Coursework did not give adequate information to be prepared for exams. Generally unhelpful information.

Too complicated and too many terms, best for intermediate level and not beginners

full of bugs in the tests ,and not allowing us to pass the tests

This class is extremely confusing.

Simply outstanding. I took this course in preparation of the accounting module required for my graduate studies. Professor Brian Bushee has a very amicable and pleasant personality. Despite the course being online, it was an immersive experience and felt as if I was being taught in person. I thought the presence of the virtual students accompanied by the many corny jokes was brilliant. Content-wise, I have to admit that I've yet to revisit some of the material due to my relative inexperience with the subject. That's on me rather than the course, though. The course as a whole, by contrast, has dispelled much of my initial apprehension about accounting and made me want to continue learning at my leisure. Professor Brian Bushee's insightful and intuitive selection of material definitively contributed to my curiosity. All in all, I strongly recommend this course and look forward to enrolling in the advanced course!

I found this course as addictive of studying with all its facility materials

I pray and hope a better life for Professor, Brian J Bushee. and wish he could cooperate thousands of knowledge seeker those who(m) are unable to pay for studying in university in Financial Accounting course as students from Afghanistan, or Africa, Middle east and other countries who(m) are eligible to improve their knowledge in Financial Accounting term.

once again I appreciate President (Chancellor), Professors and all members of Wharton University of Pennsylvania that they really facilitate this course for all people around the world and specially for me where I will find my prospective job by studying most of lessons.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

Ahmad Reshad Darwishy

Excellent introduction! Professor Bushee is clear, organized, and best of all goofy. A high-quality course right down to the formatting of the slide and video presentations. Plus, it covered exactly what I was looking for – starting with basic journal entries on the general ledger (including adjusting and closing entries) and then building into the foundations of some key financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement) and ratio analysis thereof. And the price is right! Free to audit (including graded assignments) and only $95 for the certificate (which not everyone will need, but it's still a huge bargain considering the cost of university per unit). A+!

When I started with the course, It took me some time to adjust to the style the course was delivered. I thought it might get boring, especially since I am completely from a non-finance background. But as I made progress with the course, I must say, Professor Brian has really done a great job, explaining the details of the concepts. I really liked the detailed case study analysis. It was lot of information, a very fast tracked course, but since we can always revisit the videos, they can give one a very good start. Thanks to the virtual class room, they are an acquired taste, towards the end of the course I got used to them, and missed their interesting questions. Thank you Prof. Brian.

Absolutely, if not one of the best Intro to Financial Accounting courses that I have taken. Professor Brian Bushee is able to explain accounting in an easy, fun, and understandable way. He gives a lot of practices and also shows real life examples!!!!

I, was able to understand Financial Accounting better in 4 weeks than I did in a semester at University. The one thing I would say that is quite challenging is the explanation towards Cash Flows and the fact that in quizzes there can be multiple answers for one question (it gets really annoying when you thought you answered it correctly, only to find out that you forget to check an additional box, as such you get 0 points).

Prof. Brian J Bushee has created an excellent course that is very interesting, entertaining not to mention you learn a lot within a few weeks of your time.

I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn or brush up their understanding of the fundamental principles of financial accounting.

Thanks for your self deprecating humor- it put us at ease. I felt as if I am sitting in your class, listening to your course live. I can't wait for your follow up course to attend.

In addition to being a great teacher with the mastery of the subject, Prof. Brian Bushee can be a full-time creator of a highly successful animation show packed with a great sense of humor.

Go Blue.

Shivram

Excellent course that will surely recommend to everyone new to the area. Never expected that accounting course could be so exciting and interesting to study. Professor Bushee is so humorous (with all his virtual students) and energetic. The learning materials are so well organized and the pace of the videos are great. All the exams are challenging and targeted to the key knowledge presented in the classes. I took this one only because I enrolled in another Wharton series courses (BA) in which the Accounting Analytics requires students should have some basic knowledge of accounting, and now I cannot wait to start another journey led by Professor Bushee there!

Professor Bushee does a fantastic job explaining the fundamentals of financial accounting in this course. He distills quite a lot of information in an accessible format with a lot of real world examples and time within the lectures dedicated to practicing the concepts. This is the 3rd course I've taken through Coursera but the first one where I truly felt like I understood the step-by-step approach and felt like I was truly grasping everything one bite at a time. I think that the "digital students" are a great idea that help the lectures actually simulate a classroom and help bring up and answer potential questions that students might have while learning.

Very complete and in depth course for a beginner. Lots of info and material for future reference. Very clear lectures. I had started the same kind of course on another platform were the way the subject was taught was completely different, I found it hard and for other reasons decided to enroll in this one, which in comparison is way more linear and logic in the way it introduces the topics.

Only one suggestion to make the course a bit easier to understand, would be to use a bit of flow charts to better visualize some concepts. But that's only because some people may be more comfortable memorizing images.

Great work, terrific value for money!

At first I thought I would hate the text-to-speech virtual students, but they ended up being the best part of the course! Professor Brian Bushee is really good at teaching a subject that would normally be very boring or confuzzling, and very importantly he gives lots and lots of examples to illustrate what you're learning. Sometimes he can explain some things better for learners like me who aren't familiar with finance, but overall he's an A+ teacher. Often when there's something you don't know, he anticipates it and reassures you that he'll get to it in later weeks of the course, which is really nice.

Excellent course. I found it quite challenging and learned a huge amount. The course was well structured and extremely well prepared for this online learning format. The instructor did an outstanding job of presenting the material systematically and patiently, with lots (tons!) of examples. He definitely understands the persistence required to understand the subject and teaches the course the same way one must learn a language, a comparison he made from the beginning. The virtual students were fun and loved the quirky humour and forehead-slapping puns. Professor Buschee, I take my hat off to you, sir!

This course will introduce you to accounting in the efficient and smooth way. Most importantly, the professor really knows how to teach it! We all know that accounting is boring and many of us are struggling to get even the basics. However, if you stay tuned throughout the course you will see that the professor is doing exceptional work while introducing Cash Flow Statement (which is the most challenging part of financial accounting to many newbeies). I highly recommend the course to those who just started studying Accounting OR who wants to review the basics before landing a new job or internship.

It is an amazing course. Initially, the title "Financial Accounting" sounded extremely boring to me but I could not expect that the journey was turning more and more fantastic after several videos. I really love how Professor Brian developed his content with virtual interactions from animation to represent a physical classroom instead of talking and answering questions himself. And of course, the course succeeded in delivering basic skills to read and prepare financial statement such as Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flow. Many thanks to Professor Brian J Bushee again :)

I am a rising high school junior who just completed this course during the summer. I am highly interested in business, so this course was relatively fun for me. Professor Bushee's lessons were easy to understand, straightforward, and very get-to-the-point, which I enjoyed. Personally, this course was a bit of a challenge. Since it is a college-level course, some of the topics were harder for me to understand and get a hold of. But overall, I think that as long as one tries to understand the lectures and memorizes the important equations, the course is great. I greatly enjoyed this course!

By means of this course, I got to understand the most fundamentals concepts of financial accounting. Professor Brian is very good at explaining this concepts, with a very entertaining way of teaching. I needed to go back to classes to take and retake the tests, so it shows that you must comprehend the concepts in order to pass the Tests. I would recommend this course to anyone that wants to learn about accouting. For my case, which is related to process to becoming an investment banker, this course was a great foundation, and the stepping stone into the other courses offered by coursera.

Thank you so much for this course, Prof. Brian. It's so interactive while the questions asked and points made by your virtual students were relatable and yes, I was having fun while learning, At first, I told myself that I don't need to learn accounting stuff but this course changed my mind. I'm now confident to look, read and analyze financial reports of my current company or even those of my dream companies.

Thank you again. Cheers to more students and professionals alike who will find this course useful, interactive and relatable!

Real Prado, Mechanical Engineer

Philippines

Fantastic overview, covered all desired topics going into the course. The material itself was engaging and interesting, it should be said, however, that the instructor has a perplexing way of going about this. There is a running gag of having virtual students be angry and/or bored with the presented material. As someone genuinely interested in the topic, this came off rather crass and de-motivating rather than humorous. That said, the material itself was incredibly engaging and perfectly paced. Professor Bushee is an incredible teacher, perhaps not so incredible a comedian.

Learning accounting was once described to me as "something as fun as chewing cardboard." This was not the case with Prof. Bushee's class. I came in never having taken an accounting class before and he made the topics approachable and understandable. The virtual students are silly at first (and continue to be so throughout the class), but I chuckled at them many times and their questions were often the exact questions I was thinking. I enjoyed Prof. Bushee's sense of humor and use of "dad jokes" to keep the material light and kept me engaged. Thanks so much!

Very interesting fun and thorough course. Apart from the very high amount of notions offered, which is what one would expect from a course, they were broken down incredibly well. The Professor explains it so well that makes you able to pick up even most complex things at first sight. The only negative point of this course is that during the exams wherever you make a mistake then it does not tell you why, not even a hint. Anyway you can work it through by using the tools and notions you´ve justlearned which is also a positive thing of the course as well.

One of the more dedicated educators on here, this instructor took time and effort to try to make the concepts fun and the examples, throughout the course are extremely helpful and well-plotted out to gain in complexity. He addresses questions students may have as well, and explains the answers to the quiz questions. Could be better: Intuitively explaining the aspects and analogies. I supplemented my understanding with outside material, and they sometimes had less roundabout ways of delivering memorable concepts, personally speaking.

Awesome course. I had no previous knowledge of any of these topics but at the end of the course I was confident with the Accounting Language. Thanks to Prof Brian Bushee that seems to have understood perfectly the true meaning of fun in learning. I really appreciated the presence of virtual students that helped to clarify some doubts that I raised in my head during the lessons. It was not just theory, but with the Relic Spotter case you had also the chance to put in practise what you were learning. Absolutely recommended.