MasterCPEReviews of mastercpe.com

The courses are somewhat good, but they could be simplified to be a little les monotonous.

I look forward to giving you my rating. I just completed 62 hours of CPE on Master CPE. As a CPA of 30+ years, with numerous additional licenses and certifications (Certified Valuation Analysis, Registered Investment Adviser, licenses Investment Banker, hold an MBA, and several others) I’ve taken quite a few courses on-line, including several annual memberships on Master CPE. Most of the courses I just took, I’d rate as good to very good. Unfortunately, I also signed up for two courses that were so sub-quality that I will hesitate to purchase Master CPE again. Course M016-0333, Pocket MBA, was probably the most frustrating course I have ever signed up for. After reading the material, I attempted the final exam. The way the questions are phrased, and the answer options presented, made most of the questions extremely difficult to answer, even after going back into the material and re-reading the section it pertained to. The answer could still not be ascertained, and when I tried to research the answer on other sources, still, the answer options often did not coincide. There was very often no clear, correct answer option. After spending several hours reading and attempting he final exam, about 15 hours, I decided to surrender, throw away these hours, and start over on something else. I needed those 15 hours, and I was very, very upset! The exam was almost impossible. What was the author attempting, did he expect me to be an expert on his perspective like someone who just completed 2 years of study with him for those 15 hours? I was disgusted. I also took Financial Essentials for Not for Profit Managers (F018-0321) and was disappointed. The reading materials were very, very poorly organized, then the author scatters the same subjects throughout the text. And why not present a decent index instead of spending maybe 2 minutes developing it? I would rate my other courses all at 4 stars or better. I would rate the Pocket MBA is “unacceptable”, a negative star rating. I would rate the Financial Essentials for Not for Profit Managers as maybe 1 star. Because of these 2 courses, I will hesitant to ever purchase Master CPE ever again.

I thought there is audio teaching but for the class that I tried to take it is only pdf book provided. I am discouraged to continue because I don’t have time to read book .

Good experience.

It was ok. Mostly just reading a pdf, which is easy but underwhelming. I also feel the amount of time reading and understanding is worth more than the credits offered. I’ve attended 1 hr webinars where we did hardly anything and received a CPE unit. I’m always spending more time than 1 hour per unit on non Webinar classes.

Please make the final exams easier. I assume that your customers are mostly people who are too busy and exhausted from their daily full time jobs to do the CPE credits. In addition, majority of your courses are irrelevant to our actual accounting/finance practices. Why make it so hard for us to pass? Please add more practical material in intermediate to advanced Excel, Access and Power Point etc. instead of time-wasting stuff.

Good-I feel comfortable with Master CPE the way I can down load the course and the exam and work offline and then go back on line to take the final exam and get the certificate immediately. Bad-I catch a few mistakes in the income tax course where 2 answers are correct or i was sure the answer I chose was correct and it was mark as incorrect or the same mistake was not corrected from last year after I pointed it out in the course evaluation,

Not as user friendly as CPExpress. Somewhat long winded and discussions sometimes stray from the main topic