MGMT 1A
Principles of Accounting
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open to freshmen. Introduction to financial accounting principles, including preparation and analysis of financial transactions and financial statements. Valuation and recording of asset-related transactions, including cash, receivables, marketable securities, inventories, and long-lived assets. Current liabilities. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2026 - This class is pretty hard if you don't immediately review and go over the notes and lectures after they are originally taught. It is a lot to try to learn everything right before the midterm and final. This professor cold calls on students in the lectures, so I wouldn't take her if you don't want that. You kind of have to attend lectures to receive activity participation points that are from in class activities. This class is definitely manageable, but it's hard if you don't stay on top of the studying.
Spring 2026 - This class is pretty hard if you don't immediately review and go over the notes and lectures after they are originally taught. It is a lot to try to learn everything right before the midterm and final. This professor cold calls on students in the lectures, so I wouldn't take her if you don't want that. You kind of have to attend lectures to receive activity participation points that are from in class activities. This class is definitely manageable, but it's hard if you don't stay on top of the studying.
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Spring 2025 - Professor Devitto is not a career professor, he actually came from being a real life accounting so he brings in real world relevant information that is actually useful to the business sphere. He doesnt just teach you what a journal entry is and how to do it, he teaches you why you need to journal entry and what this can tell you about certain companies. If you can get him as a teacher definitely do, he is amazing. Also teaches 1B so you could potentially have him again.
Spring 2025 - Professor Devitto is not a career professor, he actually came from being a real life accounting so he brings in real world relevant information that is actually useful to the business sphere. He doesnt just teach you what a journal entry is and how to do it, he teaches you why you need to journal entry and what this can tell you about certain companies. If you can get him as a teacher definitely do, he is amazing. Also teaches 1B so you could potentially have him again.
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Winter 2021 - This is one of the most incredible teachers I have ever had the privilege to learn from at UCLA. Her lectures are succinct and interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone to take this class because it will teach you so many valuable things about finance. Prof Gardner was kind and I found that when it came to reasonable requests, she happily granted them. By FAR the best teacher I have had at UCLA and she teaches the information incredibly well.
Winter 2021 - This is one of the most incredible teachers I have ever had the privilege to learn from at UCLA. Her lectures are succinct and interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone to take this class because it will teach you so many valuable things about finance. Prof Gardner was kind and I found that when it came to reasonable requests, she happily granted them. By FAR the best teacher I have had at UCLA and she teaches the information incredibly well.
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Winter 2026 - Honestly, Gardner was a really great lecturer that I'll remember years from now. Super interesting anecdotes the lectures were engaging, and she offered some really luxurious networking opportunities for people who actually wanted to pursue accounting (not me). The exams were hard, and a lot of the assignments were honestly useless busy work, but I don't the class is as horrid as everyone says it was. If you have to take it, you can definitely get an A.
Winter 2026 - Honestly, Gardner was a really great lecturer that I'll remember years from now. Super interesting anecdotes the lectures were engaging, and she offered some really luxurious networking opportunities for people who actually wanted to pursue accounting (not me). The exams were hard, and a lot of the assignments were honestly useless busy work, but I don't the class is as horrid as everyone says it was. If you have to take it, you can definitely get an A.
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