EY
Sep 19, 2019
The course is very easy to understand, and most importantly it is fun to learn accounting! I find this course covers basic yet comprehensive contents compared to other basic accounting online courses.
YR
Jun 13, 2022
It is a great course for beginers like me to start to learn about accounting. The concepts are easy to understand, and the examples are very helpful for understanding. I like the virtual students btw.
By imran
•Nov 11, 2015
Its nice
By VIDUSHI M
•Apr 5, 2019
great
By Amisha m
•Oct 29, 2024
good
By PONNAGANTI S R P C
•Jul 9, 2022
good
By 霍建
•Jul 14, 2019
nice
By Vijay K S
•Oct 26, 2022
I am not very excited about the course Introduction to Financial Accounting. Because there is no explanation of the
questions that I encounterd. In final exam few questions I feel needs an explanation but I was lost I didn't get calrifications. Few questions I guessede that's not not good to undersatns the bsic concepts. The questions were out of topics of the class. I feel that Pof. Brian Bushee didn't sincerely lectured this class. I compare this with the last class I took with Prof. Robert Sheelar of Yale University Introduction of Financial Markets. It was such a clarity in lectures and test that I didn't have much problems and I passed with disticntion. I was very much dissapointed. Vijay Sinha!
By Adya S
•Jul 4, 2022
The Introduction to Financial Accounting course was particularly challenging.
Professor Bushee did explain concepts however utilised terminology that only experienced accountants would understand. The virtual students were quite distracting due to their non-student charctersitics.
The quizzes and exams were very hard and required detailed analysis of notes and I had to try each quiz at least 5 times to pass.
I would reccomend this course only for people who have a basic understanding of financial accounting but if you are looking to start to learn financial accounting, its best to look somewhere else.
By michele b
•Dec 29, 2015
Although Professor Bushee is very good, the matter is not really entertaining, especially during the first two weeks of the course.
To actually learn and pass the exam it is not sufficient to watch the videos, some work should be done at home.
To improve the course I would suggest to introduce more homework with written solutions or to lengthen the parts of the videos where exercises and examples are shown. Also, in these parts, the theoretical concepts explained in the previous videos could be reminded more often.
By Tian L
•Jan 22, 2021
Too less homework. I didn't feel totally understand the course. What I did is practicing in the quizzes. But before the quizzes, I want to get 1 to 2 "traditional examples" to fully understand the formula, the accounting system, and the logic behind the calculation. Although there are some examples in the course videos, they are not hard enough compare to the quizzes' questions. Instead of learning in the quiz, I really prefer doing some similar practice before the quiz.
By Atli T
•Aug 27, 2023
Good: very capable professor who explains the topic easily and is aware of questions people might have who are new to the subject. Gives practical examples and goes through accounting of actual companies.
Bad: rating system on the exams is brutal. and I am pretty sure some of the answers are incorrect. Indirect method in the operating section of the cashflow statement could be explained better.
By Varun R
•Jan 25, 2021
Overall, this course gives a great overview of all the concepts necessary to understand the language of accounting. I appreciated how it dissected balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. However, I did feel that there could have been better preparation for the final exam. The quizzes and in-class exercises do not really reflect the types of questions on the final.
By Tracy
•Feb 19, 2016
Good course but the quizzes are multiple choice / multiple answer so each question is really like 5 questions. And, the related content for each quiz question is hard to track down once you've already gone through the video lessons.
There should be a tie back to the original content within the quiz grading so that a more narrow focus can be made for the missed questions.
By Morgan R
•Jan 28, 2018
Professor Bushee is very enaging, and tries very hard to make a rather dry topic interesting. The quizes feel purposefully tricky, which makes it hard to feel like your actually learning the material. Overall I feel like the course created more questions than it answered, and I feel like I now have the tools to learn the material, instead of feeling like I learned it.
By Diana A
•Jun 3, 2017
Good overview. I wouldn't call it complete intro. I have a good understanding of finance from 10 years of non-profit management experience, but I found that this course didn't explain basic terms to start and assumed that you know all the definitions. That said, I got a lot out of this course and now know what to look for moving forward.
By S Z
•Jul 7, 2020
Some of the concepts like dividend, retained earnings and additional paid-in capital are not clearly explained, so It's troublesome when I encountered questions related to those topics on the exam. This course is somewhat confusing, maybe because of its short length. But I still learned things from it.
By Michael D
•Aug 1, 2020
Although the professor was personable, I feel like the material was going by too quickly. It would be nice to have some kind of textbook. There should be a way to make sure that the student doesn't constantly refer to notes during the exam, but I guess nothing can be done about that.
By Rodrigo I G C
•Apr 24, 2020
As an Accounting and finance graduate, this was a basic course that I had to take for earning the specialization certificate. For me the most valuable part of the course was week 4, as it helped me remember the important ratios necessary to better evaluate my company.
By Christopher N
•Apr 20, 2017
It's a good basic course to know how accounting generally works. I'm not sure if it's because of the kind of topic this is but maybe the concepts could be presented in another way that is more engaging as it feels more like a passive learning experience.
By saranya r
•Dec 25, 2020
some of the questions and answers were same but was marked as incorrect inthe final test paper 2. the course itself is too boring but the professor has tried his max to make it interesting. Must be a better way to give general examples
By Joseph M
•Apr 3, 2020
There was so much information flying by so quickly it was hard to keep track. It was good information, but there wasn’t enough explanation for 99% of it before he moved on. And the virtual students made me feel uncomfortable.
By Asheem M
•Apr 12, 2017
Prof Bushee made the course interesting via the use of the virtual students and his quirky sense of humor. Accounting is a drab subject, and he did a good job of mixing examples and real world situations with the content.
By Jody
•Jul 19, 2020
Grading system quite hard. i found it too difficult to keep up with the grading system. i think it must be changed into single answer, eventhough there got several answer tickboxes. at least give 0.5 or 0.3 point
By Andressa O
•Sep 11, 2016
Excellent professor and material, however, it is my evaluation that more time was needed for the program to be explored thoroughly. I felt as if, most of the time, we were just running thru to meet the schedule.
By Luke G
•Aug 18, 2023
Great Course, explained concepts quite well considering how information heavy accounting can get. Amazing skill to have especially learning to run a business. Would reccomend.
By Darby S
•Jan 29, 2019
Good course! Financial accounting is hard. I have a bad memory and there are a lot of terms so it was very challenging but passable. Brian is a good professor.