Grade: 91. Pretty good subject overall, I actually enjoyed it. Noel Boys is a good lecturer, just make sure you know your commerce terminology or else it'll feel like he's just rapping key words and throwing them together randomly in sentences. I didn't do VCE accounting, but I found that skimming the textbook and understanding what the bolded terms meant was sufficient to be able to access the lecture content. Other than that the concepts are pretty simple though, as you would expect from an accounting subject. Also it seems like Boysy is giving way easier exams now compared to 2021, so don't worry about any stuff you've read about this subject's exam. In my semester it was so easy that I literally finished 30 minutes early lol

My grade was 89 but it was one of my worst non-core experiences ever. The reason why I got this grade was because I was traumatized by Principles of Finance (ended up doing okay but the subject was just so damn hard), so when I did this (because my parents just seemed to want me do all Commerce breadths at the time for whatever reason), I was fully bracing for impact. I hated it, that's for sure. But I think it wasn't terrible, as in the management, specifically the subject coordination and everything were lightyears better than 99% of Computing subjects. Definitely NOT RECOMMENDED as a breadth (same with PoF).

fucking hate accounting why is this core makes me want to kms. Noel boys is ok tho, better than 90% of other lecturers

I would rather drag my dick across the sahara than ever take this subject again. Thank god I got a 50.

Exam was nothing like the practice exams... I have gotten an H1 in IFA1 and can still not complete it with balanced sheets (review written 1 semester after when I discovered this platform).

Noel Boys hates kids. Not sure why he works at a university, especially because he also dislikes helping people and answering questions. The wording in assessments is very confusing on purpose. My parents are both accountants and a lot of times they had no idea what he was asking. Even still, I would've done far worse in this subject if I didn't have my parents to help me. I got good grades throughout the semester but the exam really screwed me over so it knocked me down from a H1 to a H2A. The final was nothing like the practice exams we were given. Thankfully, last semester was Boysie's last sem at the uni. Not sure if he left voluntarily but either way, good riddance. My tutor Shrutika was late every single week and always arrived grumpy. The tutorials were completely useless and instead of teaching us, every 5 minutes she would say to "take a few minutes to discuss with a friend." The tutorial was an hour and a half but it may as well've been an hour (or less) like other classes because we started late and ended early every time. Unfortunately attendance was marked otherwise I wouldn't have gone at all. Giving this subject 2 stars instead of 1 because I actually like math so there is hope for the future now that Noel Boys is gone. Glad to be done with this subject.

I have no idea why, but this subject deliberately does not prepare you for the final exam. If you didn't do accounting in high school and you want to get a H1, I'd recommend trying to find a real past exam (the practice exams given are ten times easier, and take less than half the time to complete), or even using past Accounting and Finance ATAR exams from SCSA to study - I wish I could have done that, because I had assumed there was no way the exam would be that much of a surprise and people were just lazy. I still got a H1, mostly because I did well in Accounting and Finance VCE. Noel Boys is also really condescending and seems to get very easily annoyed at having to help students. He would post long rants on announcements basically calling us all stupid for having admin questions - one of the rants were actually because he had made a mistake on an assignment and people were contacting him about it to check what that meant. If the subject actually taught well what was on the exam, I'd give it 4 stars because it's all important knowledge that sets the foundation for any commerce major.

The final exam is ridiculously difficult. Prepare well

Exam was the most difficult part of the subject. Weekly content and Assignments were fair. MCQs in the exam were not really MCQS. Supposedly there are 80 MCQS, but its like 40 MCQS and 40 questions that had a blank space to write your calculated number. Exam was very different from the questions given in the sample exams.

Concepts in the practice exam were comprehensible, just like the questions in the lecture/tutorial. However, the terms used in the final exam (which takes up 70% of the grade) were very unfamiliar.... making the test unnecessarily difficult? Practice questions should be at a similar level to the final one