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 genuinely have never had a more unprofessional professor in my life. She calls on people at random in class and insults them if they don’t know the answer. I think I would rather drag my genitals on 4 miles of broken glass before I’d take another class with her. She goes too quickly through slides, has no tolerance or empathy for students and has no place at ucla. Her unprofessionalism should be investigated by the university. I think she sweetens her coffee with the tears of students. She teaches this intro level course like students all have prior knowledge of the subject likely because she only taught upper divs before this class. I kid you not when I knew the answer to one of her questions but the person next to me did not, she said “at least you’re sitting next to someone smart” in front of the whole class. Next level unprofessionalism, her hatred towards students has no place at UCLA. It feels like every class she’s playing a mental game of trying to get in her students heads and make them feel bad about themselves.
Spring 2025 - I genuinely have never had a more unprofessional professor in my life. She calls on people at random in class and insults them if they don’t know the answer. I think I would rather drag my genitals on 4 miles of broken glass before I’d take another class with her. She goes too quickly through slides, has no tolerance or empathy for students and has no place at ucla. Her unprofessionalism should be investigated by the university. I think she sweetens her coffee with the tears of students. She teaches this intro level course like students all have prior knowledge of the subject likely because she only taught upper divs before this class. I kid you not when I knew the answer to one of her questions but the person next to me did not, she said “at least you’re sitting next to someone smart” in front of the whole class. Next level unprofessionalism, her hatred towards students has no place at UCLA. It feels like every class she’s playing a mental game of trying to get in her students heads and make them feel bad about themselves.
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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 - Very engaging lecturer and can clearly teach the material well. However, she does not post lecture recordings nor record lecture notes, so you kinda have to attend the lectures and/or read the textbook. Exams are very straightforward - as long as you do the suggested textbook problems you’ll be fine. Would definitely take again with Gardner.
Fall 2025 - Very engaging lecturer and can clearly teach the material well. However, she does not post lecture recordings nor record lecture notes, so you kinda have to attend the lectures and/or read the textbook. Exams are very straightforward - as long as you do the suggested textbook problems you’ll be fine. Would definitely take again with Gardner.
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