<p>Hello, I'm an incoming transfer for Econ/Accounting.</p>
<p>I took a one year break to go to China during CC, and it will be about 2-3 years since I last took econ and accounting classes.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what topics I should brush up on? Or what books are used by the professors (I've taken fin/man accounting and macro/micro econ)?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Although I haven’t really taken upper-division accounting courses, I have taken a good number of upper-division econ ones, so I’ll give this a shot.</p>
<p>The only upper-division accounting course I have taken is ECON 118 (Financial Accounting Analysis), the prerequisite course for many other accounting courses. I took it about two years after taking (introductory) financial accounting and did pretty well, probably because I think a lot of it (aside from ratios, key metrics, etc.) was really just accounting “in words.” I can’t say how much you’d need to review for the Intermediate Accounting series, though.</p>
<p>ECON 10A, which I imagine transfers would have to take (it used to be an upper-division course, and I’ve never heard of a CC teaching intermediate microeconomics), uses Hal Varian’s Intermediate Microeconomics. If you’re still iffy on basic derivatives and stuff, I’d get that ironed out before starting the course - you don’t want simple calculus problems obscuring your understanding of economic concepts that you’ll be using in a good number of econ classes. 10A and 100B (intermediate economics) are prerequisites for a lot of upper-division econ courses for good reason, and I’d say it gets most majors on an generally equal footing (in terms of their knowledge base) after they take the courses.</p>
<p>I know that at least one teacher uses Williamson’s Macroeconomics for ECON 101, Intermediate Macroeconomics. That’s not really anything you need to know because it builds on the kind of mathematical approach that you were first exposed to in ECON 10A and 100B.</p>
<p>Ah, thank you very much flushmaverick.</p>
<p>Looks like I’m pretty much set math-wise. I think I aced my Calculus 3 and Linear Algebra class this last week. So all I gotta do is brush up on the terms used in econ and accounting huh?</p>
<p>I just looked at my CC’s articulation agreement with UCSB and the major sheet for Econ/Accounting. I’ve done all but Economics 10A and Writing 109EC/SS/AC. I’m guessing that I won’t be able to take any of the upper-division courses until I’m done with those two? Only two courses the first quarter seems a bit… light.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>I wouldn’t even go so far as to say that reviewing econ terms is necessary for 10A. The class is pretty quantitatively oriented. The new terms that are introduced to you will be new to nearly everyone (or least that’s what I’d imagine).</p>
<p>If you’re bored, the guy who wrote the 10A/100B textbook made an outline of an older edition of it and posted it on his website:
<a href=“http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Books/im-outline.pdf[/url]”>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Books/im-outline.pdf</a></p>
<p>Brushing up is probably more important for Intermediate Accounting, because I would imagine that you’d be at a disadvantage if you didn’t remember how to do a lot of journal entries, for example. I’m not speaking from experience there, though. On the other hand, the ECON 118 textbook walks you through everything you need to know.</p>
<p>WRIT 109EC (or the other writing courses) can be taken after you declare the full major - I took it a couple quarters after taking ECON 100A (now 10A). </p>
<p>ECON 10A is a pre-major course now, so I don’t know how that really works with transfers, since I don’t think anyone can take a class like that at CCs. I guess I’m not clear on what your status would be… it seems like you’d be in the same spot as, say, an underclassman who finished all his pre-major courses except for 10A and would still have to declare the full major after finishing 10A.</p>
<p>And about the number of classes, I guess there is kind of a bottleneck in terms of what classes you can take toward the major around the time you’re finishing up the pre-major. You still need 180 quarter units to graduate, so it’s not like whatever other classes you take will be a waste of time.</p>
<p>Flush is right, if you’re good on math you don’t need to review econ but you should review accounting</p>
<p>Any suggestions as to what to take to fill up my schedule for Fall? Math minor? XD</p>
<p>Thanks, Again! Time to go to the basement and dig up my accounting textbook.</p>