COMM 2020

Wilkie actually understands and will try to help you with the material. For the most part, just do the homework on time and go to class to do clicker questions. To prepare for the final, read the book and do problems from past exams. Doing problems from past exams is probably the best advice. He changed the class in Fall of 2012 to include i-Clicker questions (but your grade won't matter if your get the answers right or not, just if you went there to participate). He also added a book at the beginning where he teaches "case studies" about different firms and incidents to show managerial accounting concepts. These are pretty dumb and the questions on the first midterm about them are nit-picky. The book costs 54 dollars and everything included in it can be found online for free through UVa's library. Homeworks aren't graded harshly, again they're mostly about whether or not you tried it. Wilkie is a nice guy. he seems like he wants you to understand the material. He won't stop for questions, so just blurt them out; he always answers them.

The most boring class I've ever had the misfortune of taking. As nice of a person as he is, Wilkie is just bad at teaching. His lectures are pointless to attend, but you have to go anyway for clicker questions. Seriously, your best bet is to read the book thoroughly. Don't take this if you don't have to.

Doesn't require too much time. We had 3 midterms worth 15 percent each, a final worth 40, and then the final 15% was free as long as you got something like half the clicker and homework points. Wilkie is pretty engaging, but the subject matter is not intrinsically interesting. Worth taking if you want to broaden your knowledge of how a business works.

Review the homework problems before the midterm (which are all multiple choice) and you should be golden.

I loved Uncle Pat. He's such a fun dude hoo explains everything thoroughly to the class. He kinda fell off the wagon on putting homeworks up around mid-march so I'm not really sure how many homework points you needed for a 100%, but that was pretty chill because the homeworks weren't the most fun. By the syllabus I thought there would be a nice hefty curve, but I had a 91.2 and I got an A- so if there was a curve it was pretty measly. Still, I really liked him as an instructor, I thought his tests were fair and having three midterms means that none of them are really stressful and you feel prepared for the final.