based on your experience, what is the best way of learning advanced accounting topic?
November 16th, 2009 | by admin |how do u learn to do trial balance adjustments very quickly??thanks.
In my experience, the best way to learn something is to teach it! When you explain something to another person, in your own words, it helps get the knowledge really bedded in.
It might seem like a drag to help out a fellow student who is struggling, but it will probably do you a lot of good. Restate the information that you have been given, and reinforce it by choosing examples based on your own experience. For example, describe how accounting practices might be applied within the family business, or an industry that you know well.
This process of changing the teaching material a little is called ‘coding’, and it’s much, much more effective than trying to learn information by rote. Tell stories, draw pictures; even make up silly little songs if that helps you! You can read a dry old textbook until the end of time, but you won’t really master a subject until you do it for yourself… and teaching it to a colleague is the next best thing.
Good luck!
2 Responses to “based on your experience, what is the best way of learning advanced accounting topic?”
By Jack on Nov 16, 2009 | Reply
I learned it by doing a lot of problems.
But first, you have to have a thorough understanding of what’s going on in accounting (i.e. debit accounts vs. credit accounts, revenue recognizing vs. realizing). Then you have to make sense of the problems that need to be adjusted.
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By evodude2001 on Nov 16, 2009 | Reply
In my experience, the best way to learn something is to teach it! When you explain something to another person, in your own words, it helps get the knowledge really bedded in.
It might seem like a drag to help out a fellow student who is struggling, but it will probably do you a lot of good. Restate the information that you have been given, and reinforce it by choosing examples based on your own experience. For example, describe how accounting practices might be applied within the family business, or an industry that you know well.
This process of changing the teaching material a little is called ‘coding’, and it’s much, much more effective than trying to learn information by rote. Tell stories, draw pictures; even make up silly little songs if that helps you! You can read a dry old textbook until the end of time, but you won’t really master a subject until you do it for yourself… and teaching it to a colleague is the next best thing.
Good luck!
References :