From Chartered Accountant to CPA: How Nike Passed the CPA Exams

In this episode of the CPA Exam Experience Podcast, you'll hear how Nike was able to go from being a Chartered Accountant in Nigeria, to becoming a CPA and CFP. She had a lot of experience in accounting from 13 years of accounting in Africa, but even that wasn't enough to guarantee passing the CPA exam first try. She tried it on her own and couldn't quite pass. You'll hear how switching her review course and starting to use SuperfastCPA completely changed her results. She went from scheduling two exams and failing both, to passing her exams. Nike also talks a lot about motivation and getting the CPA done. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Nike has some fantastic tips and a great story, you don't want to miss this episode. FULL EPISODE PAGE: Episode Timestamps 00:00 Nike Interview 03:17 Chartered Accountant in Africa 04:49 A Credit Control Manager Back in Nigeria 05:33 Scheduled Two Exams At the Same Time and Failed Both 07:17 Found SuperfastCPA, Studied the Unconventional Way and Passed 08:53 Take Aways from the Free Webinar That Led Nike to Pass REG 10:07 After Taking REG, Immediately Bought Everything Not Knowing If She Passed 10:38 Adapting Her Own Style with SuperfastCPA 11:20 Prepares Her Study Material Before Going to Bed 12:44 Made Sure That She Does Mini Session All Throughout the Rest of the Day 13:05 How Nike Would Plan Her Study Schedule 14:19 Using Your Phone to Study All Day 16:02 Found the Mini Quizzes to Be Very Helpful 17:44 Failed Audit Four Times But Stayed Positive 19:23 Every Retake for Audit Nike Would Re-Study Everything 20:21 Felt So Relieved Passing Audit and Passed FAR First Try 21:27 Felt Nervous Taking FAR But Felt Good After Taking It 22:35 The Knowledge As A Chartered Accountant Helped With FAR 23:06 Took BEC Last But Didn't Pass So Ended Up Taking TCP 24:35 TCP Felt Comfortable Since Already Passed FAR 25:13 The Reason Why Nike Took TCP Instead of BAR and ISC 27:06 Waited for TCP Score for Three Months and Celebrated After Finally Passing 28:31 Keep Your Loved Ones Involved to Make Your Study More Manageable 29:49 Had to Get Her Education Evaluated to be Eligible to Take the CPA Exams 31:57 Took Handwritten Notes for Almost Everything 34:08 Even Made Notebooks for Each Section 34:56 Nike's Flashcards Process 35:26 Two Weeks of Final Review 37:05 Tried to Do All of the Sims for Each Section and Learning from the Sims 38:46 Find A Community That Can Help You Through Your CPA Journey 39:58 Know That Pursuing the CPA is a Marathon and Not a Sprint 41:21 Getting Your CPA Will Boost Your Confidence 42:12 Took the CFP Exam After Becoming a CPA And Used the SuperfastCPA Strategies 43:56 Top Tips for People Still Going Through the CPA Exams Learn the SuperfastCPA Study Approach, Free You'll hear me mention the SuperfastCPA study process multiple times in this episode. What we teach our customers is how to have a 2-hour main session each day where you can get more done than someone studying 4-5 hours the "normal way". We cover this in our free "study trainings", which are 1-hour webinars where you'll learn exactly what to do when you sit down to study so that you can 1) move through new material faster, 2) understand and retain it better, and 3) spend less time in front of your review course WHILE getting better results. Register for a free session here: OR, just text PASSNOW to 44222 and we'll text you back a link to the training. This is one hour that will literally save you months of time and frustration from trying to figure this stuff out on your own, so register for a session today! Register for a free session here:

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This episode is 47:18 long.

This episode was published on Feb 25, 2026.

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