Lecture is useless, extremely monotonic, and manages to make accounting even more boring. He writes his tests the night before so its unpredictable. Still, it makes you work harder and that got me an A in the class by getting the highest score on the final. Don't give up and you should be fine.
He was very clear, and fair. I've heard interesting reviews about him during the year, but this class was so easy. Curved like all the classes but if you pay attention in class, and do the hw this class is cake. Easiest upper division accounting class I've taken
Avoid Harmon and his SBP class. The only SBP class that assigns homework. Try to make everyone participate, have to tell ethical Dilemma, just a bunch of philosophy on ethics, no answers just questions, and he always seems angry and irritated. No study during lecture policy too
Course wasn't difficult, but the readings and homework require some time(2-5 hrs). How to do well: read the text over and over, take practice MC test on Wiley before quizzes, be punctual with homework(find HW partner), master examples he goes over in class, do additional problems for practice. Non-cumulative(post midterm material is more difficult)
DON'T DO IT!!!! GREAT INFO BUT WILL DRAIN YOU OF ALL BRAINPOWER AND ENERGY!!!!!!!!! DO NOT TAKE 139 WITH HARMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First half of the class is pretty easy, explains the subject reasonably well and midterm isn't too bad. Second half of the class...good god, doesnt explain homeworks properly before assigning, contradicts textbook 50% of the time, has multiple wrong answers on the homework for the most confusing part of the class (which is 50% of final).
I liked Harmon in 3B and 136A, but this class was a mess-- disorganized and hard to follow during class, unapproachable and aloof outside of class. What he taught in class was often different from what the book said. Worse still, independent googling of these discrepancies often resulted in a third answer as unhelpful as the rest. Take at own risk.
Does not really summarize or explain anything. Has a habit of just "dumping" information with no regard for discerning any sense of priority. Going to his class is like being self taught without any guidance.
He's friendlier in class than in office hours. A little too sarcastic for my taste.
While the class material and class in general was not difficult, he himself was very rude and not approachable. Section is mandatory for this class and there is a very easy TA graded project that you work on throughout the quarter. Made tests seem more difficult more stressful than they were because of all of the procedures to prevent cheating.
He knows what he's teaching, so it's not that he's a bad professor, he just makes his tests so hard now! My friend took the class last quarter and said it was mainly mc. That is no longer the case. He has about 20 T/F and about 12 short answers. Great guy, funny, not hard to look at...I just wish he was an easier test-maker/grader.
Professor Harmon is one of my favorite teachers at UCSB. His tests can be tricky but as long as you go to lecture and do the Wileyplus you can get at least a B+. He gets a lot of his short answer problems directly from the homework and also tells stories in class to keep it interesting. Would definitely recommend Harmon.
Had an A- before the final. Got a 96 on the final. Get a B+ in the class. He tells me I needed 20 points more to get to the next highest grade (A-). I lost less than 20 points on the final. Had I gotten 100% on the final I still would have ended up with a lower grade than before. WORST PROFESSOR IN THE ECON DEPARTMENT. Also, what person below said.
Honestly can say I liked him till I got my grade back. Asked him IN CLASS before the final if grading will be on points like the syllabus, he said yes... He then, after grading the final he decided to make take-home, decided grades were too high and curved everyone DOWN! So pissed Goodbye A because of his inconsistencies
Love Harmon! NOt too hard of a class pretty straight forward
Great Professor. Fairly easy class as long as you put in time. Multiple Choice counts for a big chunk of test. The best way to do well in that is simply read the chapters throughly. Working out part of test is just like class examples.
Simply reading off slides during lecture isn't effective in teaching accounting. WileyPlus homework didn't help much in preparing for the midterm. Don't recommend this Professor.
Really great professor. He's funny and enthusiastic about teaching. His tests are fair and lets you know what's going to be one them beforehand. Wileyplus hw due every lecture are easy points as well as the weekly assignments for section.
Always went to his office hours and they were really helpful. Multiple choice on the tests were pretty difficult. Final had a lot of material that was unexpected. Overall, helpful and nice... easy B
He is a good teacher, although he can be slow on going over the material. Easy class if you focus thoroughly on what he expects you to know. Read wiley more than once and you can easily grasp everything. His honors section is an easy A and it's nothing relating to accounting - all about personal finance and life lessons. Quite interesting too.
All he does in class is read off slides which isn't effective in teaching a class on accounting. Midterm was difficult. Don't recommend, but problem is he's the only professor that teaches 3b.
It's very simple: If becoming a CPA is not your ulitmate goal, then don't take this class. Those of you who want to become CPAs and have complained about this class need to suck it up. If you want professors to hold your hand throughout your entire college career consider switching into comm or soc because this is not the place for you.
I like Harmon as a person (and for Econ 3b) but for 139, he kinda sucked. He was unorganized, used a book that was full of incorrect information, inconsiderate in posting assignments in a timely fashion, and grading didn't seem to reflect the work contributed or knowledge gained. There are 2 midterms that were hard and had too much for the time all
The homework he gave was ridiculous. He made us do the homework even before we had the class!!That also counts into your final grade.First mid term questions were really difficult addition with short time. Second mid term we been told the format is multiple choice on the day of exam.He was confirmed before that there would be work sheet questions!
