Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.17 GPA, 54.7% A/AB (n=481 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.19 GPA, 56.5% A/AB (n=503 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.17 GPA, 51.3% A/AB (n=495 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
Introductory Financial Accounting
Introductory Financial Accounting examines GAAP for financial statement preparation and introduces analysis of financial data for decision-making.
Summary
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Historical reviews of Terry Warfield: Grades depend mostly on exams, though homework and assignments like Wiley Plus and In the News are also required components of the workload.
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Prerequisites
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Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Joanna Wangerin is the current instructor, but reviews focus on historical staff. Erika Proehl was praised for engaging section teaching, while Terry Warfield's lectures were criticized for lacking recorded content and having difficult exams.
ERIKA PROEHL is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
JOANNA WANGERIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
TERRY WARFIELD is recorded teaching in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
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| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 270 / 271 | 15 |
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 262 / 263 | 3 |
| LEC 100 | Online Only | 42 / 50 | 0 |
| DIS 301 | Classroom Instruction | 40 / 40 | 1 |
| DIS 302 | Classroom Instruction | 40 / 40 | 1 |
| DIS 303 | Classroom Instruction | 37 / 37 | 0 |
| DIS 304 | Classroom Instruction | 41 / 41 | 0 |
| DIS 305 | Classroom Instruction | 30 / 30 | 0 |
| DIS 306 | Classroom Instruction | 36 / 37 | 1 |
| DIS 307 | Classroom Instruction | 38 / 38 | 0 |
| DIS 308 | Classroom Instruction | 40 / 40 | 1 |
| DIS 309 | Classroom Instruction | 43 / 43 | 12 |
| DIS 310 | Classroom Instruction | 30 / 30 | 1 |
| DIS 311 | Classroom Instruction | 42 / 42 | 0 |
| DIS 312 | Classroom Instruction | 37 / 37 | 0 |
| DIS 313 | Classroom Instruction | 38 / 38 | 1 |
| DIS 314 | Classroom Instruction | 40 / 40 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
The course relies heavily on exams, with some students finding them difficult and noting a lack of recorded lectures or discussion sections under historical instructor Terry Warfield.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.17 GPA, 54.7% A/AB (n=481 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.19 GPA, 56.5% A/AB (n=503 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.17 GPA, 51.3% A/AB (n=495 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Terry Warfield: Grades depend mostly on exams, though homework and assignments like Wiley Plus and In the News are also required components of the workload.
Historical reviews of Erika Proehl: Students value engaging TA-led sections, with one reviewer noting they learned more from TA Erika Proehl than from the primary lecturer.
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Fall 2026 · Projected
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Approximate 80% prediction interval
About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.
The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.08 GPA average error.
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1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
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Introductory Financial Accounting
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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