MGMT 1A
Principles of Accounting
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open to freshmen. Introduction to financial accounting principles, including preparation and analysis of financial transactions and financial statements. Valuation and recording of asset-related transactions, including cash, receivables, marketable securities, inventories, and long-lived assets. Current liabilities. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2025 - I loved this class and Professor Berges did an excellent job making the material easy to understand. She offered plenty of practice opportunities and was always willing to clarify concepts. Her lectures were well organized, and I felt supported throughout the course. I would definitely recommend doing the homework assignments she gives since most of the test material is based on those concepts. She also offers plenty of extra credit throughout the quarter. This class was a great introduction to accounting and was honestly what made me want to continue learning more. I would definitely recommend this class to other students.
Spring 2025 - I loved this class and Professor Berges did an excellent job making the material easy to understand. She offered plenty of practice opportunities and was always willing to clarify concepts. Her lectures were well organized, and I felt supported throughout the course. I would definitely recommend doing the homework assignments she gives since most of the test material is based on those concepts. She also offers plenty of extra credit throughout the quarter. This class was a great introduction to accounting and was honestly what made me want to continue learning more. I would definitely recommend this class to other students.
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Spring 2025 - Professor Devitto is not a career professor, he actually came from being a real life accounting so he brings in real world relevant information that is actually useful to the business sphere. He doesnt just teach you what a journal entry is and how to do it, he teaches you why you need to journal entry and what this can tell you about certain companies. If you can get him as a teacher definitely do, he is amazing. Also teaches 1B so you could potentially have him again.
Spring 2025 - Professor Devitto is not a career professor, he actually came from being a real life accounting so he brings in real world relevant information that is actually useful to the business sphere. He doesnt just teach you what a journal entry is and how to do it, he teaches you why you need to journal entry and what this can tell you about certain companies. If you can get him as a teacher definitely do, he is amazing. Also teaches 1B so you could potentially have him again.
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Winter 2021 - This is one of the most incredible teachers I have ever had the privilege to learn from at UCLA. Her lectures are succinct and interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone to take this class because it will teach you so many valuable things about finance. Prof Gardner was kind and I found that when it came to reasonable requests, she happily granted them. By FAR the best teacher I have had at UCLA and she teaches the information incredibly well.
Winter 2021 - This is one of the most incredible teachers I have ever had the privilege to learn from at UCLA. Her lectures are succinct and interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone to take this class because it will teach you so many valuable things about finance. Prof Gardner was kind and I found that when it came to reasonable requests, she happily granted them. By FAR the best teacher I have had at UCLA and she teaches the information incredibly well.
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Fall 2025 - unless you are sure you want to do accounting or insist on continuing as a bus econ major, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. 1) Lectures - basically mandatory, no recorded lectures, no notes posted. if you want to imagine what a lecture with gardner is like, imagine being screamed at by a drill sergeant, making you memorize accounting terms no one knows the definition of. Her way of teaching can be engaging to some and frustrating for others, due to brute memorization nature of her teaching style. She went through 2 lectures screaming at us to memorize where debits and credits go, but never explaining what either of them meant. 2) Assignments - huge portion of your grade, graded by TA's with utmost accuracy that you would think they don't have a job or anything else to do. biggest tip: DO NOT slack on the first assignment, it's worth like 10 percent of your grade (it consists of her obsession with buffet). Assignment 2 takes 2 weeks of utter frustration and damn near had me giving up, but it's graded on completion (you can only pass the class if you do it with full accuracy, but it doesn't actually go in the gradebook as an assignment). EVERY assignment is on paper and submitted in-person. If you do not turn it in within the first 5 minutes of class, you are duducted 50% off the assignment. 3) Course Reader - 70 bucks, where she takes all of her notes, midterm and final are duplicates of the course readers. Forget about what she says in class; brute memorization of the course reader is enough to do well on her exams. I switched my major to econ, and she removed every morsel of passion I had for accounting.
Fall 2025 - unless you are sure you want to do accounting or insist on continuing as a bus econ major, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. 1) Lectures - basically mandatory, no recorded lectures, no notes posted. if you want to imagine what a lecture with gardner is like, imagine being screamed at by a drill sergeant, making you memorize accounting terms no one knows the definition of. Her way of teaching can be engaging to some and frustrating for others, due to brute memorization nature of her teaching style. She went through 2 lectures screaming at us to memorize where debits and credits go, but never explaining what either of them meant. 2) Assignments - huge portion of your grade, graded by TA's with utmost accuracy that you would think they don't have a job or anything else to do. biggest tip: DO NOT slack on the first assignment, it's worth like 10 percent of your grade (it consists of her obsession with buffet). Assignment 2 takes 2 weeks of utter frustration and damn near had me giving up, but it's graded on completion (you can only pass the class if you do it with full accuracy, but it doesn't actually go in the gradebook as an assignment). EVERY assignment is on paper and submitted in-person. If you do not turn it in within the first 5 minutes of class, you are duducted 50% off the assignment. 3) Course Reader - 70 bucks, where she takes all of her notes, midterm and final are duplicates of the course readers. Forget about what she says in class; brute memorization of the course reader is enough to do well on her exams. I switched my major to econ, and she removed every morsel of passion I had for accounting.
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