I checked my online student portal on the Penn
Foster College
web site today and was surprised and pleased to see that the courses for my
second semester have been posted, and the study guide and textbook for my next
course have already been shipped!
Semester Two of the Marketing program is heavy on accounting
courses. I have five courses coming up
this next semester, for a total of 15 credit hours. Here is what I have ahead of me this
semester:
Financial Accounting
Economics I
Managerial Accounting
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Computers
Financial Accounting includes lessons on The Accounting
Model, Accounting for Assets, Accounting for Liabilities and Owners’ Equity and
Additional Topics in Financial Reporting.
Although there are only four lessons in this course, I noticed the text
book is more than 600 pages long, with plenty of accounting problems throughout. I have to admit, this doesn’t sound like the
most exciting course. In fact, I’m
looking forward to getting to the Introduction to Literature course, and poetry
is not my strong point.
The other courses also have four lessons each, with the
exception of Economics I, which is the longest course, with eight lessons. Since I want to at least start Semester Four
by the end of December, I need to spend no more than four months each on
Semesters Two and Three. That means I
need to complete each course in Semester Two in just over three weeks. So far, it has taken me an average of 8 weeks
to finish each course, studying about two hours per night. Obviously, I will need to spend a lot more
time hitting the books. This could be an
instance in which being in a self-paced course will be to my advantage.
Can I do it? I guess
we’ll find out!