': '5749.080', 'end': '5762.009', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I was, you know, raising a family, whatever else, then that can kind of explain it away. But again, it's really about the grades are important. They're not everything important. But again, like, when you're interviewing, it's like."}, {'start': '5762.170', 'end': '5770.096', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: How are you coming across all those different types of things? And I really think that if you do spend the time with those videos that I've referenced"}, {'start': '5770.510', 'end': '5772.260', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: again that should help you.'}, {'start': '5772.420', 'end': '5773.200', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So.'}, {'start': '5773.410', 'end': '5778.150', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Perfectly are you gonna be sending out the the resource at the after.'}, {'start': '5778.150', 'end': '5787.290', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yes, I'm gonna send out. I'm basically gonna send out this. And then I can also send out a link basically include in the link to the Pre meet the firms meetings. If you want to watch those videos."}, {'start': '5787.290', 'end': '5789.859', 'text': 'Peter Casas-Alvarado: Thank you so much. This has been super, helpful.'}, {'start': '5789.860', 'end': '5793.219', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No worries, Joel. You were next, I believe.'}, {'start': '5794.400', 'end': '5796.179', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: sorry for making you wait. What's up, dude?"}, {'start': '5797.205', 'end': '5800.560', 'text': "Joel Kim: It's all good. Do you mind opening my Cpa map?"}, {'start': '5813.340', 'end': '5827.949', 'text': 'Joel Kim: I just wanna verify the information on here everything in the bright blue. Essentially, I only need 15 units of accounting, and then the 3 or 4 units of auditing or accounting ethics. And then I would technically'}, {'start': '5828.580', 'end': '5832.849', 'text': "Joel Kim: fulfill all the requirements. Right? Is basically what it's saying."}, {'start': '5833.200', 'end': '5835.139', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Did you do this, or did I do this?'}, {'start': '5835.732', 'end': '5838.510', 'text': 'Joel Kim: I color coordinated it because I.'}, {'start': '5838.510', 'end': '5842.019', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Did I? Did I do your mapping, though or no? Was this.'}, {'start': '5842.020', 'end': '5843.140', 'text': 'Joel Kim: Oh, yeah, yeah, you did.'}, {'start': '5843.200', 'end': '5851.140', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, okay, so yeah, I mean, like, that's basically when it comes to see here."}, {'start': '5856.390', 'end': '5861.510', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: okay, so right now, I'm showing you having 97 units. Is that correct total."}, {'start': '5862.040', 'end': '5869.170', 'text': 'Joel Kim: Oh, yeah, I still have around 2 years left to finish everything but right, I guess, like specific wise.'}, {'start': '5869.470', 'end': '5884.430', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, I mean, like, look, I mean, you know, you're on. You're basically with what you're doing right over here. You're you're essentially like, you're on track in terms of going through. And you're taking the lower division classes. You're basically getting through the"}, {'start': '5885.470', 'end': '5889.189', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you're basically now, basic, you're are you taking an accounting this semester."}, {'start': '5890.365', 'end': '5890.750', 'text': 'Joel Kim: Yeah.'}, {'start': '5890.750', 'end': '5892.750', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: What are? What classes are you taking this semester.'}, {'start': '5893.977', 'end': '5896.209', 'text': "Joel Kim: Right now I'm taking intermediate. So tier one a."}, {'start': '5897.330', 'end': '5915.480', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, so you, okay? And then you're okay. So these are future. Okay? So yeah, so you're gonna be having to take accounting 3 0, 7, 3 0, 8, and then 2 electives. Right? So that's gonna give you another 12 semester units of accounting right? So under the current guidelines, you would need another 3 semester units."}, {'start': '5916.075', 'end': '5929.100', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Because if you have 9 here, if you're taking another 12 units of Calci Fullerton, but obviously under the new guidelines in terms of what's changing. More than likely that will actually be enough in terms of what you have."}, {'start': '5930.370', 'end': '5930.950', 'text': 'Joel Kim: Okay.'}, {'start': '5931.130', 'end': '5936.620', 'text': 'Joel Kim: And I guess, following up with that, I know you kind of mentioned it already, but I guess just to clarify.'}, {'start': '5936.620', 'end': '5940.740', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: By the way, Joel, by the way, just before I go any further, do you have a job lined up.'}, {'start': '5941.628', 'end': '5947.359', 'text': 'Joel Kim: Yes, I have 2 internships, and I technically have a full time job secured with one of them.'}, {'start': '5947.360', 'end': '5950.239', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Congratulations. Okay, go ahead. Back to your question.'}, {'start': '5953.480', 'end': '5971.229', 'text': "Joel Kim: would you recommend focusing this? So I know the requirement is changing. So would you recommend focusing on getting the 1 21st or a bachelor's first, st and then finishing the exams, and then, if we need to go back and finish the other 30 units to get to 1 50."}, {'start': '5971.230', 'end': '5971.920', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yes.'}, {'start': '5972.400', 'end': '5973.030', 'text': 'Joel Kim: Okay.'}, {'start': '5973.500', 'end': '5983.849', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: My. The only way my answer to that would be no, is that if you did not have a job lined up, but the fact that you have a job lined up again. Congratulations! That's absolutely fantastic."}, {'start': '5984.434', 'end': '5990.579', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's really what is. Probably, if if any, if anything, is coming out of this call"}, {'start': '5990.790', 'end': '5998.899', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: that, you know, or this this presentation is that the importance of getting a job? I cannot state this enough. And it's just because"}, {'start': '5999.070', 'end': '6007.590', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I get a lot of students who reach out to me, and the harder conversations are the ones that are about to graduate. They do not have a job.'}, {'start': '6007.820', 'end': '6028.010', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's a really really tough conversation. And you know, if you can't get an accounting job, I'm not telling you to go work at chipotle or Target, or one of these other place or in and out. But honestly, those types of jobs where you're getting like that customer interaction can be absolutely critical."}, {'start': '6029.130', 'end': '6034.499', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's really what I would also kind of tell you as well in terms of like, okay, how do we?"}, {'start': '6035.920', 'end': '6041.059', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You know. And again, it's really the job. Part of this is by far the most important thing."}, {'start': '6042.870', 'end': '6043.949', 'text': 'Joel Kim: Okay. Thank you.'}, {'start': '6043.950', 'end': '6045.650', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Sure, Samina.'}, {'start': '6046.700', 'end': '6049.619', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Oh, yeah, Hi, in terms of this'}, {'start': '6049.760', 'end': '6058.080', 'text': "Subina Adhikari: job experiences you talked about. Would other types of experiences like, I don't know tutoring students or younger children. Also."}, {'start': '6058.080', 'end': '6058.900', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Sure you've got it."}, {'start': '6058.900', 'end': '6059.230', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay?'}, {'start': '6059.230', 'end': '6062.630', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Basically, you've had issues with probably had to deal with parents right?"}, {'start': '6062.630', 'end': '6063.065', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Yeah.'}, {'start': '6063.500', 'end': '6068.070', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And parents aren't fun to deal with. Right? That's that's why I will never teach A. K through 12,"}, {'start': '6068.330', 'end': '6079.580', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because then the parents feel free to contact the professors. If a parent contacts me as a community college professor or a college professor, I just say, Hey, dude, it's Ferpa. I can't. I can't talk to you. Sorry."}, {'start': '6080.360', 'end': '6083.260', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: So yeah, you have to deal with parents. Parents are crazy.'}, {'start': '6088.040', 'end': '6096.659', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But again also, Sabia, the the other thing I would tell you, too, right if you're dealing with, if you're if you're in, and this is something I I have like conversations with. So"}, {'start': '6097.120', 'end': '6103.230', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: one of the I'm just gonna bring up volleyball again. Is that one of the students who is from Berkeley."}, {'start': '6103.600', 'end': '6115.390', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: He was at a volleyball club in San Jose, and I don't think he had even thought about it. I go dude. I go. You need to go through and talk to those parents that you were involved in a team sport."}, {'start': '6116.450', 'end': '6120.640', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And you need to see what kind of networking you can kind of go through and do'}, {'start': '6121.471', 'end': '6139.120', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: that's really it's really important to be talking to your parents, your parents, friends, family, friends, relatives, about helping them get you a job right? And this is really where the fact that all of you chose to go into accounting is awesome. Right?"}, {'start': '6139.350', 'end': '6141.210', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The classes are horrible.'}, {'start': '6141.430', 'end': '6151.069', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: right? Taking intermediate accounting. It's like, Oh, like when I took intermediate at Ucsb, that was harder than any course I ever took in law school"}, {'start': '6151.260', 'end': '6157.850', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: like hands down. Intermediate accounting is brutal, right? The classes are really tough.'}, {'start': '6158.270', 'end': '6167.220', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but it's 1 of the things that when you're done it just opens up so many more opportunities for you."}, {'start': '6167.960', 'end': '6178.169', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's really what you really, it's. It's really why you do accounting. It's just it's just basically it's 1 of those things where it's just like. It's a great start."}, {'start': '6178.330', 'end': '6186.609', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's 1 of the only business type majors after your accounting undergraduate career where it can really lead to something concrete."}, {'start': '6186.750', 'end': '6192.789', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I am not saying that working for an accounting firm is the cat's pajamas. Right? It's not everything."}, {'start': '6193.130', 'end': '6195.240', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And for me personally.'}, {'start': '6195.570', 'end': '6204.819', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: when I went through and was working in public accounting. My attitude was horrible. I lasted like I was. I had to be there for 2 years. I was there for 2 years.'}, {'start': '6204.980', 'end': '6211.650', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but then, like looking back on it, there's a lot of different things I would have done differently in terms of like my working"}, {'start': '6212.232', 'end': '6227.640', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but it was a great experience, and you know, it's a great experience for you to basically work in public accounting for a few years. Where you end up. Going to work at a firm is really important in terms of as to if you like the people or not."}, {'start': '6227.920', 'end': '6235.249', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: that's really what you want to be looking for, and because it's just like your goal should be to become a Cpa."}, {'start': '6235.550', 'end': '6243.270', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because once you have that Cpa license, it's just Gonna provide you with the ultimate amount of mobility in terms of your career."}, {'start': '6243.380', 'end': '6247.179', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: you will literally be able to go through and to reinvent yourself'}, {'start': '6247.930', 'end': '6251.440', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: multiple times over because you have that license.'}, {'start': '6251.930', 'end': '6260.790', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's really what I would kind of go through and share with you as as far as like the as far as like the experience, and everything else goes so"}, {'start': '6261.070', 'end': '6267.031', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: again. But I would also try to get the that kind of job where you're actually going to be kind of going through. And"}, {'start': '6267.700', 'end': '6268.570', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: you know.'}, {'start': '6268.860', 'end': '6274.009', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you know, where can I get a job? Or I'm going through and getting a lot of different interactions."}, {'start': '6275.600', 'end': '6279.400', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So what other questions can I answer for you?'}, {'start': '6279.962', 'end': '6280.930', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: Had a question.'}, {'start': '6280.930', 'end': '6281.510', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Sure.'}, {'start': '6282.260', 'end': '6288.059', 'text': "Kyle Santizo: So I'm gonna be getting my bachelor's degree in the next couple of weeks for this month."}, {'start': '6288.060', 'end': '6289.179', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Do you have a job lined up?'}, {'start': '6289.670', 'end': '6292.690', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I lined up. Kyle, do you have a job lined up.'}, {'start': '6292.690', 'end': '6300.610', 'text': "Kyle Santizo: I currently have a part time job. That's not accounting. But I am. I do have 2 internships that I'm interviewing for."}, {'start': '6300.610', 'end': '6301.140', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay.'}, {'start': '6301.140', 'end': '6302.679', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: So hopefully I can get those.'}, {'start': '6303.760', 'end': '6305.340', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: This summer, or when are they for.'}, {'start': '6306.040', 'end': '6307.380', 'text': "Kyle Santizo: It's for the summer. Yeah."}, {'start': '6307.380', 'end': '6310.549', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, awesome. That's wow. That's crazy for accounting firms."}, {'start': '6310.780', 'end': '6315.369', 'text': "Kyle Santizo: Well, not. It's not. It's not an accounting firm. It's more like a it's more smaller."}, {'start': '6315.480', 'end': '6316.820', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: more the smaller firm.'}, {'start': '6318.159', 'end': '6322.110', 'text': "Kyle Santizo: So I'm gonna be applying for the Cpa. But"}, {'start': '6322.280', 'end': '6326.190', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: when I apply, do I put that on contingent or non contingent.'}, {'start': '6326.520', 'end': '6331.750', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Well, if you don't have your bachelor's degree yet when you're making the application, then it would be contingent."}, {'start': '6333.000', 'end': '6342.190', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: because when you if you have to. If you're submitting your transcript right now, the biggest question is on your direct on your transcript. Does it show you've been awarded a bachelor's degree."}, {'start': '6343.190', 'end': '6344.650', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: Okay, got it?'}, {'start': '6344.830', 'end': '6345.640', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's all."}, {'start': '6346.140', 'end': '6347.649', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: Okay. Alright. Thank you.'}, {'start': '6347.650', 'end': '6350.329', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And have you? Have you purchased a Cpa review course yet?'}, {'start': '6350.640', 'end': '6351.670', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: No, not yet.'}, {'start': '6351.890', 'end': '6358.350', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, so just to if you're buying it on your own the ones I would really be looking at"}, {'start': '6358.580', 'end': '6360.597', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: would essentially be'}, {'start': '6361.570', 'end': '6366.239', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: the ones that I would say will probably be the most. The ones I would be looking at would be New World'}, {'start': '6366.530', 'end': '6368.989', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Ninja Becker, surgeon.'}, {'start': '6369.150', 'end': '6376.179', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But again, you want to get a free trial of each of them prior to going through and doing purchasing.'}, {'start': '6376.550', 'end': '6382.109', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you the good thing about Ninja, it's like on a subscription like it's like 90 bucks a month, I think, per part"}, {'start': '6382.220', 'end': '6388.919', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: so. But if you want information, or if you want a discount on New World, let me know, and I can put you in touch with the rep.'}, {'start': '6389.720', 'end': '6391.159', 'text': 'Kyle Santizo: Okay, perfect. Thank you.'}, {'start': '6393.480', 'end': '6397.079', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What other questions? It's been great. It was fun."}, {'start': '6400.230', 'end': '6408.949', 'text': "Soham Santosh: So I actually had a question. You said the task base simulations on Becker weren't as good as like the ones on the other service platforms like."}, {'start': '6408.950', 'end': '6418.869', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So so here's what I would do. This is again. I'm gonna say this allegedly right. Everything I'm telling you right now is my opinion right? And."}, {'start': '6418.870', 'end': '6419.390', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Bye.'}, {'start': '6419.690', 'end': '6427.730', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: What I would do is I would get a free trial of ninja, get a free trial of you world'}, {'start': '6428.130', 'end': '6433.850', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and look. Compare the task based simulations between the 2. They may have gotten better.'}, {'start': '6434.020', 'end': '6439.950', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The thing I would share with you, though, Soham, is that, did you take 3 0 1 a and 3 0. 1 B. At Cal State, Fullerton.'}, {'start': '6439.950', 'end': '6440.940', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yeah, I did.'}, {'start': '6440.940', 'end': '6443.840', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Where all of your exam questions, multiple choice.'}, {'start': '6444.591', 'end': '6450.839', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: No, there were like for my 3 1 b class. They were like fill in the blank questions. So we had to do.'}, {'start': '6450.840', 'end': '6453.469', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Do? Do they have any computational, though? Were there any.'}, {'start': '6453.470', 'end': '6453.800', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yes.'}, {'start': '6453.800', 'end': '6462.079', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay? Good. Okay. So that really, if you took and again, if you had a challenging instructor'}, {'start': '6462.260', 'end': '6466.950', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: who really made you like, learn the material pretty deeply'}, {'start': '6467.170', 'end': '6471.850', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: through. And again, the way I do it is with through problem based learning.'}, {'start': '6472.010', 'end': '6477.969', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Then, when you go to task based simulations, it should be a lot better.'}, {'start': '6478.170', 'end': '6485.690', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What I would do in terms of Becker. Right? Is that again you're are you? Are you using Becker right now?"}, {'start': '6486.100', 'end': '6487.800', 'text': "Soham Santosh: Yeah. So I'm using Becca right now."}, {'start': '6487.800', 'end': '6492.270', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So what's a what's a part of these like so? And you're studying for far correct."}, {'start': '6493.139', 'end': '6493.590', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yeah.'}, {'start': '6493.590', 'end': '6500.610', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, so what's a section? What's the section that you're in in terms of? Far?"}, {'start': '6500.990', 'end': '6504.929', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What's the section that you're learning right now in the Becker modules?"}, {'start': '6504.930', 'end': '6510.609', 'text': "Soham Santosh: I think I'm just on the 1st one I just started like last week. I activated my subscription."}, {'start': '6511.440', 'end': '6514.389', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So you obviously have a job at an accounting firm congratulations.'}, {'start': '6515.303', 'end': '6516.330', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Thank you.'}, {'start': '6516.680', 'end': '6522.989', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So if I go to far, right and I'll just, I'm just gonna pull up one of these things. Is that"}, {'start': '6523.980', 'end': '6525.040', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: okay?'}, {'start': '6530.180', 'end': '6537.610', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So say, if I go over here to inventory. And I look at the task based simulations right and'}, {'start': '6537.760', 'end': '6538.760', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: ta-ta-ta!'}, {'start': '6540.140', 'end': '6550.659', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And what I would be doing is I would look at after you've kind of gone through the material on, far on on Becker that I would kind of go through and take a look at you world, or at ninja."}, {'start': '6551.292', 'end': '6556.940', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And what I would kind of do is to say, well, which ones are kind of be.'}, {'start': '6557.150', 'end': '6565.239', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: which ones are which ones are showing up on, you know. Are they the same questions? Are they different? What I've heard from students is when they're using Becker."}, {'start': '6565.550', 'end': '6571.770', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: that the questions seem to be iterations of each other instead of unique questions.'}, {'start': '6572.010', 'end': '6578.540', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And again I would talk to, I'm sure you you're on so saw me. You're on accounting society or vap."}, {'start': '6579.000', 'end': '6579.930', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Accounting, society.'}, {'start': '6579.930', 'end': '6587.000', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right. So I'm sure you have students that are right. Now. You have friends of yours that are taking or are studying for the cpa, exam right now. Correct."}, {'start': '6587.000', 'end': '6587.730', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yes.'}, {'start': '6587.890', 'end': '6603.030', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I would talk to them about what they're if they've taken the exam you'd ever want to ask a student what was the question you got because that violates the aicpa rules. But what you do want to ask them is like, Okay, did you feel that Becker adequately prepared you?"}, {'start': '6603.350', 'end': '6606.400', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And that's really the more that's really the bigger issue."}, {'start': '6606.780', 'end': '6607.360', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Got it.'}, {'start': '6607.720', 'end': '6608.999', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Okay, thank you.'}, {'start': '6609.000', 'end': '6609.630', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Sure.'}, {'start': '6612.860', 'end': '6613.750', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Michael.'}, {'start': '6615.505', 'end': '6622.010', 'text': 'Michael Chu: Just wanna thank you again for just devoting your time and to all of us and helping us.'}, {'start': '6622.010', 'end': '6626.000', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No worries, man. Get a get a job and pass the exam.'}, {'start': '6626.870', 'end': '6652.559', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's why that's why I want you guys to do is like, hey, man, just it's it's a rough economy right now. Right? So if you have a job, be very grateful for it. Do not get fired right hopefully. You're working an auditor in tax. Right? Get your experience. Do great work when you're out there at those firms. Get your Cpa license and then go from there. Just the worst thing that can happen"}, {'start': '6652.760', 'end': '6660.964', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: is that you show up to meet the firms, and if I know you, I'm probably gonna bust your chops about not passing the Cpa. Exam."}, {'start': '6661.670', 'end': '6670.869', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So, and it's and it's hard, because if you're working at Ernst and Young, and you're working 70 to 75\xa0HA week. You're absolutely exhausted."}, {'start': '6670.980', 'end': '6676.890', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: which is really why you want to be like getting the exam out of the way'}, {'start': '6677.090', 'end': '6683.499', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: as quickly as possible, and trust me, you'll you'll feel a lot better once it's done."}, {'start': '6686.765', 'end': '6689.949', 'text': 'Michael Chu: I actually like had a question about like kind of like my timeline.'}, {'start': '6691.045', 'end': '6691.860', 'text': 'Michael Chu: But'}, {'start': '6692.100', 'end': '6700.545', 'text': 'Michael Chu: part of the plan, the tentative planning right? I have right now is I can technically graduate next year.'}, {'start': '6700.990', 'end': '6703.440', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Do you have a job lined up.'}, {'start': '6704.460', 'end': '6706.760', 'text': 'Michael Chu: No future job lined up.'}, {'start': '6707.220', 'end': '6714.920', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Graduate delay, because it's gonna be easier for you to recruit while you are a student than it is."}, {'start': '6714.920', 'end': '6715.260', 'text': "Michael Chu: That's."}, {'start': '6715.260', 'end': '6720.090', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Be when you're because, like once, you once you like and and trust me on this"}, {'start': '6720.710', 'end': '6729.149', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: once you've graduated, it is very, very difficult to find work. Okay, it's gonna be a huge challenge."}, {'start': '6729.420', 'end': '6740.389', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And I've had conversations with students. It's like, Okay, you've graduated. What are some things you can do? One of those things you can do is pass the Cpa exam."}, {'start': '6741.221', 'end': '6745.639', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And that'll set you apart from other people. But it's like"}, {'start': '6746.350', 'end': '6757.139', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you want to. Basically, you want to be recruiting while you're in school like Mike. Are you involved at all with the Accounting society or Beta Alpha sign a leadership position."}, {'start': '6757.980', 'end': '6761.739', 'text': "Michael Chu: Yeah, I'm part of the Board and society."}, {'start': '6761.740', 'end': '6762.570', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay? Good.'}, {'start': '6762.840', 'end': '6769.740', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? So you want to try to leverage that basically into different types of opportunities.'}, {'start': '6770.200', 'end': '6775.549', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And have you had what kind of a part time or full time work have you had while you're in school or in high school?"}, {'start': '6776.600', 'end': '6779.879', 'text': "Michael Chu: I've done private tutoring. I've also done like"}, {'start': '6780.180', 'end': '6782.419', 'text': 'Michael Chu: tutoring at a like a math'}, {'start': '6782.730', 'end': '6795.450', 'text': 'Michael Chu: like math tutoring facility, and I also had, like a very short winter internship for both tax and audit this like very recently. But it was like really short. Yeah.'}, {'start': '6795.750', 'end': '6799.540', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You. Wanna I would stay in school until you have a job lined up.'}, {'start': '6800.440', 'end': '6803.675', 'text': 'Michael Chu: Yeah. So like the thing about that is'}, {'start': '6805.000', 'end': '6824.390', 'text': "Michael Chu: I can postpone it by maybe like one semester. I don't know if that'd be enough time. But a lot of firms like at least like the ones I'm interested in there. They always ask me like, when's your Cpa eligibility date. Because if it's like too early, like, if you graduate, then you're you're in. You're basically ineligible to get an internship. So."}, {'start': '6824.390', 'end': '6832.459', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So, Michael, that's why I would say that like so, for example, if you're going to be so, what? No, when would you normally be getting your bachelor's degree."}, {'start': '6833.761', 'end': '6836.350', 'text': 'Michael Chu: Exactly from one year from now.'}, {'start': '6836.350', 'end': '6848.639', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay. I would then say that you're gonna be graduating in December of 26. Right? And that way you could potentially apply for a winter internship in spring, 26,"}, {'start': '6849.050', 'end': '6852.399', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and then a summer internship for the summer of 2026.'}, {'start': '6853.960', 'end': '6859.829', 'text': "Michael Chu: Yeah, that's yeah. I also really agree with that. I think"}, {'start': '6860.480', 'end': '6868.916', 'text': "Michael Chu: I was talking to this one firm. And they're saying that potentially cause I I I've talked to them for many times around, like the recruiter and all that. So"}, {'start': '6869.720', 'end': '6887.029', 'text': 'Michael Chu: but I have not got a position with them. But they said that if you do decide to like, not delay your graduation and like just graduate like exactly one year from now then, you can go ahead and apply for the staff position.'}, {'start': '6887.400', 'end': '6891.410', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Whatever that firm is that's that's I don't. I don't trust Elmo."}, {'start': '6892.040', 'end': '6910.019', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: so I don't. I don't like I don't that that I would not. I don't. I don't agree with what they said. That's that's really really risky, and that's only one firm. There's many firm in the. There's many firm out in this. There's there's many different firms that are out there that does not sound. That's not solid advice usually. So hom."}, {'start': '6910.190', 'end': '6914.850', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I'm guessing he did an internship with? Did you do one with one of the final 4."}, {'start': '6915.980', 'end': '6920.129', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yeah. So I did a internship with ey, and then one with 4 business hours.'}, {'start': '6920.130', 'end': '6927.679', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So yeah, so so I'm did an internship with. Ey, I'm guessing. At the end of his internship they offered him a full time position"}, {'start': '6927.820', 'end': '6930.379', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: to start at a certain date and time.'}, {'start': '6930.520', 'end': '6945.050', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And so when you basically, the reason why the internships become so important while you're an undergraduate is basically at the end of the internship. Those firms are going to want to offer you a full time position."}, {'start': '6945.320', 'end': '6950.230', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And so if you've done the work, and you've done a great job, and if it's a good match."}, {'start': '6950.460', 'end': '6961.209', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: then you want to be working for them upon your graduation. So Soham is like totally chilling because he's done. The worst part of it is is basically getting that going."}, {'start': '6961.710', 'end': '6968.179', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: A firm telling you to graduate and then maybe apply for a staff role. Just sounds like'}, {'start': '6968.460', 'end': '6970.999', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: that sounds like really bad advice.'}, {'start': '6971.740', 'end': '6973.519', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's a potential."}, {'start': '6973.870', 'end': '6978.809', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If if potential, like all that says did, it sounds like they're just like leading you on, I would move on."}, {'start': '6980.624', 'end': '6983.770', 'text': 'Michael Chu: Cause, I think, like my strategy is kind of like'}, {'start': '6983.970', 'end': '7006.940', 'text': "Michael Chu: I, personally don't really want to work for a big 4. I want to go like a little bit like lower, like a mid tier, but still like sizable, just because, like, I know, like work like balance doesn't really exist. But I am still trying to like get into like a culture that somewhat supports a little bit more. So I'm like kind of looking into these different mid tiers. And or I guess, like, would you say, like, just get what you can get like? It really doesn't matter."}, {'start': '7006.940', 'end': '7024.789', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You want to go to an accounting firm where you are going to. It's gonna be a match for you personally, right? So you want to be choosing an accounting firm. That's gonna be where you're gonna where we're one you like the people that you work with, because, again, is accounting like the cat's pajamas. No"}, {'start': '7025.020', 'end': '7036.650', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: working in accounting can have its ups and downs. But you want to work with a firm where you like the people. It's about the people, and where the environment is such that you can really go through and thrive."}, {'start': '7036.930', 'end': '7042.629', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's really where you want to kind of be. That's the type of firm you would want to go to."}, {'start': '7043.070', 'end': '7049.750', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's you know. And again, you know, it can be final, like the final 4 is great."}, {'start': '7050.080', 'end': '7056.630', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but it's not, you know, if there's like rsm, like my students like when they go work at accounting firms."}, {'start': '7057.310', 'end': '7062.030', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: A lot of them are extremely happy at Bdo, rsm.'}, {'start': '7063.105', 'end': '7068.570', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: had a few from Forbis, from Fraser'}, {'start': '7069.230', 'end': '7074.759', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and again, it's Re Conrad. It's really gonna come down to you."}, {'start': '7075.140', 'end': '7082.799', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And you know, you know, it's really it's really gonna come down to like going into like that mid tier firm"}, {'start': '7083.060', 'end': '7095.729', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: getting your passing that Cpa. Exam as fast as you can getting your license. And then if you have a license and you're at the firm, then it's gonna really open up a lot of different career potentials for you."}, {'start': '7095.840', 'end': '7103.500', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But the advice you're getting, and I'm just gonna go back to that and say, Well, if you graduate, then maybe you can apply. No, that's that's that's not right."}, {'start': '7104.010', 'end': '7108.559', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That just sounds like they're leading you on. And I would call Bs on that."}, {'start': '7109.240', 'end': '7114.099', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I might actually know who the recruiter is. By the way. So I but that just sounds like really bad advice.'}, {'start': '7114.670', 'end': '7118.710', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And again, Michael, that's my opinion. I'm not saying it's the right one."}, {'start': '7118.850', 'end': '7122.520', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but that to me to sound. There sounds it sounds like it's something strange."}, {'start': '7123.080', 'end': '7126.310', 'text': 'Michael Chu: I really appreciate your brutally honest opinion, right?'}, {'start': '7126.490', 'end': '7135.749', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, well, that's fine here, I mean, I looked in. I mean, it's like, if if someone's saying like, Oh, like, everything's like daisies and roses, and we're gonna guarantee you an internship. It's like I wouldn't believe anything"}, {'start': '7137.040', 'end': '7139.990', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I mean, I really don't believe do not believe anything."}, {'start': '7140.860', 'end': '7144.449', 'text': 'Michael Chu: I should say I did interview with them like twice, and'}, {'start': '7144.580', 'end': '7149.050', 'text': "Michael Chu: 1st time. I didn't even get the second round. The second second time I did get the second round."}, {'start': '7150.660', 'end': '7153.699', 'text': 'Michael Chu: So like, I feel like my chances are like higher. But'}, {'start': '7153.830', 'end': '7157.050', 'text': 'Michael Chu: but yeah, like, definitely would take that into consideration. Now.'}, {'start': '7157.210', 'end': '7164.280', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Remember, too, if this is, you're also. Now just remember this, there are students from Usc."}, {'start': '7164.660', 'end': '7169.200', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Ucla and Berkeley who want that position to.'}, {'start': '7169.630', 'end': '7174.780', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and it is becoming extremely competitive. Right? So.'}, {'start': '7175.000', 'end': '7184.680', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And like, I'm not saying like, Look Fullerton is an amazing school for accounting, but it does not have the brand name of like a Usc Ucla or Berkeley."}, {'start': '7185.020', 'end': '7192.140', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Right? So if those students who cannot get jobs in consulting are coming down and they want to live in Irvine.'}, {'start': '7192.380', 'end': '7193.710', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's gonna be tough."}, {'start': '7194.430', 'end': '7209.320', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: makes it more competitive for you. And so that's really why, just keep your mind open to working at different firms. And again, like Rsm. When I was there in fall. But basically for fall meet the firms. The line for that firm was way longer than Kpmgs."}, {'start': '7211.230', 'end': '7212.700', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: which doesn't surprise me."}, {'start': '7214.640', 'end': '7215.390', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So.'}, {'start': '7216.200', 'end': '7236.549', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: okay, well, hold, if you have any other questions, or if you want to talk to me about specifically about like I know, you probably don't want to do it on this because I'm recording. And I'm gonna put it up on Youtube. But it's like, if you know, you're if you're going through, though, and you have, like, you know, if you want to talk more about the firm, or whatever feel free to reach out to me like during my office hours, you can find it on my faculty website."}, {'start': '7236.990', 'end': '7238.839', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So, Sabina, did you have another question.'}, {'start': '7240.630', 'end': '7248.690', 'text': 'Subina Adhikari: Oh, yeah, so I mean, it was just about that. You kind of just answered it, though. So the best ways to just get an internship, and then.'}, {'start': '7249.060', 'end': '7272.300', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you can. Right? I mean you. You just have to be recruiting, I mean, you want to be involved with the account like and look. Soham's not telling me, hey, Bennett, you gotta tell these people to run for the board positions on accounting society. Right? I'm not. I'm not going through and doing that. He's not paying me to promote the executive positions right? But being on being actively involved on an executive board of Bap"}, {'start': '7272.640', 'end': '7280.130', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: or the accounting society. You're gonna get more exposure to the different recruitments of the different accounting firms right?"}, {'start': '7280.410', 'end': '7290.459', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And it's also gonna be like, just in terms of like your networking and other things like that. I mean, that's really what it's. It's really what is like."}, {'start': '7292.030', 'end': '7298.349', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: yeah, those are just some of the really important things, but it's if you don't get an internship. It's not necessarily the end of the world."}, {'start': '7298.460', 'end': '7302.580', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: but it's just how so many of these different firms go through and recruit"}, {'start': '7302.970', 'end': '7309.110', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: like I've seen. To give you an example, the a big 4 firm"}, {'start': '7309.590', 'end': '7317.300', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: had an opening for an associate position, but they wanted the person to be able to speak fluent Korean.'}, {'start': '7317.790', 'end': '7319.010', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and'}, {'start': '7319.330', 'end': '7326.889', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: there was a and that was one time where it was like Nope. It wasn't an internship level. It was an open staff position."}, {'start': '7327.190', 'end': '7335.359', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And so for, like that open staff position, I you know that's something you could go through and apply for if you spoke Fluent Korean."}, {'start': '7335.630', 'end': '7341.669', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So again, it usually, though, most of the firms will have some sort of internship program'}, {'start': '7341.770', 'end': '7357.000', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: which is generally going to be the best way to go. But remember, there's also, like those different things which will call like freshman advantage, summer leadership programs, all those different types of things that you want to also try to kind of go through and utilize basically for recruitment."}, {'start': '7357.380', 'end': '7366.409', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So hum before you did your internship at ey did you join like there? Were you part of like a leadership conference? Or did you do anything like that before that.'}, {'start': '7367.420', 'end': '7372.330', 'text': "Soham Santosh: No, I didn't. Nothing like that. I was just on accounting society board. Let's it."}, {'start': '7372.330', 'end': '7374.520', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah. And that was probably a huge help.'}, {'start': '7374.520', 'end': '7375.120', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yeah.'}, {'start': '7375.120', 'end': '7378.690', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, so, Adrian, how are you?'}, {'start': '7379.650', 'end': '7384.090', 'text': "Adrian Bernardo: Hi, Professor, I'm good. Thanks. I know that your time is almost up, so I just wanted to."}, {'start': '7384.090', 'end': '7386.879', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: I can go longer. If you guys have questions, I can go longer.'}, {'start': '7386.880', 'end': '7404.339', 'text': "Adrian Bernardo: Okay, great, perfect. So I'm currently on track to graduate for December of 2026 I will have my 150 units by then, but I still have a a few accounting classes that I'll have to take to meet the requirements for the education."}, {'start': '7404.610', 'end': '7407.500', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Ibc is 46 bucks a unit as well as any other community. College.'}, {'start': '7407.500', 'end': '7412.229', 'text': "Adrian Bernardo: Well, that's the thing is, that's 1 of my questions as well is that since I'm an international student."}, {'start': '7414.110', 'end': '7415.679', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: and then, yeah, we.'}, {'start': '7415.680', 'end': '7417.445', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's a little bit more expensive."}, {'start': '7417.740', 'end': '7418.969', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: Yeah, definitely definitely.'}, {'start': '7418.970', 'end': '7421.490', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But I know I know we're cheaper, though, than Fullerton."}, {'start': '7422.050', 'end': '7426.390', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: Alright, I was just that. That was one of my questions actually is, if you would like'}, {'start': '7426.690', 'end': '7430.710', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: suggest to take classes at Ivc at a community.'}, {'start': '7430.710', 'end': '7431.240', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Follow up!'}, {'start': '7431.240', 'end': '7431.750', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: Right.'}, {'start': '7431.750', 'end': '7437.289', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The other. The other. The other challenge, though, is, though, as an international student, right so'}, {'start': '7437.580', 'end': '7440.989', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and it's like, I don't. I don't know what your employment status is, but."}, {'start': '7440.990', 'end': '7443.420', 'text': "Adrian Bernardo: I'm a citizen, so I can work in the States."}, {'start': '7443.790', 'end': '7445.350', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Oh, you still have a residency.'}, {'start': '7445.350', 'end': '7446.889', 'text': "Adrian Bernardo: I just don't have residency. Yeah."}, {'start': '7446.890', 'end': '7448.669', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Oh, okay. Do you have a job lined up.'}, {'start': '7448.670', 'end': '7449.479', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: I do. Yes.'}, {'start': '7449.480', 'end': '7451.090', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Oh, sweet man, that's awesome."}, {'start': '7451.647', 'end': '7467.190', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, I mean, I would like if you if you can somehow get I mean, like the Residency, I think, for Ivc. May be easier than it might, or other community colleges may be easier, but I do know that the if I just do a quick search here.'}, {'start': '7483.800', 'end': '7491.199', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So I think it's like 4 10 per unit. I'm pretty sure that that's probably going to be cheaper than"}, {'start': '7492.270', 'end': '7495.799', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: then. Probably I'm I'm pretty sure that's gonna be cheaper than Cal State. Fullerton."}, {'start': '7496.380', 'end': '7499.570', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: Yeah, no. It for sure is, yeah. Yeah.'}, {'start': '7501.430', 'end': '7504.710', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: But despite that, I was wondering as well, like.'}, {'start': '7505.190', 'end': '7512.790', 'text': "Adrian Bernardo: when I do graduate I will have 50 units. But to meet the education requirements for the Cpa. I think I'll still be"}, {'start': '7512.950', 'end': '7514.810', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: 2 accounting classes short.'}, {'start': '7515.230', 'end': '7524.059', 'text': "Adrian Bernardo: and I was wondering would, since I'm graduating in December of 2026. Should I still like, pursue those accounting units to have the 1 50? Or should I be okay?"}, {'start': '7524.060', 'end': '7538.520', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I mean, I would say just, I would say, Here's here's what I would say. I would kind of say that it depends on this right is that if they if they say all of a sudden that they're not going to do this meaning that they're going to basically junk it and basically say, Oh, no, we're going to keep the 1 50."}, {'start': '7538.900', 'end': '7550.480', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Then it's like, Okay, then you just do. If at that point I mean, it's in terms of taking classes at a community college. It's relatively easy to kind of go through and register for them."}, {'start': '7550.580', 'end': '7559.089', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So if you needed to take units and, by the way, if you're ever trying to get into an accounting class at Ivc, and there it's full."}, {'start': '7559.200', 'end': '7567.049', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: If you reach out to me, I will do whatever I can to help you get into that class like, for example, I know that my for my ethics course.'}, {'start': '7567.180', 'end': '7580.270', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: one of the classes has 2 students on the wait list, but the other one has some open sections or open open dates. So I would just tell you that, hey, man, if if those classes still low, and you want to get into the class. Just reach out to me.'}, {'start': '7581.015', 'end': '7585.639', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: But I would probably just kind of play the waiting game and'}, {'start': '7585.850', 'end': '7588.130', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: try to get California Residency. So'}, {'start': '7588.600', 'end': '7591.097', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and get that 46 bucks a unit.'}, {'start': '7591.410', 'end': '7594.619', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah, I'm working on that. Alright, thanks, Professor."}, {'start': '7594.620', 'end': '7596.840', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Hey? Congrats on the job on the position.'}, {'start': '7597.040', 'end': '7597.900', 'text': 'Adrian Bernardo: Appreciate it. Thank you.'}, {'start': '7597.900', 'end': '7598.440', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Sure.'}, {'start': '7599.710', 'end': '7601.980', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, what other questions?'}, {'start': '7606.520', 'end': '7608.330', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, hmm.'}, {'start': '7616.080', 'end': '7619.679', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: trying to see if there's anybody else who's taken."}, {'start': '7625.630', 'end': '7626.310', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay?'}, {'start': '7627.640', 'end': '7631.199', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And so again, Michael.'}, {'start': '7632.600', 'end': '7634.439', 'text': 'Michael Chu: Yeah, just had a'}, {'start': '7634.620', 'end': '7642.751', 'text': 'Michael Chu: questions pop up in my head. But if I my plan before was to graduate on time, but'}, {'start': '7643.880', 'end': '7652.193', 'text': "Michael Chu: After like a couple of weeks like these couple of weeks, I'm thinking it's a much smarter decision to postpone it to the December"}, {'start': '7652.660', 'end': '7654.920', 'text': 'Michael Chu: So with that in mind, and how that kind of like'}, {'start': '7655.080', 'end': '7664.629', 'text': "Michael Chu: affects my, how I'm gonna like start setting for the Cpa. You can start setting for it. Cause. When I graduate I I will have my 150"}, {'start': '7664.820', 'end': '7665.910', 'text': 'Michael Chu: and.'}, {'start': '7666.080', 'end': '7669.639', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: It might be. I mean you. Could. You could start studying for the exam right now.'}, {'start': '7669.640', 'end': '7671.450', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: 6 months right?'}, {'start': '7671.450', 'end': '7679.229', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No. But Michael like listen to me like, so if you wanted to, right, you could basically start studying for the Cpa exam today.'}, {'start': '7679.770', 'end': '7682.230', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: you could buy a review course for 2 grand'}, {'start': '7682.570', 'end': '7685.659', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and start studying for the Cpa review today.'}, {'start': '7685.810', 'end': '7690.370', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Or you could start using Cpa review to basically study for the exam today.'}, {'start': '7690.670', 'end': '7694.519', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: most students tend not to want to kind of go through and do that.'}, {'start': '7695.415', 'end': '7704.240', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Rather. What you may want to do is that I would maybe in that last semester you have before you graduate. If you're going to extend it out."}, {'start': '7704.530', 'end': '7711.809', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: take a lighter workload in terms of the classes like, don't take anything that's really heavy. Take some easier classes."}, {'start': '7712.000', 'end': '7717.649', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and then at the same time be preparing to go through into study for the Cpa. Exam.'}, {'start': '7718.234', 'end': '7726.299', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But what I will say, though, that your job search is absolutely critical. Like, make sure that you're basically going out"}, {'start': '7726.540', 'end': '7729.019', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and searching for positions.'}, {'start': '7729.280', 'end': '7731.780', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's really what your main goal should be. Right now."}, {'start': '7733.060', 'end': '7737.290', 'text': 'Michael Chu: What was, I guess, like I had a conception that'}, {'start': '7737.915', 'end': '7746.415', 'text': 'Michael Chu: if I were to ask that like just one of the exams that would help me get the internship or'}, {'start': '7747.620', 'end': '7750.720', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The only time that passing the exams will help you'}, {'start': '7750.860', 'end': '7755.370', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: is that if you did not recruit while you're in school and you've graduated."}, {'start': '7755.750', 'end': '7770.519', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: if you've graduated already, and you do not have a job at that point in time. Passing parts of the Cpa. Exam, in my opinion, will become more relevant. Because then you're showing your commitment to basically taking and passing the exam."}, {'start': '7771.000', 'end': '7778.889', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: passing the exam while you're in school, the the firms, by the way, like, ey like so so on like when someone goes to ey."}, {'start': '7779.250', 'end': '7791.230', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: do they care that he passes the Cpa. Exam. The answer is, no. What they care about is that? Well, are you? Do you have a 1 50 done, and are you because they don't want him going back to school?"}, {'start': '7791.580', 'end': '7808.860', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And are you gonna be able to work a lot of hours for us every single month. Right? That's what ey cares about now. The one time passing the exam does make a difference for the accounting firms is that you cannot become a manager."}, {'start': '7809.110', 'end': '7814.890', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: which is, after about 5 or 6 years at one of these firms until you're a licensed Cpa."}, {'start': '7815.160', 'end': '7820.300', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So it will literally prohibit your promotion to becoming a manager'}, {'start': '7820.530', 'end': '7823.279', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: if you delay passing that test.'}, {'start': '7823.780', 'end': '7828.459', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So that's when passing the exam becomes really really critical."}, {'start': '7828.740', 'end': '7839.609', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: But I think, though, for you is that you know. And again, I'm not telling you to go take a job on spirit airlines. But I would try to encourage you to basically find a job."}, {'start': '7840.265', 'end': '7854.100', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's something that interests you like in a retail type situation where you're interacting with more like a general public instead of doing just like tutoring. Maybe perhaps using that to try to help you like, you know, basically"}, {'start': '7854.753', 'end': '7863.860', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: get some more interesting things kind of on your resume. You don't have to do that. It's just something that I know that one of my students right now"}, {'start': '7864.110', 'end': '7874.060', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: she works at in and out. And that experience is amazing. Another amazing retail experience to have is if you've worked at the apple store."}, {'start': '7874.350', 'end': '7877.769', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: That's another amazing retail experience to have."}, {'start': '7878.000', 'end': '7889.540', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and that really should be on the resume. I mean, can you imagine, like you're sitting with someone because you've been dealing with iphones all day? You talk to a recruiter and say, Oh, let me see your phone, and I'll make this, you know, work like a little bit better."}, {'start': '7889.790', 'end': '7894.369', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So those are just kind of thoughts in terms of like, how do you?'}, {'start': '7894.848', 'end': '7900.069', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You know? How do you change things up in terms? If you're kind of like looking for like that next job."}, {'start': '7901.440', 'end': '7909.197', 'text': 'Michael Chu: Oh, would you say, like a good action plan would be like trying to find a a job like kind of like a retail job asap for kind of this summer ish'}, {'start': '7909.640', 'end': '7929.829', 'text': "Michael Chu: And then a little bit after the summer. When then, I start going into recruiting season. For I guess, I guess, potentially also winter, but I, I think, are probably looking for mainly next summer. Then, and then I can leverage that this summer's working retail experience onto that."}, {'start': '7932.660', 'end': '7935.474', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Absolutely. We're gonna have a visitor here just in a second."}, {'start': '7942.500', 'end': '7946.210', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: I always love getting zoom bombed by my cat, and my cat's almost here."}, {'start': '7947.160', 'end': '7953.469', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: It's making his appearance. He's he's not just kind of being a little bit shy, but we'll see if he decides to join. Come up and join in on the conversation. Yeah."}, {'start': '7954.900', 'end': '7956.109', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: all right.'}, {'start': '7956.340', 'end': '7957.210', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: There we go.'}, {'start': '7959.490', 'end': '7962.200', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: This is Ozzy. It's a kitten."}, {'start': '7963.370', 'end': '7965.349', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Let's see. Here, hold on."}, {'start': '7968.730', 'end': '7969.920', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: there you go, Ozzy.'}, {'start': '7971.130', 'end': '7975.159', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: There we go, all right. Exciting stuff.'}, {'start': '7977.170', 'end': '7981.110', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, it's always a good way to end a video is when you have a cat."}, {'start': '7982.450', 'end': '7984.760', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yes, alright.'}, {'start': '7984.890', 'end': '7992.149', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So any questions for myself or Ozzy Ozzy's actually heard me lecture in my house. That's how I go through and practice, for like my lectures"}, {'start': '7992.290', 'end': '8000.309', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: as I go through, and he's Ozzy's gonna take far pretty soon. He's debating on whether, though, to take Tcp or Isc."}, {'start': '8000.490', 'end': '8002.279', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: so we gotta work on that.'}, {'start': '8004.010', 'end': '8004.760', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yes.'}, {'start': '8005.160', 'end': '8006.559', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: So what are the questions?'}, {'start': '8012.180', 'end': '8013.580', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: More question.'}, {'start': '8024.120', 'end': '8025.870', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Michael, does that kind of make sense, though?'}, {'start': '8027.240', 'end': '8029.710', 'text': 'Michael Chu: Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, thank you so much.'}, {'start': '8031.420', 'end': '8036.200', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: And again, Michael, I will also in the video that are like in the'}, {'start': '8036.909', 'end': '8050.499', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: in the basically in the presentation, I will put in a link to those meetings I've had with different accounting firms. I think if you watch those videos, you'll really get a better understanding in terms of the recruiting process."}, {'start': '8051.080', 'end': '8059.650', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Just. And I wouldn't say that unless I've had students that have essentially taken those videos. And I basically utilize them for employment positions."}, {'start': '8060.290', 'end': '8065.330', 'text': "Michael Chu: That's like I do have a question just to bounce off of what you just said, but like"}, {'start': '8065.570', 'end': '8094.400', 'text': 'Michael Chu: you mentioned how, when you want to work when you decide of which firm to work for, you kind of want to see? Basically, can you get along with the people? Can you see yourself working with like 5, 10 years on the line. If if you decide to stay that long. But I mean, like my personal experience is just to go to speaking meetings and just see how those people interact and and talk to some of the representatives and'}, {'start': '8095.219', 'end': '8097.590', 'text': 'Michael Chu: but besides that.'}, {'start': '8098.322', 'end': '8124.680', 'text': "Michael Chu: especially like when you go to meet the firms. How can you find out on a deeper level and have a come up with more genuine questions to ask the firm, because, honestly, like all firms, are really all the same, like, the only I guess research you can do is like, yeah, like, what? Listening to those interviews, I'm going to their website kind of seeing their values that they put on there. I mean, honestly, like they're all kind of similar anyways. Right? There's like a."}, {'start': '8124.680', 'end': '8135.890', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So if you if you're seeing like really, you know, it's part of like being on the accounting society board and and like being involved in the accounting society and back, especially from like an earlier time."}, {'start': '8136.270', 'end': '8143.079', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Is that being able to then, like, okay, the people there, there's basically. So so how"}, {'start': '8143.350', 'end': '8146.829', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: is now? So I mean, you. Are you graduating in May?'}, {'start': '8147.180', 'end': '8148.310', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yes, yeah. I am.'}, {'start': '8148.310', 'end': '8149.020', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Yeah. So'}, {'start': '8149.250', 'end': '8162.619', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you already know somebody who's on who's going to be going to ey? Right? So what's kind of crazy about the recruitment process is that those individuals that have already been like accepted like so"}, {'start': '8163.000', 'end': '8169.950', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: when and basically and so on. Correct me if I'm wrong. But is Robert Guzman your recruiter at Ey."}, {'start': '8169.950', 'end': '8170.929', 'text': 'Soham Santosh: Yes, yeah, he is.'}, {'start': '8171.540', 'end': '8177.460', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: What Robert does is after what you're gonna notice is the next time after, at the end of meet the firms."}, {'start': '8177.750', 'end': '8181.330', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: What happens is is that after everybody leaves.'}, {'start': '8181.480', 'end': '8188.560', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: the recruiter is gonna basically gather up those people that they've kind of brought in to meet the firms or wherever else."}, {'start': '8188.790', 'end': '8194.420', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: and basically ask, Well, what did you think of Michael? Or what did you think of? You know this different person'}, {'start': '8194.799', 'end': '8204.540', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: when a firm is looking for somebody? They're not just asking the partner because the partner is really never going to deal with you as an associate."}, {'start': '8204.700', 'end': '8209.139', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: You're gonna rarely get interactions with a partner, especially at a larger firm."}, {'start': '8209.410', 'end': '8212.109', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: You may get some interactions with managers.'}, {'start': '8212.400', 'end': '8216.600', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Mainly it's gonna be senior associates and other staff. And so"}, {'start': '8216.809', 'end': '8222.220', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: when you're working on the accounting society, or when you're working in bap."}, {'start': '8222.450', 'end': '8229.550', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: how you're interacting with others is really important because that's basically what's gonna help you potentially get a job."}, {'start': '8229.860', 'end': '8235.699', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Because and I can tell you right now, like, if a student takes my class'}, {'start': '8235.920', 'end': '8245.709', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: and I see that they've been showing up to class every day, they're really trying to learn. They're, you know, putting in a really good effort. They're kind to others."}, {'start': '8246.238', 'end': '8254.369', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And I would actually, I will absolutely go to bat for those students like in terms of call. I've actually had conversations with recruiters"}, {'start': '8255.049', 'end': '8265.859', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: where I said, if you don't hire Jeffrey like you're an idiot. And they said, Really, Bennett, is that really what you just told me like you didn't hire my students so like, you're calling me an idiot like, really?"}, {'start': '8266.000', 'end': '8277.949', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: Is that what's happening now, it's it's 1 of those things, though, where you know it's gonna be a lot of just your own personal connections from, you know, being, you know, being around other students."}, {'start': '8278.080', 'end': '8294.390', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: So in a way, you're kind of like, you know, I'm not saying that. So hom is like, you know, taking notes, you know, about Michael right now. I don't think he is, because I think he has other things to do like study for far. But it's yeah. So. But it's really one of those things, though, where it's like"}, {'start': '8294.988', 'end': '8300.080', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: you, it's just there's me a lot of different factors, I mean, like, look use linkedin"}, {'start': '8300.616', 'end': '8314.880', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: really try to kind of get to know? You know, again, like the more people you're interacting with, either at the firm outside of the firm family friends, just there's a lot of untapped resources out there that you may not just be using."}, {'start': '8315.430', 'end': '8324.280', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: And just remember when they're when you're interviewing, it's not. The partner is not going to say, hire this person. It's really going to be a collective kind of assessment."}, {'start': '8327.870', 'end': '8330.849', 'text': 'Michael Chu: Thank you again, Professor Tchaikovsky. Really appreciate it.'}, {'start': '8330.850', 'end': '8331.570', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No worries.'}, {'start': '8332.879', 'end': '8337.170', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay, anything else.'}, {'start': '8339.629', 'end': '8340.459', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay.'}, {'start': '8340.969', 'end': '8347.850', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: alright. So, Soham, if you can hang out for a second but I want to thank everybody else here for being here today.'}, {'start': '8348.680', 'end': '8353.859', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Awesome to have you guys here. And I will be providing'}, {'start': '8354.000', 'end': '8358.960', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: basically the presentation I went through and went over'}, {'start': '8359.655', 'end': '8366.360', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: to all of you. So you guys have like access to it. If you go through and look at'}, {'start': '8366.860', 'end': '8372.020', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: my whatchama, call it, if you if you go through. And'}, {'start': '8372.692', 'end': '8380.098', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: if you want to contact me, you can always contact me through the Ivc website, there's basically a link to like my Zoom,"}, {'start': '8380.549', 'end': '8386.520', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: basically to my zoom, so are ready ready. So did you have a question.'}, {'start': '8387.090', 'end': '8393.590', 'text': "Ruini Li: Hi, Professor, sorry I have one more question. I'm a current student"}, {'start': '8394.100', 'end': '8407.659', 'text': 'Ruini Li: also. Also a big member. So question, I know you mentioned 20 units for our accounting, and also for the business.'}, {'start': '8407.760', 'end': '8411.959', 'text': 'Ruini Li: so are there any gray requirement for that.'}, {'start': '8411.960', 'end': '8418.998', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: No, you just have to make sure you pass them as long as you have like it. As long as the units appear on the Transcript. The grades are well for the Board of Accountancy.'}, {'start': '8419.320', 'end': '8420.980', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: The grades are irrelevant.'}, {'start': '8421.340', 'end': '8431.769', 'text': 'Ruini Li: I see is there comparison like from other people? All get A or B, and then you got lowers.'}, {'start': '8431.770', 'end': '8452.839', 'text': "Bennet Tchaikovsky: No, doesn't matter, based on the units, but the only the grades, the only thing the grades would really matter to would possibly be to a recruiter like if they say, Oh, you have to maintain a certain Gpa. But generally that I haven't really found that really, ever to be the case. So it's kind of like."}, {'start': '8453.770', 'end': '8456.780', 'text': 'Ruini Li: Yeah, thank you so much for answering your question.'}, {'start': '8458.280', 'end': '8459.010', 'text': 'Bennet Tchaikovsky: Okay.'}]