They're Teaching Accounting Wrong!

Accounting Is Taught Wrong

When I studied accounting, I'd watch a professor explain something, then I'd try to tackle it on my own and feel completely lost.

I felt like a deer in headlights. A complicated question was coming at me fast, and I'd free with no idea what to do.

The questions had too many moving parts, and I hadn't yet mastered the fundamentals.

This made studying painful and filled me with anxiety. I wasted so much time being miserable.

Worse yet, as soon as I began to grasp a concept, I was forced to move on to a completely different subject.

Why couldn't I just drill the basics of each section to make sure I had mastered them?

How Should Accounting Be Taught?

Too many textbooks focus on covering maximum breadth of understnding rather than mastery of the key subjects. Their authors would make sure they went through every edge case, instead of focusing on the fundamentals. This made no sense! I'd wind up forgeting so many details that I'd hardly use anyway, and be left with a weak understanding of the fundamentals.

Accounting teachers should help students perfect small fundamental skills.

Doing so would have built up my muscle memory, reduced my anxieties, and better prepared me to tackle those big, complicated topics in the future.

This isn't just my theory, Bruce Lee said something similar:

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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