Professor
Julie Gardner Treloar
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2025 - unless you are sure you want to do accounting or insist on continuing as a bus econ major, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. 1) Lectures - basically mandatory, no recorded lectures, no notes posted. if you want to imagine what a lecture with gardner is like, imagine being screamed at by a drill sergeant, making you memorize accounting terms no one knows the definition of. Her way of teaching can be engaging to some and frustrating for others, due to brute memorization nature of her teaching style. She went through 2 lectures screaming at us to memorize where debits and credits go, but never explaining what either of them meant. 2) Assignments - huge portion of your grade, graded by TA's with utmost accuracy that you would think they don't have a job or anything else to do. biggest tip: DO NOT slack on the first assignment, it's worth like 10 percent of your grade (it consists of her obsession with buffet). Assignment 2 takes 2 weeks of utter frustration and damn near had me giving up, but it's graded on completion (you can only pass the class if you do it with full accuracy, but it doesn't actually go in the gradebook as an assignment). EVERY assignment is on paper and submitted in-person. If you do not turn it in within the first 5 minutes of class, you are duducted 50% off the assignment. 3) Course Reader - 70 bucks, where she takes all of her notes, midterm and final are duplicates of the course readers. Forget about what she says in class; brute memorization of the course reader is enough to do well on her exams. I switched my major to econ, and she removed every morsel of passion I had for accounting.
Fall 2025 - unless you are sure you want to do accounting or insist on continuing as a bus econ major, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. 1) Lectures - basically mandatory, no recorded lectures, no notes posted. if you want to imagine what a lecture with gardner is like, imagine being screamed at by a drill sergeant, making you memorize accounting terms no one knows the definition of. Her way of teaching can be engaging to some and frustrating for others, due to brute memorization nature of her teaching style. She went through 2 lectures screaming at us to memorize where debits and credits go, but never explaining what either of them meant. 2) Assignments - huge portion of your grade, graded by TA's with utmost accuracy that you would think they don't have a job or anything else to do. biggest tip: DO NOT slack on the first assignment, it's worth like 10 percent of your grade (it consists of her obsession with buffet). Assignment 2 takes 2 weeks of utter frustration and damn near had me giving up, but it's graded on completion (you can only pass the class if you do it with full accuracy, but it doesn't actually go in the gradebook as an assignment). EVERY assignment is on paper and submitted in-person. If you do not turn it in within the first 5 minutes of class, you are duducted 50% off the assignment. 3) Course Reader - 70 bucks, where she takes all of her notes, midterm and final are duplicates of the course readers. Forget about what she says in class; brute memorization of the course reader is enough to do well on her exams. I switched my major to econ, and she removed every morsel of passion I had for accounting.