Accounting Hell

I’m really disliking my new accounting class about now. And I haven’t even officially had a class yet.

In the program I’m in, we have only 5 or 6 weeks to complete what is normally a 13 week class. It’s the whole enchilada – no Reader’s Digest version of Accounting for us. So we have to cram a whole lot of stuff into a relatively short time.

That’s why our first class is next Tuesday, but we already have assignments and tests to complete beforehand. With my Econ class, it was okay. I at least had a basic concept of how Macroeconomics worked, and I was able to work with the materials to grasp what was going on beforehand.

But accounting? That’s something new to me. I’ve never had an accounting class, so when they talk about crap like owner’s equity and balance sheets, you might as well be talking about Russian czars of the fourteenth century. It’s all new to me.

But they’re pretty much thrown us to the wolves, handed us a book, and said, “Go for it”. Our first tests are due at noon Sunday, 2 ½ days before our first class session. What’s up with that? Doctors aren’t expected to know how to perform open heart surgery before their first day of medical school, are they? Hell, I hope not.

So I’m struggling with an accounting book that I really don’t understand, and I’m finding my usual lack of patience to be a hindrance. Things usually come fairly easy to me – I’m not accustomed to having to actually work for something.

But I WILL conquer this. I’m not going to let some stupid accounting class slow me down, and it’s certainly not going to be the equity-laden albatross that will sink my 4.0 GPA. Come hell, high water, or financial insolvency on my income statements, I’ll figure this shit out.

Because while I may be fairly impatient, I’m also very stubborn. And what better way to snub this horrendous class than by passing it with flying colors? Ha!

So if there are any CPAs out there who are bored and want to toss their old pal Tommy some hints, I’m willing to listen. In exchange I’ll tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Disney. It’s only fair.