UC Davis Working Professional (Bay Area) MBA course review
MGB 200A: Financial Accounting with Michelle Yetman
Date evaluated: Fall 2008 at the Bay Area Working Professional San Ramon campus.
Official course description: Introduces the concepts and objectives underlying the preparation of financial statements. Topics include understanding the accounting cycle, measurement and valuation problems associated with financial statement components, consideration of the usefulness of financial statements in the analysis of a corporation’s operations.
The real course description: This course is a management-level introduction to financial accounting with lots of emphasis on GAAP and the four financial statements: the balance sheet, statement of cash flows, statement of stockholders equity, and income statement. We talked a lot about best practices and the impact certain decisions have on a company’s perceived financial health, but also touched on how to use metrics to measure performance. I found financial/performance metrics analysis very interesting and I will probably try to take more classes on this topic.
The professor: Prof. Yetman was very concerned with our grades, and worked diligently to prepare us for quizzes and the final. She really cared about us and even joined us several times for a beer after class. All the material we were tested on was covered in class or in the homework assignments. The textbook was excellent and the course pack was well put together; I am going to keep the material for future reference.
The grade: I got an A+ in the class, and I give the course and the instructor an A.
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