I had to register tonight on a new student portal at Ashford
University. The old one was pretty cool but nothing to
really write home about. It was kind of
like something that Southwestern College
had, basically it had my grades, my schedule, finances, GPA, next scheduled
course, etc. The new Ashford portal has
pretty much all of the same stuff, even the little graphic display bar graph
which shows the student how far they have gone; only here everything is a lot
slicker. The outlay is better, it’s
colorful and everything is pretty easy to find, all in all I’m pretty
impressed.
I also have received my grades for week 2, so far so good as
I’ve still got an “A” for the course but I’m still adjusting a little bit to
the instructor’s preferences though. I
was gigged for not providing a reference page for a case study, even though I
really didn’t use outside sources and answered the questions from the text but
strictly speaking I guess I should have referenced the textbook. The course is going well and I’ve already received
the registration date for my next course which is typical as this is week 3
already. Wow, halfway done already and
it feels like I just started. And for
those keeping score, the GPA is still on track for a 4.0 barring any unforeseen
ugliness, so cross your fingers.
I need to register and enroll for my first LSU class
tomorrow so I guess I’m about to find out how easy it is to have transcripts
forwarded from Ashford University to somewhere else. Hopefully that goes well, as of now even
though my application has been approved I still need to have the prerequisite
courses transferred/recognized, otherwise it’ll tack on two more courses on a 5
class certificate program, that’s over ½ of a masters degree…if these were
masters level courses. They may as well
be though; after all they are in my weakest area of business so it’s guaranteed
to be an uphill climb.
To brush up on my accounting though I purchased Teach
Yourself Accounting in 24 Hours, this is a very simplified basic accounting
book that’s actually not half bad. Also
I purchased the Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade
Stand. I know what you’re thinking,
these are very, very basic books, but really there’s more to them then you may
guess. Even though I made an “A” in
Managerial Accounting and Managerial Finance, it was like trying to get a drink
of water from a fire hydrant, possible but quick and messy. This material should refresh my memory a
little and get me back into a number systems type of thinking in reading and
preparing various financial reports, etc.
I’ll let you all know how it goes with a book review or two. Hey if nothing else, I’ve still got my
Portable MBA in Accounting and Finance, already a book that I highly, highly
recommend.