Senior Alex Clark was featured by NJBiz in an article discussing the challenges of sitting for the CPA exam.
NJBiz
By Daria Meoli
Excerpt:
His friends enjoyed their summer after graduation vacationing or partying at a rental on the Jersey Shore.
Alex Clark spent his studying for the CPA exam.
“It was a lot of hard work that summer,” Clark said. “Thankfully, I had a signing bonus and the firm I was working for reimbursed the costs of (the CPA exam review course), so I could focus on studying.
“But, it’s certainly difficult to spend your last summer of freedom — the last time you’ll have three months off — taking a review course and studying in all my free time. A lot of my friends spent that summer traveling or at a beach house, which made it extra difficult to spend that extra time studying, but it was worth it in the long run.”
Today, Clark is a senior CPA at Marcum LLP’s Neptune office, but he still acutely recalls the rigors required to pass the exam five years ago.
