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The 'Teacher' does not do a good job in explaining things - definitions, examples, concepts. Things are only explained in one sentence usually or only given 1 example, and expects the 'student' to understand fully. This is supposed to be a beginners course yet it is very difficult for those without prior knowledge nor experience to understand since everything is only lightly grazed over.

Take the final exam at the end of the course for example - the student is taught & shown how Quickbooks will automate everything and run reports and organize the categories via its system. Even in the real case studies by the real bookkeepers in the videos they were using Quickbooks. Yet in the exam, the student is expected to do this manually all by themselves via a manual Excel sheet, to know the behind-the-scenes of the workings of Quickbooks already. This is for a beginner or those without accounting knowledge? The instructions on the exam and excel file provided was also extremely confusing - not only were the instructions unclear, but FYI even greyed out boxes almost always mean do NOT fill in yet here it is the complete opposite. How confusing! Perhaps another color or indicator would be utmost helpful!

Had I not already have some working experience and knowledge, I would have been so confused and have failed enormously on this exam. The layout and format of the courses is also confusing and not user-friendly. The plug-ins most of the time you do not know whether it's truly done and even cannot repeat nor go backwards because it's a plug-in. There's no progress bar either. There's a Next button as well as a Continue button AND a Mark as Completed button. Which button is the student supposed to press?? And turns out, they do not all mean the same thing either... So confusing! There is plenty of room for improvement for this class, and I hope it is done before more 'students' take this course so as not to waste anyone's time and money and energy.

If you're new to bookkeeping, this is a good course to start with, and I can see why the Intuit people would try to revolve it around a fictional TV show. But I do have some bones to pick with it.

For starters, despite all the talk about QuickBooks Online being the software used in the course, you don't actually get to use a simulation of it hands-on...in other words, the interactive segments are a bit shallow. Also, this would have been better presented with an actual accounting professional using a whiteboard: If you're not good at pencil and paper notes like I am, you're going to find some key concepts in the first two lessons go right over your head because you can't capture notes when you need them the most. Finally, the final project isn't rigorous enough: I blasted through it in a lot less time than the 1 hour suggested space.

This isn't a bad course, but if you want a firm grip on accounting basics, I would recommend one of the REAL accounting courses on the Coursera platform over this one.

I feel like I understood the concepts fairly well as it was explained in the courses. However, when I got to the case study and filling out the actual workbook for the assignment I instantly felt lost. I managed to pass it but I think for me personally, I would have benefitted from more exercises throughout the modules with spreadsheet filling in instead of click through training. Most of the click trainings I felt were in the quickbooks interface vs using (in my case) a google sheet to fill it in. Perhaps it is just me and getting obsessive about certain aspects, particularly on the labeling. I understand it needs a debit and credit to keep it in balance but what to label them had me frozen in place for a few minutes and had me stressed enough to skip the general journal portion and go straight into the general ledger & trial balance portion to try and figure it out. TL;DR: I think the course did a good job explaining the concepts but did a mid job on the practical application teaching.

I would have liked more examples to follow especially when having to enter data in to excel spreadsheets. It would have been helpful to have an explanation of wrong answers in quizzes and test with a link back to the pertinent material to review before trying the quiz or test again. There should be a way to save charts easily. It is also hard to find my progress and somehow I did an entire section of reading and exercises that were not marked completed so I had to go back and repeat material I had already completed and passed once. I do not like the cartoon teacher at all I would rather have actual humans presenting the material very straight forward with out the cartoons. I am an adult so I really do not need to be entertained I would rather just be taught. There should be more opportunities to practice within Quickbooks so that processes become familiar. Not enough time spent on General Ledger and how to enter things in properly. Nor on Trial Balance entering either.

I thought this course was very informative and made bookkeeping much more interesting than most content available online. My only complaints, however, are the fact that a lot of the learning occurs in the testing. Especially when I think I have a good grasp on the general ledger and trial balance, and I get my tables balanced the way I was taught throughout the course only for all my answers to be several thousand off. For the multiple choice answers, the test will explain why the answer is correct, but the answers where you put in your sums will only tell you what the number was supposed to be. The only way I could match the quiz' answer was to skew my numbers completely OPPOSITE what my notes from this course said. Of course since there is no actual instructor for this course, you just kind of have to guess for yourself, and that's not exactly comforting when you are imputing a company's money into a system.

A well made course aside from a few things...

1) The informative videos recorded "Intuit Professionals" who speak from their desk, room, etc are very low quality in many ways. The video quality is very low, the audio quality is ery tinny, the scripts of what they are saying sound like they didnt prepare what they were going to say ahead of time, and they are a bit confusing overall. Definitely expected that aspect to be better in all ways.

2) It is a little too basic. Very good for beginners, but I wish it had maybe 2 or 3 more "weeks" that went deeper after the basics.

3) Wish there was much more hands on materia, such as in week 4 where you get to download an excel file and do real practice work. That was greatly helpful.

This course was okay. Some terminology is different from terminology used in actual college level accounting courses like Financial and Managerial Accounting (of which I have had both), so some terminology was confusing. I thought the helpful hint of DEA/LEA was very beneficial, but more accurate to say DExA/CLEqA to distinguish between Expense and Equity. The presentation was rather juvenile and unprofessional. It should not be used to infer or instruct how to conduct oneself with clients. Downright annoying and inefficient use of training time but mostly useful in a general sense. I skipped the "discussions" altogether since it was not really interactive, and again just time consuming without a purpose.

This course was good, and I don't want to not acknowledge the great amount of work the staff brought into this. THis does help you learn the basics in a very entertaining manner; but, I needed so much more reading elsewhere. The lessons are very vague and don't go into depth like in another courses for example. Also, there are things that weren't lacked explainination and details which gave me a hard time in understanding the real life application of such principles. So in my opinion, the course is good, but you will need to also study other sources because if you want to learn seriously and less playfully, then you will need more detailed and straight to the point material somewhere else.

Absolutely loved the way these courses are set up and taught. Bianca and the guest experts were amazing! I remember reading these courses prepare you to take the bookkeeping exam (open book) through the National Association of Certified Bookkeepers - NACPB. I took the NACPB open-book practice test without using any notes and scored 70%. So yes, I believe these Intuit Academy Bookkeeping courses do prepare you well. But I don't know if things changed and Intuit Academy forgot to update, the NACPB actually have their own bookkeeping course that spans several months and they don't let you take their exam unless you take their course first.

Wish there was more support to answer questions I have. Numbers and accounting are not my forte, I'm doing the course as a business owner to help me to understand the numbers and where my business stands, how to set goals and work towards them. I've found the course information to be ok, but there's just so many questions I have that I'm not able to get answers to due to the lack of support. I can review all I want, but without someone to explain certain things I'm stuck on, I don't feel that it's helping me learn how to utilize this new skill effectively.

I really felt like the debits/credits were not explained thoroughly. I was not given enough information to be able to reason them out. Also, I wish at the end of the course you would have provided what the case study Excel workbook looked like when properly filled out. Overall, I felt like I learned a lot. I thought the assumptions were well explained and I appreciated the QBO walkthroughs.

As an educator, if only 47% of my students passed the cumulative test at the end, I would re-evaluate my lessons based on their results.

I think that if we were able to be more hands on rather than just watching someone else do work it woud be helpful. For example, if the quizes were similar to the final case study.

Also an answer sheet of the final case study would be helpful. That way I can see why my balance sheet is off and learn from my mistakes rather than just feeling like I did good enough to pass but don't truely understand that materal.

I also found that there was a lot of filler talk. "Oh Lou sweety honey" etc..

The course itself seems to cover a decent amount of material, but I found the format/design to be irritating. The videos with the over-the-top character were a distraction, and I didn't connect with that person at all. I suppose the concept is supposed to make the material feel more accessible, but for me, it made it feel less professional and silly. I did enjoy the videos of professional bookkeepers/accountants, but the sound quality was poor for many of them.

Its good with the definitions and the practice quizzes. However I feel this course needs a little more work on the math application of the course. Having more problem solving application when it comes to formula and working the accounting cycle. I know its bookkeeping but I feel the knowledge would be applicable more if the course had more problem solving examples. Especially towards the end where the preparation lacked in the exam questions and framework

I have no prior knowledge or background in bookkeeping so found it challenging at times to fully comprehend what was being taught. I definitely need more hands on experience in quickbooks. Not sure I feel prepared to work in quickbooks at this point. Basically what I got out of this course was an introduction to various bookkeeping terms. I felt there was a lot of wasted time with some of the short videos which were not really necessary.

I mistakenly enrolled in Tally bookkeeping for 2 days before realizing it was a India based program. Once enrolled in the QB course I realized the Tally direct teaching approach best fit my learning style. I'm offended distracted by the cartoonish video attempt to give a real world approach vs teaching terms, concepts and supporting the facts with an underline real world story. It would be good to have access to QB during this course.

It would be extremely helpful as a student for there to be an option in the tests to go back and study further and restart the test at a later time. I really needed help with the General ledger, balance sheet to income statement and couldn't find where I learned the equations. It took so long before I could find my notes and study further. It's important that I understand how to do this not just the right answer.

There was only one case study at the end. Does not give you real case studies to do along the way with an answer key that breaks down and explains everything. There is no means to ask questions. I will have to take another bookkeeping course because this one did not adequately teach me the concepts, even though I scored multiple 100s on quizzes.

This course does cover the basics, but there's not a lot of practical work involved. I wish there had been more exercises. Additionally, some of the experts were hard to follow and not great at explaining concepts. Finally, the "summary" sections weren't summaries of what was taught or an overview of key takeaways; they were just cartoons.

Actually 5 stars for academic content, but I didn't love the interface of Bianca. While I can se that having a "real world" case study, like Lou, and bookkeeper, Bianca, for him to interact with are very valuable, I felt like there was a lot of filler that was supposed to give Bianca more personality but just felt like a time wasted.

The experts could have been a little bit clearer than just showing examples or saying things like "if you have this company you can do things like this". I wish the experts would have actually explained what they were talking about instead of talking about their own clients. The cartoon was easier to understand than the experts.

I only gave this course 3 stars because it is said to be a basic course, which it is, but you need to have a fundamental understanding of accounting to understand the points being made. The topics covered she touched on so briefly that someone just starting would not really understand what to do and how to proceed.

The cartoon narration/sarcasm was not something preferred/professional. The real life "experts" where great, but could use some academic visuals to support. An option for more practice with topics that are new or practice with Quickbooks would have been helpful (optional only for those who want more practice).

Choppy videos, would be nice if they were grouped in better rather than 30 second videos that you then have to click on something to continue. breaks up flow. Errors in spelling in a few slides... laggy videos that restarted multiple times. Otherwise, content is decent and quizzes are good reflection of material.