About Us

Before I begin, let me assure you that this website is not "About Us." This website is about helping you to pass the CPA Exam. That is our only goal — to help you get the 75 points you need to achieve success. Over the last three decades, we have helped thousands of accountants become CPAs and we want YOU to be the next. All of those candidates passed and so can you. We believe that completely. Our experience has shown that any candidate who invests sufficient time using good quality materials can pass the CPA Exam. You provide the time; we provide the materials.

If we provide assistance and you pass, then we are delighted. If you have any suggestions on how we can make this website more effective, please let us know. We are always looking for good ideas. Over the years, our best ideas have come from CPA candidates because they spend so much time thinking about adding points in order to pass the exam. We want this to be a community. We hope you will tell others about us; we hope you will provide us with ideas that we can share with others.

Okay, who are we? We are three individuals with over sixty years of experience in CPA Exam Review. We have had the great good fortune during that time of working with candidates from around the world. We believe that we know how to get candidates successfully through the CPA Exam and we want to share that knowledge with you.

And, we are willing to do it for FREE. We will include a few ads or some supplements to pay for this site but that is not our goal. Our goal is to provide high quality questions and answers so that you do not have to pay $2,000-$3,000 to prepare for the CPA Exam. No matter what we do in the future, the questions are ready for you now and free. Use them to start adding the points you need to get those passing scores. If they are helpful, tell your friends (or tell your enemies and maybe they will become your friends). If you see where we can provide more assistance, tell us. That seems fair to us.

Our leadership team:

Joe Hoyle has 27 years of experience as the owner and chief instructor in Richmond CPA Review and HoyleCPA Success. Joe is known throughout the world as one of the true experts in the field of CPA Exam preparation. He is also a co-author of Advanced Accounting, the number one selling textbook in the United States for this course. In 2007, Joe was named by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as the Virginia College Professor of the Year. In 2006, BusinessWeek selected Joe as one of 22 Favorite Undergraduate Business School Teachers in the entire United States. Joe is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Richmond where, in the spring of 2008, the seniors at the Robins School of Business named him “The Person I Would Choose If I Could Only Have One Professor.” Joe’s book on teaching in college is available (also for free) at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/~jhoyle/

Lynn Sheehan worked for 15 years as a regional manager and national marketing coordinator for BeckerConviser CPA Review. Her experience includes marketing the course and helping to train numerous instructors across the country to become effective presenters of CPA review materials. More recently, Lynn was executive vice-president for CareerBank.com.

Steve Chaplin has taught in CPA Review programs for approximately 20 years, working in both Richmond CPA Review and HoyleCPA Success. Steve is a former partner in the law firm of Chaplin Papa and Gonet. He has taught over the years in the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond as well as its School of Continuing Studies.

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