Today I had my first class in Financial Accounting II. I have different professor from my previous Fin Accounting course. And she is really very different: very sharp, to the point, very well organized. Her lecture, like the whole course, was very well prepared and laid out. And she was giving clear explanation to the concepts, as well as to the specifics that we were working on in the class.
As she stated in the class, she would not try to teach us how to do book-keeping, leaving that domain to accountants, but rather help us become intelligent readers/users of prepared financial statement. That’s exactly what I would expect from the MBA program: practical application and integration of diverse domains with respect to doing business.
On the Blackboard she already has almost all materials we will need in the course: lecture slides, lecture notes (expanded explanation of the subject matter covered during the lecture, which may, to a degree, serve almost as a substitute to chapters in the textbook), articles from magazines and newspapers for supplemental reading on every topic covered during the course, cases, practice problems, sample quiz from the past, and even solutions to the problems in the textbook.
I am really amazed by how much thought and work she has put into this class. I have great expectation for this course, just like for the Judgment & Decisions. Of course, it is obvious that this half-term of my MBA program will be much more demanding in terms of time and effort. I will definitely have to make more substantial sacrifices than in the previous half-term. Especially because of one more class that I am taking this time. OK, let the full immersion into part-time MBA program begin 
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