Seminar in Accounting Research

Seminar in Accounting Research provides tools for consuming and synthesizing accounting research to identify important questions and conduct research.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Emily Griffith3.7/5

Summary

1 / 2

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Discuss scientific method as it is applied to accounting research.

  • Acquire background in current accounting research and critical analysis.

  • Recognize and apply prevailing practices and expectations in accounting academia with respect to conducting accounting research

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

Declared in Business PHD

  • Declared in Business PHD
ACCTIS 971

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree
  • Declared in Business PHD

Professors

Spring 2027
Adjusted rating
RMP difficulty
captured reviews
About this rating

Raw average: 5.00/5 from 1 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.

RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.

No course-specific feedback yet.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

EMILY GRIFFITH is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2025. 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

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 120

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

Meeting source records

Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Scientific method applied to accounting research.
  • Synthesizing accounting research to identify research questions.
  • Prevailing practices and expectations in accounting academia.

Skills

  • Discuss the application of the scientific method to accounting research.
  • Gain background in current accounting research and develop critical analysis skills.
  • Recognize and apply prevailing academic practices and expectations for conducting accounting research.

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

Grades over time

Through Fall 2025

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Selected offering source records
ACCTIS 971 · Spring 2027

Seminar in Accounting Research

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records
[
  {
    "run_id": "20261014T203208-0851c9a1",
    "semester": "1274",
    "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1274:232:003037",
    "course_id": "ACCTIS 971",
    "course_uid": "course_1928d4a42dc63717486143ee",
    "term_id": "1274",
    "source_course_id": "003037",
    "source_subject_id": "232",
    "title": "Seminar in Accounting Research",
    "credits_min": 3,
    "credits_max": 3,
    "typically_offered": "Occasionally"
  }
]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews

No records available.

Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Model & dataset provenance
{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
  "model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
  "task_version": "17",
  "output_id": "2fc4eb7ae643291525802de01331fd622f88a467fffd421a3c16f04d175fa0f0",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}