CPA Exam Lab
Section 2: 15–25%R6

Debtor-Creditor Relationships and Secured Transactions

Exam Insight

UCC Article 9 priority and the PMSI super-priority rules are among the most testable mechanical topics on REG. Suretyship rights and defenses round out a unit where small details (attachment vs. perfection, the 20-day grace) decide the answer.

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What AICPA Wants You to Know

  • 1Distinguish a surety from a guarantor and list the surety's rights
  • 2State the surety's defenses and which ones are unavailable
  • 3Apply the three requirements for attachment of a security interest
  • 4Apply the methods of perfection and the general first-to-file-or-perfect priority rule
  • 5Apply the PMSI super-priority rules for consumer goods, inventory, and equipment
  • 6Describe creditor remedies on default and the rules on liens and fraudulent conveyances