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Honestly, business courses like accounting and economics are just as difficult as any undergrad hard science course you'll take depending on the person. The reason why business isn't seen as a difficult major is because there's a lot of cupcake classes mixed in with a difficult ones unlike the hard Sciences or engineering where you get blasted every semester.
The only undergrad courses that really trump anything you'll encounter in a business program are engineering courses.
meh.
I set the curve in my statistics and accounting classes. I was a little above average in my Architecture studio classes after spending 40+ hours a week in studio.
Hardest UG business course would probably be a HRM class. I never took any, but my required HR management class during my MBA was the only class I got less than a B+ in.
A close second was Organizational Behavior, but that was because the grading was very funky and depended on a peer evaluation. A bunch of 20-year olds are not always thinking rationally when it comes to those evaluations, and let things like being in the same Greek house influence them.
Intermediate Accounting. No competition. Much harder than even Advanced according to the accounting majors I knew. Management major courses I would have to say Microeconomics.
I remember Intermediate being difficult, and now I don't even remember much about that class. My experience would have been different with a different professor, I think.
For me, statistics and economics were probably the hardest. My brain just doesn't function the best with those subjects.
I'm currently working on my Masters in Accounting. I've heard Advanced Accounting Theory is pretty tough. I guess I'll find out this summer.
I remember Intermediate being difficult, and now I don't even remember much about that class. My experience would have been different with a different professor, I think.
For me, statistics and economics were probably the hardest. My brain just doesn't function the best with those subjects.
I'm currently working on my Masters in Accounting. I've heard Advanced Accounting Theory is pretty tough. I guess I'll find out this summer.
It's been many decades since I took the course (Had nightmares for years after graduation). My Intermediate I class met in the evening for a 3 hour torture session once a week. Waterboarding and having a root canal had nothing on how much I hated this. Problem wasn't the teacher either. He was very good. I just struggled with it. Principles of Accounting was a cakewalk. I don't know why, but my aptitude for understanding this stuff just wasn't there. Stats and finance was a piece of cake in comparison. You either have the aptitude for Accounting as a career or you don't.
I heard that Theory was pretty tough. I learned my lesson after taking a year of ELECTIVE (Yea, that's right, it was an elective to me helping to lower my GPA) Intermediate Accounting to not take any more upper level accounting classes.
It's been many decades since I took the course (Had nightmares for years after graduation). My Intermediate I class met in the evening for a 3 hour torture session once a week. Waterboarding and having a root canal had nothing on how much I hated this. Problem wasn't the teacher either. He was very good. I just struggled with it. Principles of Accounting was a cakewalk. I don't know why, but my aptitude for understanding this stuff just wasn't there. Stats and finance was a piece of cake in comparison. You either have the aptitude for Accounting as a career or you don't.
I heard that Theory was pretty tough. I learned my lesson after taking a year of ELECTIVE (Yea, that's right, it was an elective to me helping to lower my GPA) Intermediate Accounting to not take any more upper level accounting classes.
Accounting has always made sense to me, even if some of the classes aren't easy. There are plenty of subjects that don't come naturally to me.
Accounting has always made sense to me, even if some of the classes aren't easy. There are plenty of subjects that don't come naturally to me.
Accounting whipped me because so much of it felt counterintuitive to me....at least at first.
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My experience would have been different with a different professor, I think.
