Intro to Accounting

Good basics class.

very informative

Very easy course

Really helpful!

Great teaching!

very satisfied

Refresher Great

More practice.

VERY help full

Amazing course

Informational

iNFORMATIONAL

it's perfect

Very Good

Awesome!

good.

ممتعه

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nice

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The 'Teacher' does not do a good job in explaining things - definitions, examples, concepts. Things are only explained in one sentence usually or only given 1 example, and expects the 'student' to understand fully. This is supposed to be a beginners course yet it is very difficult for those without prior knowledge nor experience to understand since everything is only lightly grazed over.

Take the final exam at the end of the course for example - the student is taught & shown how Quickbooks will automate everything and run reports and organize the categories via its system. Even in the real case studies by the real bookkeepers in the videos they were using Quickbooks. Yet in the exam, the student is expected to do this manually all by themselves via a manual Excel sheet, to know the behind-the-scenes of the workings of Quickbooks already. This is for a beginner or those without accounting knowledge? The instructions on the exam and excel file provided was also extremely confusing - not only were the instructions unclear, but FYI even greyed out boxes almost always mean do NOT fill in yet here it is the complete opposite. How confusing! Perhaps another color or indicator would be utmost helpful!

Had I not already have some working experience and knowledge, I would have been so confused and have failed enormously on this exam. The layout and format of the courses is also confusing and not user-friendly. The plug-ins most of the time you do not know whether it's truly done and even cannot repeat nor go backwards because it's a plug-in. There's no progress bar either. There's a Next button as well as a Continue button AND a Mark as Completed button. Which button is the student supposed to press?? And turns out, they do not all mean the same thing either... So confusing! There is plenty of room for improvement for this class, and I hope it is done before more 'students' take this course so as not to waste anyone's time and money and energy.

If you're new to bookkeeping, this is a good course to start with, and I can see why the Intuit people would try to revolve it around a fictional TV show. But I do have some bones to pick with it.

For starters, despite all the talk about QuickBooks Online being the software used in the course, you don't actually get to use a simulation of it hands-on...in other words, the interactive segments are a bit shallow. Also, this would have been better presented with an actual accounting professional using a whiteboard: If you're not good at pencil and paper notes like I am, you're going to find some key concepts in the first two lessons go right over your head because you can't capture notes when you need them the most. Finally, the final project isn't rigorous enough: I blasted through it in a lot less time than the 1 hour suggested space.

This isn't a bad course, but if you want a firm grip on accounting basics, I would recommend one of the REAL accounting courses on the Coursera platform over this one.