How do I continue coasting through college?

[ShadowArmy]

I had a ridiculously hard time working on some problems involving Accounting for business leases (Intermediate Accounting II). Reading over sections of the chapters they relate to didn't help. The chapter on accounting for Income Taxes is even worse: The chapter summaries and example problems don't make sense at all.

It feels like the time I went through the online training for becoming a certified volunteer tax preparer: I gave up half-way through because the depth of tax law was unbearable and painful. Anybody who uses turbo tax or hires a tax preparer knows what I am talking about.

Is there any other way around fully reading the chapters front to back? That is a very time consuming and inefficient method for me, as I found out in the first semester. And it might not work, either. I got by quite well while barely reading the textbooks in all of my classes until now.

 

[Maestro]

You don't.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Study something else?

 

[Raziaar]

Why would you want to? Last thing I'd want is to get a job and realize I know jack shit and have to tell them that, if they didn't find out during the interview.

I mean... unless you're George Costanza or something... hiding under your desk all day long.

 

[StarBob]

Accounting sucks, dont do it. You make good money but then you're an accountant.

 

[No Limit]

Drop out and go be an intern at wal-mart. You can thank me later.

http://walmartstores.com/Careers/323.aspx

 

[jverne]

Drop out and go be an intern at wal-mart. You can thank me later.

http://walmartstores.com/Careers/323.aspx

That video almost made me puke. What a load of horseshit. "They care for your future" bwhaha yeah right!
I don't care how much it pays, dealing with bosses that probably see you as sub human, give you shitloads of papers to work on. The office times 5.
You're probably there as an educated work drone.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I'm not giving you advice on coasting through college when I have to work almost a solid 9-5 if I want to be able to get a first class degree.

Not that I'm going to do that, but still.

 

[Darkside55]

Accounting sucks, dont do it. You make good money but then you're an accountant.

I said something to this effect to one of my accounting professors years back. Wish I hadn't. Stupid decision.

Don't coast, OP. Soon as you fall into that shit it affects the rest of your life. Coasting used to be my motto since...well, long before college. And after I graduated I figured I could just coast around too. Now it's five years after I got my degree and I'm sitting here like, "If I had a time machine I'd go back to the first day I said 'I'm just going to coast through life' and beat the everloving shit out of myself." And then I'd warp forward in time to that point where I told my professor "I like money, but I hate accounting" and beat the shit out of myself twice as hard.

Could've been making $200 an hour right now.

Fuckin' DUMB.

So even if it's difficult and time consuming, you read those goddamn books. You read them front to back, cover to cover; do it two, three times if you have to to understand it. And if those books you have right now aren't explaining it well enough, look into some other books on the same material that might be written in an easier to understand format. And talk to your professor about things you're having difficulty understanding; that's what they're there for. Just don't coast dude, it's the worst thing you can do.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Wow, not looking forward to those accounting classes.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Darkside's words are haunting because I could probably still become a lawyer, and what's more enjoy it. But I ain't gonna.

 

[Moto]

I got A grades in Financial Accounting I and II and I couldn't make heads or tails of what they were talking about in the text. Most of the time I couldn't understand the professor's lectures, either. I learned by example. I carefully read the dozen or so pages worth of problems in the back of each chapter and then looked at this complete, problem by problem solutions manual .pdf file I had. It explained everything step by step. Eventually, I was able to do problems without the solutions manual and at that point, I only used it to check my work. Once I became good at the problems, the text began to make sense. I pretty much learned every chapter in reverse.

Even my accounting professor who is also a CPA admitted to looking things up from time to time. It's a tough subject with a lot of depth and a lot of things to remember.

 

[OmegaX]

I've taken 4 accounting classes in college so far. I believe I am done with them though, as my major is Business Administration. They weren't incredibly tough, I understood basically everything that was being taught. I found accounting to be much easier than math classes though. Never managed to get an A. I received a B in every single one.

Anyways...I'm glad accounting is not my major. It can get kind of boring and if you make one mistake you royally f*ck everything up.

 

[VictimOfScience]

The world doesn't need more accountants. The only people I knew in college who were accounting majors were greedy jerk-offs. Do something that actually benefits society.

 

[Warped]

build killer robots that rape people, thats something we haven't seen enough of

 

[The Monkey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOmB1q8W4Y

 

[ShadowArmy]

You know what, never mind. When we went over those leasing problems in class, it made a whole lot more sense to me. And when we went over a section about deferred tax liabilities/assets, the pieces came into place. Now I can continue coasting. Guess I didn't need to listen to you guys after all.

 

[Maria Flores]

I guess if it helps anyone, study groups are supposed to make the learning experience much more enjoyable and effective. Not my thing personally, but I've tried it so few times I am more and more compelled to start doing it.