Unlike most of the reviews on here, I did have a high school background in accounting. I'm not going to lie; people with an accounting backgrounding prior to taking this class will do better. It just takes a while for some people to understand debits and credits and the little nuances that accounting entails. Gardner's tests are very time intensive; however, the questions were fair and relatively easy to answer. Although I finished both the midterm and final with 15 minutes left to check my answers, I know people who did not finish both exams. Simply put, if you know that you struggle with time-intensive tests, then you will struggle on Gardner's tests.

I do have to agree with many of the reviews in that the homework assignments were useless. Although somewhat interesting, they were not helpful for the tests at all and simply felt like busy work. The homework was also graded quite harshly and I can imagine the average score around the low to mid 80's. Homework is 20% of your grade, so it is important that you do well if you want an A.

Gardner is one of the most engaging lecturers I have had at UCLA. She is absolutely a bundle of energy and repeats constantly what you need to know for the exams. She is also extremely knowledgeable and will actually set aside a week of lectures to talk about practical financial information such as a ROTH IRA and investment strategies. It was really something different, and I really appreciated that segment of the class. The one criticism of Gardner is that while she is a great lecturer, she is not all that invested in students' concerns and well-being. UCLA is a huge campus, so I assume this is pretty common throughout all classes.

I can't speak much for the TAs. I can imagine them being helpful for some students, but I only went to discussion once throughout the whole quarter. The one time I went was just a review and really did not enforce my learning of the material at hand. They also seemed to be kept out of the loop when it came to the exams and what would be on them. They were nice, but were not worth my time when it came to studying.

I did receive an A in this class with an 81 on the midterm (average: 63, median: 64) and an 83 on the final (average: 70, median: 73.5). According to a TA, the average for the midterm is usually around a 70, so I guess my class was just really stupid or something. I'm assuming that Gardner made the final easier to compensate for the drop in raw scores. The midterm is worth 35% of your grade and the final 45%.

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Professor Gardner is the BEST. Such a brilliant lady and the best lecturer I've had at UCLA -- she knows her stuff and really tries to make it fun. HOWEVER, her exams are really hard (time is incredibly tight) and there is a TON of work to be done for her class. Group project, homework problem sets, massive assignments, a midterm, and a final. Do not take this class unless you absolutely have to. But if you are in need of a MGMT professor, you will not find anyone better than her.

As a north campus none quantitative major, this was one of the hardest classes I've taken at UCLA. The workload is extremely heavy, you basically get no breaks all quarter. I studied sooo much for this class and ended up being in the B/C range, so I took the class for P/NP so it doesn't take a toll on my GPA. You can't really slack off in this class and need to be on top of your work and HW to give yourself some time to go to office hours. TA discussions were very helpful definitely go to them. Even though this was not a fun class for me, I have to admit that I learned a lot from it.. but I basically decided accounting wasn't for me.
Midterm and Final are very time sensitive so don't waste so much time on one question. BE very detailed about the answers in the HW assignments, as they are graded question by question and you will lose a lot of points if you do not have the answers right.

Definitely not easy, but worth taking.
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Definitely recommended class and professor. And I say this as a South Campus major. Not an easy class and you really need to go to every single lecture and pay close attention to every word the professor said. Very fair exam though, hard, but doable.

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Lectures are fun to attend but beware of the heavy workload.
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Gardner is a good lecturer and a fair grader, with pretty comprehensive and straightforward exams, and a course reader that's actually not awful. It's definitely a class that rewards hard work, especially if you have no accounting background. However, the homework assignments are incredibly superfluous; besides Assignment #2 (which had you fill out a ridiculous number of journal entries), none of them were really relevant to the course material. In particular, the first assignment was basically Warren Buffett worship (she does that a lot in the course reader and in class as well). She also shows up late to every lecture, and often rambles about public accounting firms and her personal life. Despite all this, she is the best option, and you should take this class with her if you have to. There are no good management professors, so might as well go with the one that's the most fair.

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