COMM 2010

Reading all of the reviews from 2017, I was scared to take this course. However, it was WAY better than I imagined. The workload was really easy to keep up with as long as you stayed on top of it, and it wasn't very hard to learn on your own. The exam preps helped with showing what types of questions were on the exams, so as long as you understood all of those, you would do just fine. I didn't have much contact with Professor Martin but I've heard good things about him and he seemed nice in his weekly emails.

Definitely agree with the more recent reviews. This class is not nearly as bad as the Fall 2018 reviews make it seem. I’m in the engineering school and took this for the business minor and was able to earn an A. Definitely read the textbook and take good notes. He has made the exams open note, so I would recommend taking your notes on the computer so you can easily control F to find what you need to answer a question on the exam quickly. I learned a lot in this class and actually thought it was kind of interesting but quite repetitive. Make note of the special cases/examples used to make a point because they will be on the exams. Good luck!

I recommend this class for anyone interested in learning about financial statements or more about business operations in general. I’m not precomm, but as an econ major I decided to take this class anyway because it is definitely useful information. It’s not a difficult class in my opinion as long as you’re willing to put in the time to study, read the textbook, and understand the material. I actually thought the content could be pretty interesting at some points. I took this class during covid so the online format was not a problem. I actually appreciated the flexibility of no set lecture times, but be careful with that: do NOT wait until the weekend to get the entire week’s reading/problems done if you can help it as it will just make your weekends suck. Overall, I did not think this class was that bad and I’m glad I took it. #tCFspring2021

I ended up with an A in this course and these are some of the things that worked for me. Actively read the chapter and pay close attention to the highlighted sections in the textbook. While reading, stop and think about how a certain principle not only affects certain accounting equations, but also how it can be applied to businesses in the real world. To study for the midterms, do every practice/homework question over and over again. If you even have a hint of doubt about a certain concept or principle within a question, do it again. The midterms in COMM 2010 are challenging and push beyond the level of difficulty of the practice/homework questions, but by understanding them to the fullest extent, it's not hard to get A's on the midterms. Also, I highly recommend taking the practice exams since they're more indicative of what the midterms will look like (not in terms of difficulty but in terms of format). Professor Martin WILL try to trick you on the midterms, so it's super important to read every question carefully and be very thorough. Fortunately, the midterms aren't a time crunch so if you work efficiently, you should have time to do certain questions over again. Also, Don't expect anything from Professor Martin. This class is a ton of work and we have to teach ourselves everything. However, I do recommend attending Professor Martin's weekly review sessions since we had the opportunity to ask him questions and complete more challenging questions. I didn't really get to know him but he genuinely seems like a nice guy. When doing practice problems, don't memorize how a certain transaction works in terms of the T-accounts. Try really hard to understand the transactions conceptually, and learning about auditing (outside of the class) helped me to do so. For the final, you need to Study your ass off. It's very challenging but a good grade is possible if you put a ton of effort into studying. At the end of the day, COMM 2010 took up a ton of my time and it wasn't an "easy A" by any means. But, this class definitely made me a better student and I definitely feel prepared for COMM 2020 and future accounting courses in McIntire.

I'm taking this class in Spring 2021, and he's been pretty nice so far. I haven't experienced any of his passive-aggressiveness. In fact, I'm actually surprised by these comments. I totally disagree that the TAs are barely more knowledgeable than you, though. I've been to OH, and they do actually know the material. All the piazza posts are answered by TAs pretty thoroughly and accurately.

I will say though, this class takes way too much time out of your week to have a balanced schedule. 10-15+ hours for me. I also agree with everyone else that if you plan to take this course, clear out your schedule and make sure you're taking easy classes. Exams are also HARD, somewhat on par with the homework and practice questions (but sometimes they're more complicated). I think people aren't complaining this year to him as much because it's open-note (due to the pandemic) and there are probably a lot more people cheating.

It makes me wonder how Fa18 ended up with so many As given that everyone here is complaining about how difficult the exams were. Did he curve after all, or did only the people with the Bs and Cs review? I really hope it was the former, but I doubt it since he says he strictly doesn't curve.

Roger is the best professor I've ever had!! Some of my friends recommended the class to me and said it was going to be one of the most fun classes I'll ever take at UVA. The exams were really easy as long as you study an hour a week. It's a low stress class and I would highly recommend taking it for a GPA boost!

Don’t be afraid to take this class; it’s really not that bad. The workload each week is manageable. You are only required to read one chapter per week, and there are practice and homework problems that accompany each chapter. Definitely take thorough notes as you read. Typically, I spread the work out over two to three days. It should not be that overwhelming unless you wait until Sunday when it’s due to complete all of it. Piazza is a great resource if you have questions. I thought the TAs responded pretty quickly – usually within a couple hours of a question being posted. In terms of preparing for exams, TAKE THE PRACTICE EXAMS! They are a great gauge of your preparation for each exam. I thought the exam questions were reasonable – nothing too crazy. This semester, there were three midterms and a final that combined for 75% percent of your grade. Yes, there’s not a lot of interaction with Professor Martin, but I did not find this inhibited my learning. By now, we’re all used to learning online anyways. Definitely ended up liking this class way more than I originally thought!

I really didn't think this class was too bad. What worked well for me was to take notes online from the textbook and then copy and past pictures from the text into your notes because the text has a lot of really good graphics. If you take solid notes for each chapter, the homework and practice problems shouldn't be too hard. The work each week is the same thing: Read the chapter (60 min if you take good notes and read thoroughly), do the practice questions (45 min), and do the homework (30 min). Those times vary depending on your strategy. If you take good notes on the reading and work to understand the material for each chapter each week, you should be fine. I got an A in the class and didn't feel like it was a huge grind. One thing that helped me was that I thought the material was interesting but some might disagree.

I personally didn't take this course, but my girlfriend did. I can tell you this...this class is completely online, Roger doesn't really teach anything, you might as well just learn the entire course material from textbook, this class blows. On a scale of 1-10 this class is ridiculous. If you take this class you might as well just not take it.
Here's how terrible this class was. My girlfriend, not I, my girlfriend took this class 2 years ago, and I'm sitting here in 2020 writing a review about the trauma and negativity this class has spread in the life of literally everyone near and dear to my heart.

This class wasn't the most enjoyable course for many reasons, but in my opinion the professor made this course even less enjoyable. He's not very responsive to student's questions, and can keep a very cold front. The class uses Piazza for students to ask questions, but many times I found that students' questions weren't answered until many hours later, which defeats the purpose of using Piazza in my opinion. He even sent an email to me when I did well on one of the exams saying I should answer people's questions on Piazza since it would be good practice for me.. felt weird to me that he was asking me to basically do a part of his job simply as a student.

Besides the professor aspect of this course, it was pretty stressful since your grade relies heavily on exams with not much room for error. I was expecting there to be a curve in this class after hearing all the horror stories, but we ended up not having a curve (which I guess was due to students doing well, but it was later found out that many got caught for cheating which of course would've bumped up the class average to look better than it actually was, so I feel that a curve should have been considered).
#tCF2020