COMM 2010

Honestly, Roger Martin sucks. His emails to students make him sound as if he thinks he is way above us...I emailed him once and he said something along the lines of "I don't know HOW you don't understand this" sorry professor, maybe if you were a better professor and had more accurate test questions that would HELP ME UNDDERSTAND THIS. The questions on the final/midterms do not represent what we have learned WHATSOEVER. they are easily 5x harder and ask for such specific stuff we never covered in the course. The exams are around 83% of our final grade. Excluding studying, that is 9 hours taking the exam. I spent at least 15 hours a week doing the homework, practice, and reading for like 8% of my grade. That is ridiculous. I wouldn't want anyone to take this course, unless the professor changes or the grading scale is improved dramatically.

Very difficult and unfair class in terms of grading and what is expected. Although, the professor has yet to apply the 'curve' so maybe not so bad. If not intending to do comm stay away from here.

This class is absolutely terrible. Do NOT take it unless you have too. Roger Martin makes this class so much harder than it needs to be - and he's admitted to it! The TA's justify his behavior by saying, 'This class separates the good students from the great students.' Unless you dad works on Wallstreet and you were born in an accounting firm.. don't put yourself through this pointless torture. The exams are 10% harder than any practice material or hw that you are given. I knew this class would be hard going in, but I never thought I had the possibility of getting a D in my life and yet here I am. Save yourself and your mental health the hassle.

Accounting is most certainly not the most fun or engaging course, but it is quite important and Professor Martin has done a good job of compiling the course information online in a way that makes it easy to digest. If you keep up to date with all of the work you will most likely do well in the course -- the professor doesn't really try to trick you at all on the exams.

Because the class is online you have a lot of liberty. I found the online aspect of the course to be very rewarding. Professor Martin always responded to your questions in a timely fashion. As long as you don't cram this class should not be too hard. For his tests, he used the same questions as the homework but with different numbers. The only thing I would say is that the class picks up right away, so there is almost an assumption that you have a predisposition to accounting.

This class was really boring. I have heard that managerial accounting is easier. It was only offered online in Spring 2018, and having to read all of the material was so confusing. What made it worse was that Professor Martin didn't want TAs (when they did sporadic online sessions) to teach us the material. We had to come prepared with specific examples and couldn't ask generally about an accounting principle. Personally, I would have loved to spend my tuition paying for someone to actually be there to teach it and take answers from the class, in a more traditional way. It probably even has an effect on people's grades because it certainly did on mine.

This class is now solely online and the course material is fine I guess, but it gets a little tricky. The main problem is the online testing if you have technical difficulties during your exam you're basically screwed. Martin will not give you any sort of help on that end, saying that it is your responsibility to prepare for the worst no matter what the issue might have been. This didn't affect me in the first 2 midterms but absolutely messed me up on the final. I lost an hour of the 3-hour exam due to difficulties and had to rush through the entire exam. The result was not pretty. You have to take this class as a Comm Pre-req but be wary that if you have even a little bit of technological issues, you are held accountable for it and will not get any support from Martin.

I personally recommend taking the online course. I've heard that they're switching all of financial accounting to online, so I guess pre-comm doesn't have a choice anymore. Anyways, the reason I liked it online was because of the flexibility. I didn't have class Mondays because of this online accounting class, so I was able to dedicate a solid amount of time to the course. I also think the it's easy to get a 100 on all the practice problems since you have unlimited tries. When I couldn't figure out what the answer was, I emailed Professor Martin and he quickly reached out to me an gave me a response. He is very reliable in terms of accounting help and is reachable. I went to the TA office hours and did the Zoom help and it was nice because there was plenty of opportunity to get help. The first test was tougher than I expected but I realized that it was pretty much all the practice and homework problems with different numbers. If you redo those problems again, you will do better on the exams. He also gives a very detailed study guide including what topics will be heavily covered on the final. Use this and make sure you know all the important material well. I got a B+ on the first test, A on the second test, and a B on the final and my grade got pulled down from an A to an A-. The only negative is that there is very little curving. I wasn't curved, but I know someone who was on a borderline of a B+ and A- who got curved up. The good thing with this class is you know what to expect on the tests and how you're graded. I've had friends in the in-person class who failed their second test because it was so hard. Our tests were more realistic in terms of expectations. l will say I was disappointed in how hard the final was and wish there was a bigger curve. Overall though, Professor Martin is a good person to take financial accounting online with.

Definitely take this class online if you can, while the online textbook is kind of annoying and clunky to use, the practice/hw problems and posted Multiple Choice review questions prepare you very well for the test. As long as you keep up with the work (Professor Martin posts "Hint" videos which basically walk you through every step of some problems), you'll be fine. I've heard from several friends that the in-class intro financial accounting section is a lot harder. I didn't use the online TA office hours via Zoom or the walk in hours, but they seemed accessible from the weekly email updates we got.

This class was definitely very difficult to get a good grade in so I recommend only taking it if really necessary. Although Professor Martin offers study guides and practice problems, you have to memorize how to do most of these practice problems to do well on the exams. The final was cumulative and pulled my grade down because it covered so much material and so many different types of problems.