I am avoiding my accounting homework. :/
Yesterday I waded into it and nearly drown. After working on it for eight hours, my debits do not equal my credits and I cannot figure out where the mistake is. I have one more chapter's worth of homework to do and I'm still not done with the other chapter.
So then I sat down and did (what else) a spreadsheet of what grades I have thus far and ran some 'what if' scenarios for the remaining two weeks of class. If I get half credit for these two chapters that are due tomorrow, do terrible on the next two exams and miss a couple of questions on the remaining 4 quizzes, I would receive 2.9, or a "B." This is actually a respectable grade but I am so worried about it. I can get, even messing up this weekend's homework, at least a 3.8, provided I ace the remaining exams, quizzes and homework assignments. In every other class I have gotten A's, but accounting, which is so math-like, is proving to be a real challenge.
And the odd thing is, I like the class for the most part, even if there are aspects of the instructor that work my nerves. Rob was horrified when he married me that I kept my finances in a spreadsheet of my own devising so that over an entire year, I knew exactly where my money was going and how much out of each paycheck needed to be reserved for forthcoming bills. Because finances were the last straw between my ex-husband and me, I needed the security of knowing that every bill would be paid for in cash and that any luxury might still be possible if I planned for it in advance. Using that spreadsheet kept me going over several years and I was able to project things like now and again taking the boys to Cirque du Soleil, the Mariners or the symphony. We may not have lived like millionaires, but everything we had I could afford, and more importantly to me, pay cash for. Given that, I thought accounting would be easier for me, but it's not.
On the bright side, now I know what all those columns are supposed to be for in those green page ledger books. I've always wondered. :)
Yesterday I waded into it and nearly drown. After working on it for eight hours, my debits do not equal my credits and I cannot figure out where the mistake is. I have one more chapter's worth of homework to do and I'm still not done with the other chapter.
So then I sat down and did (what else) a spreadsheet of what grades I have thus far and ran some 'what if' scenarios for the remaining two weeks of class. If I get half credit for these two chapters that are due tomorrow, do terrible on the next two exams and miss a couple of questions on the remaining 4 quizzes, I would receive 2.9, or a "B." This is actually a respectable grade but I am so worried about it. I can get, even messing up this weekend's homework, at least a 3.8, provided I ace the remaining exams, quizzes and homework assignments. In every other class I have gotten A's, but accounting, which is so math-like, is proving to be a real challenge.
And the odd thing is, I like the class for the most part, even if there are aspects of the instructor that work my nerves. Rob was horrified when he married me that I kept my finances in a spreadsheet of my own devising so that over an entire year, I knew exactly where my money was going and how much out of each paycheck needed to be reserved for forthcoming bills. Because finances were the last straw between my ex-husband and me, I needed the security of knowing that every bill would be paid for in cash and that any luxury might still be possible if I planned for it in advance. Using that spreadsheet kept me going over several years and I was able to project things like now and again taking the boys to Cirque du Soleil, the Mariners or the symphony. We may not have lived like millionaires, but everything we had I could afford, and more importantly to me, pay cash for. Given that, I thought accounting would be easier for me, but it's not.
On the bright side, now I know what all those columns are supposed to be for in those green page ledger books. I've always wondered. :)
posted by Owl Chick at 8/03/2003 11:04:00 AM
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