Spring 2027

Introductory Financial Accounting

Introductory Financial Accounting covers GAAP for measuring and reporting financial information in key statements and introduces analyzing accounting data for decisions.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Joanna Wangerin3.0/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · Terry Warfield

Students noted that most of the grade was based on exams, which they described as horrible, while other assignments like Wiley Plus homework had less impact.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain the role of financial reporting and accounting reports in making resource allocation decisions.

  • Explain general purpose financial statements of a business from the perspective of the users of those statements.

  • Articulate the business purposes behind economic transactions and basic accounting concepts to determine appropriate accounting treatments for transactions and business.

  • Capture information from economic transactions into accounting systems and fully articulate the impact of those transactions on the business.

  • Compile information in the accounting system to create general purpose financial statements.

  • Analyze the complexity of real world events and apply judgment with respect to accounting measurements and reporting.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Not open to students with credit forACCT I S 300

ACCTIS 100 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Joanna Wangerin

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About this rating

Raw average: 2.69/5 from 49 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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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.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

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

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 2710
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 2710
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 380
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 380
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 309Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 310Classroom Instruction0 / 380
DIS 311Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 312Classroom Instruction0 / 380
DIS 313Classroom Instruction0 / 390
DIS 314Classroom Instruction0 / 390

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Terry Warfield

This course relies heavily on exams for final grades, and students found the assessments challenging despite performing well on homework and assignments.

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

Past student reviews · Terry Warfield

Students noted that most of the grade was based on exams, which they described as horrible, while other assignments like Wiley Plus homework had less impact.

Past student reviews · Erika Proehl, Terry Warfield

Opinions varied on instruction quality; one student found TA sections engaging and effective, while another felt the instructor did little without recorded lectures.

Topics

  • Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
  • Financial Statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flows
  • Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Data

Skills

  • Apply GAAP for measurement and reporting in financial statements
  • Analyze and interpret financial accounting data
  • Record economic transactions in accounting systems

Grades

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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 · 0.14 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 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

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ACCTIS 100 · Spring 2027

Introductory Financial Accounting

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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