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2026/08/22
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2026/10/01
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Free audio crash courses for certification, licensing and admissions exams. Every episode is one lesson you can finish on a commute, drawn from the free practice questions, flashcards and study guides at https://exampreprise.com. New episodes every day.
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CFA Level I Complete Prep Course — Lesson 29: Cash Flow Statements and Free Cash Flow
2026/10/01
This lesson breaks the cash flow statement into operations, investing, and financing, contrasts the direct and indirect methods, and drills the working-capital sign rules that Level One tests every year. It covers U.S. GAAP versus IFRS classification of interest and dividends, the FCFF and FCFE formulas including the after-tax interest add-back, cash flow quality red flags, and the cash balance cross-check tying all three statements together.
Lesson 29 of 81 in the CFA Level I Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CFA Level I Complete Prep Course — Lesson 28: Balance Sheets, Assets, Liabilities, and Equity
2026/10/01
Sarah Mitchell teaches the balance sheet as a point-in-time snapshot governed by Assets equal Liabilities plus Equity. The lesson covers current versus noncurrent classification under the one-year-or-operating-cycle rule, working capital, and the current, quick, debt-to-equity and book-value-per-share formulas. It walks through measurement bases, common-size analysis, equity components including treasury stock and AOCI, and the three investment classifications. Two worked scenarios test liquidity ratios and the identity check.
Lesson 28 of 81 in the CFA Level I Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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MATSEC AM Pure Mathematics Complete Prep Course — Lesson 12: Quadratics: completing the square and sketching
2026/10/01
Lesson twelve rewrites any quadratic as a times the bracket x plus p all squared plus q, so the turning point at negative p, q can be read without calculus. It covers factoring out the leading coefficient before halving the x coefficient, checking the vertex against x equals minus b over two a, and sketching from intercepts and vertex. Worked problems yield a minimum of five at x equals three and a maximum of nine at x equals two.
Lesson 12 of 158 in the MATSEC AM Pure Mathematics Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CPC Complete Prep Course — Lesson 12: HCPCS Level II Coding
2026/10/01
Sarah walks through HCPCS Level II, from the one letter plus four digit format spanning A0000 to V9999 to the letter ranges for ambulance, supplies, DME, drugs, and vision. She drills J code units and the round up rule, the four DME qualification criteria, CMN, ABN and DMEPOS terms, and ambulance levels with paired origin and destination modifiers. Two worked scenarios cover drug units and a scene to hospital transport.
Lesson 12 of 15 in the CPC Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 12: Confidentiality, HIPAA, and Social Media: Protecting Patient Information
2026/10/01
Sarah Mitchell breaks down HIPAA's minimum necessary standard and the need-to-know rule for the care team, then walks through the everyday violations that fail nurses on the exam, from elevator conversations to social media posts with no names. She covers privacy codes for callers, the four exceptions that permit disclosure, patients' rights to their own records, secure faxing and texting, and how to handle a colleague's breach, with two worked scenarios.
Lesson 12 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CFA Level I Complete Prep Course — Lesson 27: Income Statements, Revenue, Expense, and EPS
2026/10/01
Sarah Mitchell walks CFA Level I candidates through the multi-step income statement from revenue to net income, the five-step revenue recognition model under IFRS 15 and ASC 606, the three expense recognition patterns, the four margin formulas, and basic versus diluted EPS including the treasury stock and if-converted methods. She covers other comprehensive income, common-size analysis, nonrecurring items, and operating leverage, with two worked exam scenarios.
Lesson 27 of 81 in the CFA Level I Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CFA Level I Complete Prep Course — Lesson 26: FSA Framework and Information Quality
2026/09/30
Sarah Mitchell opens Unit Five by framing Financial Statement Analysis as eleven to fourteen percent of the 2026 CFA Level I exam, roughly twenty to twenty-five standalone questions. She walks through the six setup facts, the six-step FSA sequence and its traps, what each statement and filing proves, the limits of a clean audit opinion, information quality versus business quality, the common-size and growth formulas, accrual accounting, and the fundamental versus enhancing qualitative characteristics.
Lesson 26 of 81 in the CFA Level I Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CFA Level I Complete Prep Course — Lesson 25: Economics Case Lab
2026/09/30
This lesson turns Level I economics, six to nine percent of the one hundred eighty item exam, into a six step vignette workflow: locate the cycle, classify the shock, trace policy, link to firms, add the global channel, and verify currency math. It separates first order from secondary effects, names the six standard traps, drills two scenarios on restrictive policy and tariffs, and closes with four accounting anchors.
Lesson 25 of 81 in the CFA Level I Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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MATSEC AM Pure Mathematics Complete Prep Course — Lesson 11: Partial fractions with repeated, quadratic and improper forms
2026/09/30
Sarah extends partial fractions beyond distinct linear factors. A repeated linear factor squared needs two fractions with constant numerators, an irreducible quadratic needs A x plus B on top, and an improper fraction must be long divided first so a polynomial part joins the answer. Two worked problems drill the setup, substitution, and equating the highest power and the constant term, plus the traps that cost marks.
Lesson 11 of 158 in the MATSEC AM Pure Mathematics Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CPC Complete Prep Course — Lesson 11: Medicine Section & Anesthesia Coding
2026/09/30
Sarah Mitchell walks through the Medicine section from 90281 to 99607, covering vaccine product plus administration pairs, the age and counseling split between 90460 and 90471, and the infusion hierarchy that puts chemotherapy above therapeutic above hydration with only one initial code. She then teaches the anesthesia formula, anesthesia time boundaries, physical status modifiers P1 through P6, qualifying circumstances, and common cardiovascular codes.
Lesson 11 of 15 in the CPC Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 11: Advance Directives, Living Wills, Healthcare Proxies, DNR Orders, and End-of-Life Decisions
2026/09/30
Sarah Mitchell separates the living will, the durable power of attorney for healthcare, and the POLST, explains the Patient Self-Determination Act, and drills the rule that a DNR is a provider order while a living will alone does not stop a code. She covers why DNR never means do not treat, what governs when family disagrees with the patient's wishes, the nurse's role in organ donation, and the difference between hospice and palliative care.
Lesson 11 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CFA Level I Complete Prep Course — Lesson 24: Foreign Exchange, Capital Flows, and Arbitrage
2026/09/30
Sarah Mitchell teaches CFA Level One candidates to read foreign exchange quotes under the price per base convention, where dollars per euro at 1.1000 means one euro costs one dollar and ten cents. She covers direct versus indirect quotes, bid and ask sides, cross rates and triangular arbitrage, covered interest rate parity producing a 1.2233 forward, capital flows, exchange rate regimes, real exchange rates, Mundell-Fleming, and the J-curve.
Lesson 24 of 81 in the CFA Level I Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CFA Level I Complete Prep Course — Lesson 23: Geopolitics, Globalization, and Trade
2026/09/30
Sarah Mitchell walks CFA Level I candidates through globalization, comparative advantage, and geopolitical risk. She works the two-hour cloth versus four-hour wine example to show opportunity cost beats absolute advantage, contrasts tariff revenue with quota rents and voluntary export restraints, sequences the five stages of integration, explains why a current account deficit is financed by capital inflows, and separates the IMF from the World Bank.
Lesson 23 of 81 in the CFA Level I Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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CFA Level I Complete Prep Course — Lesson 22: Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, and Central Banks
2026/09/30
Sarah teaches the two levers of demand management. She covers fiscal stance judged by the cyclically adjusted budget balance, automatic stabilizers versus the three discretionary lags, the fiscal multiplier formula, and crowding out. She then walks through central bank tools, transmission channels, mandates, the real versus nominal rate distinction, quantitative easing, the liquidity trap, and the four-cell policy interaction matrix. Two exam scenarios follow.
Lesson 22 of 81 in the CFA Level I Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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MATSEC AM Pure Mathematics Complete Prep Course — Lesson 10: Partial fractions with distinct linear factors
2026/09/29
Sarah teaches the decomposition of proper algebraic fractions whose denominators are products of distinct linear factors. She sets up the identity with constants over each factor, clears fractions, and substitutes the values that make each bracket zero, deriving three halves and one half for two x plus one over x minus one times x plus one. She drills the cover-up shortcut, equating coefficients, the properness check, and the recombination check.
Lesson 10 of 158 in the MATSEC AM Pure Mathematics Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.
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