I'll have to admit, I am a totally non-accounting person. I don't even like to have to balance a checkbook. The entire concept of debit and credit from an accounting standpoint has never made sense to me. So, I when I received a copy of Professor in a Box: Financial Accounting, I was leery. My oldest daughter is a senior this year, and she needs to take economics next semester. I have enough understanding of some economic theory to teach her, but I really don't have any background in accounting -- so I have felt inadequately prepared for her study of economics. After examining Financial Accounting and trying out some of the lessons, I have changed my thinking completely. Michael Licata has done a tremendous job of presenting a daunting subject in an easy-to-understand format. This is a c.d. driven course. For $99 you receive all student instructional c.d.'s, which include lectures, problems, solutions to the problems, key concepts, and printable slides, and an instructor c.d. containing lesson plans, quizzes, tests, solutions to the quizzes and tests, and the Excel documents needed for all of the lessons. There is no additional textbook required. The course can be studied as either a full college course or an abbreviated high school course. The course includes twenty-eight lessons. Each lesson, including homework, is estimated to take approximately three hours to complete. The lessons are very easy to follow and the c.d. format is extremely user-friendly. The available print options allow you to give your student hard copies of anything they need in hand from the program. This program gives a thorough study of financial accounting and can prepare your child for the CLEP test in Accounting.About the author:
Michael P. Licata, Ph.D. is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Accountancy in the Villanova School of Business2 at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Professor Licata has taught the financial accounting course dozens of times in his 24 plus years as a Professor at Villanova University. He has also taught the financial accounting course for 4 years (as a graduate student) at Northeastern University, Texas A & M University, and Harvard University. The past eight years Professor Licata has specialized in teaching 100% distance learning courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Throughout his career students have consistently rated Professor Licata among the best teachers in his department and in his college at Villanova University according to the Course and Teacher Surveys (CATS) at Villanova University.
The courses available through Professor in a Box currently are:
Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting: Study Guide
Principles of Marketing
Entrepreneurship
I noticed on the website that they are currently running an online special. If you purchase Financial Accounting at $99.95, you can pre-order Principles of Marketing for only $89.95.This is a great deal. Most textbooks for accounting or marketing classes cost well over $100.
I am exited to get to use this with my daughter and with my other children when they are old enough. I love the c.d. study. It is so convenient and much less bulky than a traditional textbook. Several of my kids are quite entrepreneurial, so I am really thinking about trying out the marketing and entrepreneurship courses as well. I think this accounting course would even benefit adults, like myself, who are challenged in the area of accounting.
For more information about Financial Accounting, pay a visit to their website at: http://www.professorinabox.com/index.php. To read additional reviews of this product go to:http://homeschoolblogger.com/homeschoolcrew/783255/.
**Disclaimer: I was not compensated in any way by TOS, The Homeschool Crew, or Professor in a Box in exchange for this review. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.**
