Woo. FOREVER GOD!!!

SUPER NICE Professor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grading consists of 3 "quiz" and a big assignment, 25% each, quiz are super easy. Big assignment is not hard if you understand the material well. EASY A with 83%+ score. I got almost full score for all the quiz and assignment. The professor actually wants us to get As!!! Definetely recommend her !!!

The best class in the accounting minor I've ever taken. By far.
She uploads all her lecture videos at the start of class, so you can watch everything at your own pace. Pretty helpful. She goes through the notes with you in "fill-in-the blank" style, so lectures are clear and helpful. No complaints at all about the lecture style or clarity.

Homework is only recommended, but those that did it tended to do better. You probably don't need to do ALL the recommended questions (she recommends more than necessary); just do at least one from each topic. If you choose to completely skip the homework, it might be hard to get an A.

There are 3 quizzes, each worth 33%. If you pay attention to her lectures, take good notes, and do at least some of the recommended homework, you should be more than fine to get an A. Sometimes the book/homework contradicts what she teaches in lecture (since the book sometimes uses weird accounts), but always remember to use what she taught us as a rule-of-thumb in these cases. Quizzes were also multiple choice and non-cumulative, which helped.

She also gave us an Extra Credit Opportunity worth 3% of our grade, which is a pretty substantial chunk and certainly helped push some students over the edge for an A. It seems as if most of my peers were successful and enjoyed this class. I certainly did. Highly recommend Woo for 120A.

Exams are challenging in this class because they’re open note/open book exams. Professor Woo lectures are clear and concise, but sometimes boring. She just has this really calm and almost monotone voice but obviously this isn’t a big deal. While the lectures notes and the class examples are mostly straight forward and appear simple, DON’T let this fool you. The exams are way more challenging and closer related to the textbook problems, which can become tedious if you wait until the last week to do them. It will drive you crazy because they can get repetitive! But this is honestly the best way to study. I found the midterm in particular to be very time crushed so try not to refer so often to your notes and just do them from memory and double check if you have time in the end. The final was online and I guess because this was very last minute, she made it extremely easy. It was almost pointless to have spent hours on hours studying for an exam that could have easily been aced without having done any hw. Of course, next quarter it will also be online, but by then she probably will change the difficulty since she has time to format a much harder test! I would recommend taking her if you can 8/10

Let me start off by saying that I've taken nearly every CPA applicable course that UCLA has to offer with a different professor each time. Accounting is not an easy subject, let alone intermediate accounting and courses beyond. So anyone that has ambitions of working as an accountant or pursuing their CPA license and complains about the difficulty of a course or its respective workload has no grounds to complain and is really just in for a rude awakening once they begin working or studying for FAR alone. Quite frankly, if you're taking a class solely to get a decent grade for GPA or recruitment purposes and not to actually learn anything, then you're thinking with a very short term mindset and will inevitably fail when applying these topics in practice.

With that being said, if there's anyone who can prepare you for the intermediate topics covered on the CPA it's definitely Woo. Professor Woo is BY FAR THE BEST PROFESSOR that I've had at UCLA. Her course is structured to cover 10 chapters, 4 of which were tested on the midterm (40%), and the rest on the final (60%). She assigns homework for each chapter which is all very similar to questions that you may see on the exam. Aside from this, she posts weekly lecture notes that you fill out in class as she teaches. The lecture notes are also extremely helpful in ensuring you understand the core concepts of the chapters and are very relevant to the material covered in the exams. There is an assigned textbook that is really only required for the homework problems; I only referred to the textbook for clarity once the entire quarter. Even as the Coronavirus caused us to switch to online classes, Professor Woo made herself readily available to anyone with questions and conducted two lectures through Zoom before the final exam, which only affirms her dedication to her students. Passing this class with a decent grade is, therefore, solely based on whether or not you want to apply yourself and actually do the homework and review the notes.

Professor Woo was more than willing and able to answer any of our questions during lectures, office hours, and emails. If the questions were beyond the scope of the class or not applicable to course material, she made it very clear that it was not something we needed to focus on. She was very patient with all of us; some students constantly bombarded her with questions after and before lectures and not once did I see her turn anyone away or lose her cool, despite the redundancy or ridiculousness of some of those questions - way more than I can say for some professors. Though I do admit that her exams were difficult, there was nothing on them that wasn't already covered in class or homework. On top of that, her curve is extremely generous - without it, I may have not gotten the grade that I finished the class with, which seemed to be the general consensus amongst most students.

My favorite thing about Woo was that, unlike nearly every other accounting professor I've taken, she kept her personal life and experiences both limited and relevant to class material. This may not sound like a big deal, but when professors try to use their life experience as an example in class, they often turn it into a 15-minute discussion about how they missed out on opportunities or helped their clients make a fortune, which means that they're clearly not teaching and are clearly stuck in the past. Not Woo. Woo taught and taught and taught until class was either over or she was done with the day's lecture notes. And when she brought up personal experiences, it always made the topic at hand clearer as it allowed us to see how things were applied in practice.

Professor Woo is awesome. She was tough but fair. She was focused and engaging. She does far more than you can ask for from a professor who has to teach such a tedious subject. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER to anyone who actually wants to learn and receive a good grade. Do the homework, review the lecture notes, and you should have no problem doing well in her class.

Woo is an amazing professor. She organizes her lectures well and has worksheets that you can print out and fill in as she teaches. Her class was asynchronous with live office hours, and she posts the recording of the office hours fast. There were 5 quizzes worth 10% each and a practice set worth 50%. The practice set is a fake business and you have to do the accounting for the month. Start early because it is very detailed and takes time. She offers a few points of extra credit and is overall a great person to take accounting with. The class itself is not that bad if you're willing to put in the time and effort.

Professor Woo is a great lecturer. I really enjoyed listening to her lectures and learning from her. She makes hard concepts easy to understand. She is super organized, and she has her own lecture worksheets that you can printout and follow along. I found this more helpful than generic slides from textbooks that other professors use. There are five quizzes that are worth 10% each, and there is an individual final project that is worth 50% of your grade. Quizzes are NOT easy. You have to invest your time and do homework problems before taking these quizzes. Regarding the final project, get started on it early (like right after chapter 3)! Go to office hours to get help. If you can't make it to office hours, she records and uploads office hour videos. If you watch all her lecture and office hours videos, there is no way that you can get anything less than a B in her class. Professor Woo made accounting fun, and I really enjoyed taking her class.

Woo is SO NICE. For the online quarter, she gave us 5 10-point quizzes and then one assignment and that was the entire grade. The time limit on quizzes was a little tight but her lectures and lecture notes are super clear, especially if you're completely new to accounting. Would highly recommend her class.

Woo is the best professor, giving engaging and well-organized lectures. Her lectures are based on worksheets she designs, which saves an increasing amount of time of writing your notes. It is as if she wrote the notes for you. Her midterms are based on these worksheets, so you should study these for your midterm. Also, do your homework because it helps you with understanding the material. Woo is super nice, so if you need anything, just email her because she gets back to you pretty quickly. Her lectures are not boring at all because she makes it interesting and funny. I took this course in the midst of the crazy pandemic, but seriously compared to my other professors, she was by far the most prepared. She started uploading the recorded videos a week before the quarter began. It was as if she knew what was coming. I would take this course again if I had to. Also, a quick note, get started on the project in advance, it won't hurt you. :)

*Note: COVID-19 Review*

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I took this class because at one point I was debating becoming a BizEcon major (I am not, for reasons unrelated to this class), and because I was trying to determine if accounting is for me, and I think I can safely say that it isn't. That being said, Professor Woo is an excellent teacher and I'm glad I had her for this class. During online learning, lectures were asynchronous and all the videos were available at the beginning of the quarter, so it was easy to pace yourself and possibly get ahead if you were on top of your stuff. Rather than recording single, tiring, hour-long or hour-and-a-half-long lectures, Professor Woo broke them up into several shorter videos around 10-15 minutes each which made them feel much more manageable. The explanations she gives are very clear and concise, and she has fun examples and pneumonics to help you remember concepts. Her lectures essentially went over the material via fill-in-the-blank notes which she posts online and you can fill in and follow alongside her. The completed solutions are also posted, but I suggest you follow along and write the notes in yourself as it's easier to learn the material if you're actually taking part in it. She used the time that would normally be spent in class for office hours and was always very kind and helpful to students with any questions.

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The grading was as follows:
-5 multiple choices quizzes worth 10% each
-The "Practice Set," essentially an assignment where you practice a month's worth of accounting for a fake business, worth 50%
-Extra credit from course evals, 3%

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She lists homework problems from the textbook for each chapter we cover in class. It is optional; it never gets collected. However, she highly suggests you do it as preparation for the quizzes. The amount of homework she lists is very large, so don't worry about doing it all, just a portion of it is enough practice. Some practice from the homework and reviewing your notes is generally pretty good quiz preparation in my opinion, but her notes are more important to pay attention to because the textbook doesn't always present things exactly the same way she does. The quizzes aren't cumulative in a literal sense, but newer chapters do build off previous ones by nature. The quizzes also felt to be getting progressively harder over time, which made sense since the material itself was getting progressively harder.

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Do NOT procrastinate on the practice set! You probably won't have enough knowledge to start on it from the beginning, but at the end of chapter 3, you can at least start entering some journal entries into the general journal. As you go through the lectures/class material, you'll continue to learn new things that apply to the practice set, so do pay attention and make sure you're doing them right. Be careful with it and make sure your debits equal credits/assets equal liabilities and owner's equity and make sure you've left yourself enough time to go back and try to fix things if something is out of balance! As long as you follow what professor Woo explains in her lectures, you should be able to complete it just fine (and it's so satisfying when everything balances at the end).

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Overall I highly recommend Woo for Mgmt 1A. She's very clear in her explanations and is very helpful whenever you have any questions about the material. She's also quite nice to her students; (at least for online learning) she utilized the Anderson School's Accounting Area curve in a way such that nobody could be curved down. Even though I found accounting somewhat difficult and decided it wasn't right for me from this class, I'm so glad I took it with Woo.