Accounting 610 – Accounting in a Corporate Environment – Week 5

Week 5 – Financial Analysis and Standard Costing

We’ve come to the final week of this class and wow it’s been a doozy. This week we learned about ratio analysis on financial statements and had to make an informed investment analysis between two national home improvement brands. On the Managerial side we reviewed standard Costing, variance analysis, and finally did a final exam on it. I spent twenty five hours again that weekend studying and doing the work. I did end up with a quick grade, having received an A on this week’s work, which gives me a solid A for the course.

Overall what a great course. The professor sent me a nice note congratulating me on my accomplishment. I gave him a high course review also. It is hard to fully state how gratifying as an adult student to hear that level of encouragement. There is so much doubt on our side, trepidation, and anxiety about if we made the right choice taking this on when all of the other students are so much younger and used to being in school. I did learn a lot in this course, I would give it a right out of ten.