<p>I am taking Accounting I right now and the professor already said that their are going to be few survivors in the class. She estimates 10 max out of a class of 35. She already told a couple of students to drop even before the 1st exam because they did not do the homework she assigned. Is this subject that hard? What can I do to make it easier?</p>
<p>I didn’t find it that hard. I don’t know how your class is structured, it is probably different than my 170 person lecture, but the concepts are the same.</p>
<p>If you use some sort of online learning software for homework, do the practice problems before exams. I’d say those helped me more than anything else. There’s nothing conceptually complex about basic accounting in my opinion. The math is easy, it’s just a matter of remembering what formulas and processes to use for different problems. Like when you learn about depreciation, you’ve just gotta know what the different types of depreciation are and how to calculate them. </p>
<p>tl;dr Pay attention in class, do the homework, do practice problems. Yeah, if those kids didn’t do the homework then it might be wise for them to drop it since they’re certainly not going to get any practice in if they don’t do it.</p>
<p>Your professor is bluffing</p>
<p>The professor is not bluffing if you attend a college with low admissioons standards or a party school where many students do little if any work until midterms. Accounting is not the kind of course where you can catch up mid way through if you haven’t done the work all along.</p>
<p>I found accounting 1 to be pretty easy; a lot easier than my math and science courses (Honors Calculus III, Meteorology and Oceanography). It does help to be a stickler for how things work.</p>
<p>Accounting is easy, but it’s not a course like math where if you understand the concepts, you don’t need to study. Understanding the minutiae is usually where tests can trip you up.</p>
<p>That said, I can’t think of a single person who dropped out of my accounting courses due to difficulty (I’m an accounting double major). I don’t think “low admissions standards” has anything to do with it - I went to a very well ranked school for accounting. What might be true is your prof is a hardass who views the intro course as a weedout.</p>
<p>At my school, Accounting I (A100) was an 8-week course and the most dropped at IU. Your entire course grade was based on 2 exams, and if you bombed one you dropped the class…so it was difficult based upon the way it was structured</p>
<p>I took Accounting I and II over the summer at community college, because I needed hours for CPA exam eligibility, not a degree. The class was about half community college students, and half kids from the state flagship who hadn’t passed the analogous classes at their home school with a high enough grade to stay in the major. Accounting is not inherently difficult, but it can be graded hard.</p>
<p>It’s one of those things where you either get it or you don’t. Therefore some people get frustrated and drop out. Others hang in there and improve.</p>
<p>All you need to know is: Debits on the Left, Credits on the Right… No, not really.</p>
<p>I took Accounting 1A last year which is Financial Accounting and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. It’s not a class you can slack off in though. You need to keep up with the readings and do ALL the homework. There’s a lot of repetition in the homework which helps you learn the concepts. My teacher also did bluff about how hard the course was going to be. My class had SI sessions that I regularly attended for the first couple weeks but then I realized that I didn’t need it so I stopped going. I ended up with an A+ in that class.</p>
<p>Not at all. </p>
<p>It’s just memorizing steps: it’s a memorization game!!</p>
<p>The biggest challenge behind memorizing things is keeping yourself awake from the dry material.</p>
<p>And my professor did the same thing way back in Accounting 1 with the “survival rate” thing. It’s just a trick to motivate students to not be the “failures” of the class.</p>
<p>I’m not a math or finance person at all. Never even had pre-calculus. But Accounting 101 wasn’t that big of a deal. I just kept up with the material and got an A. Of course, what may be easy at one college isn’t necessarily easy at another.</p>
<p>so the moral of the story is: do what you’re supposed to do (go to class and do homework) and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>a novel idea!</p>
<p>It depends on the person. There are two people in the world people who are good at accounting and become accountants and those who aren’t. I’m the second one, but that is mainly because I’m stupid.</p>
<p>I don’t think accounting is rocket science. My sister scored way below average on the state test in math, did horrible on the SAT math section, and she is an accounting major right now doing fine.</p>