How hard is managerial accounting at UMPI?

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I just finished this course today. The content wasn't bad, but the lack of videos made it a lot harder to absorb the concepts. I started to really struggle near the middle and by the end I was almost pulling my hair out. I ended up watching a bunch of online vids to get the majority of the learning done. Not being able to use scratch paper on the final exam was VERY frustrating as I had a hard time keeping the numbers straight while trying to sort everything out on the dinky little calculator provided. I ended up doing a hail mary and guestimating any of the harder formula questions as I knew I was close to the 70% pass. Ended up squeaking by, but I was in the same boat as you and feeling pretty stressed about the class. I'm just glad it's done now. Unless I'm missing something key this type of course with calculations seems like a poor match for the Instantcert format.

Having said all of that, you got this!! 

Here are the videos that helped me a bunch;

https://www.edspira.com/index-managerial-accounting/

All the best.

Shawn

Thank you, Shawn. I'm going to redo both the 1st exam and the midterm and hope for a better grade. I haven't even gotten started on the last third of the lessons and I'm already dreading it. I'll have a look at the link you shared. I'll try to chug on through. Thanks again

Hey there. I'm not sure if this information is too late or not, but in an e-mail, with Steven from Instantcert, he confirmed even though it is not mentioned anywhere you can use scrap paper on the final exam. Since it's a pass/fail grade for me and I passed I'm not going to sweat it, but I figured I would let you know in case you are still working on the course.

Best of luck!!

Shawn

Thanks, Shawn. I ended up dropping it. I really wasn't feeling confident at all. I'm hoping that UMPI's will work out. This might be the deciding factor between me getting a business degree or BLS

WOW, just took the first test in this course... 68%... not feeling good about this at all. I hope the videos listed help because the lack of Video content for accounting is rough. and to think I aced both my Accounting I and II classes at a South Suburban College before taking this course... 

I am hoping the video's shared in this thread help, because this course is depressing...

I totally felt the same way. Were you using scrap paper? I think I finished with a 72, my lowest course by far, but was literally doing stuff in my head and felt like an idiot when I found out that scratch paper was allowed. Even so, I can't recommend the SDC version enough, it was a lot easier for me to take in.

Best of luck!