Instructions for taking a CPE exam on FUNCPE

Instructions

for Taking a CPE Course

Our courses have been designed to be easy to take and completely menu driven. You most likely won't need these detailed instructions!

To print these instructions, click on File, Print in the upper left hand corner of your screen.

Step 1 - Register

> Click on Purchase a Course (top right corner of our home page and most other pages)
> Select your first course by clicking on the "Click Here to Enroll" link
> Enter your user name and password
> Click "submit"

NEW USERS:
After you click on Purchase a Course and select your first course:

> Enter a user name and password, then
> Click on the checkbox for "Create a New User ID"
> Click on the "Next" button
> Enter your name/address/license information
> Click on the "Submit" button

Proceed with registration as follows

> You will see our Course Catalog page
> Click "enroll" for the course(s) you want to take
> Click "checkout now" when you have selected your course(s)
> Enter your credit card information (We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover for online payments.) No credit card information required to take the free course.
> You will receive an emailed receipt confirming your purchase and including your login information

Note: we also accept registration by phone, fax or mail. Company Purchase Orders are also accepted.

Step 2 - Log in

After completing your checkout, you will see a confirmation page containing a link:

Click here to Login

Once you login, you will see a list of courses you are enrolled in.

Click on Login next to the course you wish to take

At any time you can login by clicking on the Login to Course System from our home page, in the top right hand corner of the screen. When you login, you can view the courses you have enrolled.

Step 3 - Take the course

The course is completely menu driven and will contain information about:

> Course overview
> How to print out the exam (optional)
> How to obtain course materials
> How to take the online exam (s)

Courses and exams may be stopped and re-started as many times as you wish, with no loss of data. When you are taking an exam, simply advance to the next page of the exam to save your answers.

If the course is "interactive" there will be a Review Questions exam that must be taken prior to starting the Final Exam. You do not have to pass the Review Questions exam, you need only attempt the exam and submit it, in order to progress to the Final Exam.

You must answer 70% of the questions correctly on the Final Exam in order to pass.

Step 4 - Submit your exam

At the end of the exam, click on Submit exam
The system asks "Are you sure?"
Click on "yes"
Your grade will be displayed instantly on screen
If you submitted a Review Questions exam, you do not need to achieve a passing score to advance to the Final Exam.
If you passed the final exam, you will receive your certificate of completion by email within minutes
If you did not pass the final exam, you can take the exam again--just contact us to reset the exam
You can re-take the final exam as many times as needed in order to pass (there is no charge to re-take an exam)

If you don't receive your Certificate of Completion promptly, please email us--usually this indicates the email address was mis-typed, your mailbox is full or a spam filter has filtered out the email (check your spam or junk mail folder if you have one).

Supplemental Information

How to obtain your course materials

The online course materials will have detailed instructions on how to obtain the appropriate study materials for the course, including book edition information, links to amazon.com, links to the IRS publications, etc.

You can also access the course materials information at any time by clicking on the course title on the CPE Course Listing Page.

Tax and Accounting Courses
Obtain the free reading material by clicking on the publication name (in the Course Materials column on the Course Listing page). You will need Adobe Acrobat to be able to print the materials out.

Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader FREE! (www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html)

You can also view the IRS tax booklets online at the IRS web site (http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html)

Book Courses
If the course is in the book series, you can order the book from www.amazon.com. To save money, consider looking at Amazon's used books (we have seen some of our selections available for as little as $1.00). Alternatively, feel free to borrow the book from a friend or the library, or purchase it from a local bookstore.

How to print out course reading materials for courses using online materials (optional)

After you open the IRS, GAO or SEC reference material in your browser (you must open the material in Adobe Acrobat to print the materials), print out course reading materials by clicking on the printer icon on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar.

(If you use File, Print from the top browser menu, you will just print the first page).