Taking intermediate accounting, tax, and cost accounting all at once
Stacking demanding accounting classes like Intermediate and Cost in the same semester creates a brutal workload filled with dense, confusing textbooks. This overwhelming combination leaves students mentally exhausted and struggling to keep up with the sheer volume of difficult material.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Taking easy online general education electives for balance
- 2Swapping out the tax class if schedule flexibility allows
- 3focusing heavily on foundational concepts like journal entries
- 4working part-time as a bookkeeper to gain real-world application
- 5seeking tutoring or extra study sessions
- 6accepting lower passing grades since GPA does not matter after graduation
- 7leaving for another school
- 8checking union contract requirements
- 9take summer courses instead of overloading credits in a single semester
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m a bit frustrated this year because the way my program was done I have four classes and 25 teaching periods of class.”source ↗
“It’s upsetting that some of us get assigned more classes than others.”source ↗
“I have days with several periods of teaching in a row while other colleagues have maybe 1 or 2 teaching periods followed by something like hall duty or bathroom duty.”source ↗
“I can spend 8 hours a day studying and finally start understanding something, but the next week we're already on a completely new lesson.”source ↗
“Then I'm trying to learn the new material while still catching up on the last one.”source ↗
“I took Internediate 2 and cost in the same semester as well and it was brutal.”source ↗
“I have PTSD from all those classes”source ↗
“I’m thinking of applying to upcoming audit and tax winter internships but unsure since I’ll need to overload (around 23 credits) a semester in order to graduate on time.”source ↗
“Personally I hated cost accounting because I couldn't wrap my head around the shitty text book I got.”source ↗
“23 credits? my school capped overloads at 18 and you needed a signiture from the dean to go over, and that man was never in his office. i spent like three weeks trying to catch him between classes”source ↗
“I struggled with this at a previous school.”source ↗
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