Professor in a Box - Financial Accounting, taught and produced by Michael Licata, is an accounting curriculum specifically produced for homeschooled students. Licata, who holds a PhD and is a college professor, wanted to make available to homeschoolers a vigorous college level accounting course, that students with average high school (basic algebra) math ability would be able to take and understand. Completion of this course would adequately prepare a student to take the accounting Clep test for college credit.
Everything you need is provided in the box. The program needs to be viewed on a PC with CD-ROM and you need Adobe to open the PDF files on the Cd's. There is one instructor CD and three student CDs. There are three suggested paths this course can take, depending on how quickly you need to do it. Suggestions are given for completing this course in 9 (3 lessons a week), 14, and 28 weeks.
The lesson structure is fairly simple: watch the lecture, do the homework problems (takes a approx. 2 hours to complete spread out over a few days,) check work, and work on exams if necessary.
The lessons are in flash player which is most PCs carry. You listen to Professor Licata while the screen's flash automatically. You have the ability to also print screens as desired.
The lessons we listened to were very informative. My son and I learned a lot from the lessons we completed. There is more to accounting then just math problems. Accounting is necessary for anyone entering any business field or thinking of the starting their own business.
There is no additional textbook, so all the info is in the flash video. There is a printable list of key terms and you can print out the problems and and solutions if you want to for each lesson. Spread sheets are also available for free in Excel, on the Professor in a Box website, that accompany the lessons.
These course is vigorous as the author states, however, even with a basic math background, I was easily able to understand the program and found it very helpful.
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