[steve777]

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[Anonymous]

Advanced Accounting. That class SUCKED. Also since I was taking it online and basically if I asked my professor/mentor any question the answer was “If I give you any additional information that would be unfair to the other students”, so I had only my textbook to work from.

[steve777]

What's that class like though?

[TheHoundThatRides]

@Lilla wow that's infuriating. What is the point of there being a teacher assigned to the class?

My toughest classes were Cost Accounting and Intermediate 2. After relearning these concepts for the CPA exam, I realized the material is not THAT hard. I just had a tough time because I took both classes at once and I didn't care for the instructors.

BEC - 78 (August 2015)
FAR - 80 (November 2015)
AUD - 73, 67. (Ok I gotta confess I was even more lazy this time around)
REG - August 27th, 2016

[steve777]

It's the worst when your only option is to take a crappy professor

[tuanxn]

I'm with Lilla, advanced accounting for HORRIBLE as an online class. All my homework was online and similar to what you would see on a FAR simulation. Homework would take 2-3 hours a week just because I would be doing full blown consolidations, cash flow statements, and foreign exchange transactions. I'm sure it shouldn't have taken that long, but the topics didn't come easily for me. The worst was when there was a typo on one of the answers and it took me an hour just to figure out the typo.

[AMorris95]

Intermediate Accounting II was pretty awful. It's a close call between that one and tax for my worst.

AUD 84 (Oct. 2015)
BEC 80 (Oct. 2015)
REG 74 (May 2016)
FAR TBD

[Anonymous]

cost accting.

[monikernc]

accounting information systems – my professor could not write anything that was comprehensible to me. i got an a- because he had to curve so his little buddies would make their c's. he never bothered to mention how much of that material would be seen on BEC, either. i figured that out on my own.

FAR 7/25/15 76!
AUD 10/30/15 93
BEC 2/27/16 82
REG 5/23/16 88!
Ninja Book and MCQ and the forum - all the way!!!
and a little thing i like to call, time and effort!
if you want things to change, you have to do something different

[Anonymous]

@steve777 It's a hodge-podge of all the crazy things that no one will ever use that don't fit in any other class….or at least that's what I told myself when I was taking it. haha. I'm not really sure how to explain it without just reciting a syllabus. It does have a lot of random things in it (derivatives, hedges, consolidations, foreign currency exchange, etc., as well as my only undergrad exposure to government and non-profit accounting) and several of them are either complex or bizarre concepts. Like government accounting – it's not that complex, but it's different from everything you've been taught for the last 4 years, so it can be hard to just quickly digest while you're in the middle of a college course. I've never dreamed of being the CFO of a Fortune 500 company nor planned on having a government job, so a lot of it seemed like things I'd never need after the course, so between that and the lame professor/mentor, it seemed like a waste of time – unable to learn and never going to use the information even if I did learn it. Ironically, I'm now the Controller for a non-profit that does use fund accounting, so guess it's good I did learn a bit about it. 🙂

More importantly, though, the topics in Advanced Accounting are pretty much all on the CPA exam, so it was a very good foundation for my CPA studies. When I studied these topics for the CPA exams, they were much easier for me, which probably means I picked up a couple things from that horrible course even though I thought all I managed to do was pass it. 🙂

@TheHoundThatRides I know right? I wasn't asking him to give me the answer to the homework or anything like that, just clarify if I was understanding a concept correctly (not even using the homework for an example), or would ask for feedback on work I got wrong (not asking for a changed grade, just feedback!) and he'd claim he couldn't because it would be unfair. Best excuse for laziness ever. 😛

[Chantel]

Intermediate 2 was the class that my teacher said would make you decide if you really wanted to be an accountant or not. I think about 10 people dropped out after the first test.

F - F ('12), 90 (Dec '15)
A - F ('12), 73 (Feb '16), ? (July '16)
R - 87 (May '16)
B -

[Anonymous]

Wow those sound like really tough classes, I'm impressed you all made it through them.

That reminds me, in these harder classes did you ever run into this question – if a business makes a purchase such as ink pens, paper, a chair, a copier, etc, from Staples, how do they record sales tax in the journal ? Does it get divided up between the items, does it go into a separate “sales tax” account in the journal, other ?

[RE2PECT]

Intermediate and Cost Acctg were hard for me because it was my first semester back in school in over 10 years so I didn't remember anything! Advanced was tough too because I took it this past summer along with auditing and it was so much information packed into a 6 week course. Had a great professor though and he did a good job working through all the consolidation and partnership problems. He basically said our textbook was garbage and just do everything his way and he was actually right lol.

FAR: 75 Roger & Ninja (notes/flashcards/audio/MCQ)
AUD: 73, 81
BEC: 71, retake 8/29
REG:

[Missy]

Cost accounting was the worst for me because I'd never worked in manufacturing and couldn't visualize how it was applied. Who knew several years later, it would be my strongest career strength.

Licensed Massachusetts Non Reporting CPA since 2012
Finance/Admin/HR Manager

[536FrenchmenStreet]

This is embarassing but what the hell. Accounting I, and it was all online so I basically was on my own. I spent nearly twenty years doing enterprise-fund budgets for local government as a management analyst, and the shift in perspective was maddening. It was like trying to learn to write with my left hand.

BEC: Fall 2016
AUD: Spring 2016
REG: Summer 2016
FAR: RETAKE

[win2bet]

cost accounting, was the one course that actually made people have to switch majors

REG 68,87
BEC 85
FAR 75
AUD 64,64, 86!

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