Richard Hermerding

ACCT103 · ACCT203 · BA101B · 4 lifetime ratings

AI rating: 14/100
RMP rating: 1.4/5
Take again: 0%
Difficulty: 4.5

The decision

Avoid if you have another option; expect to teach yourself accounting from the book while .

Best fit · Self Taught ProReads from bookLecture heavy slidesTough graderConfusing homeworkSelf-teach required

Students say real teaching interaction.
, and high fail anxiety.
Nobody in the ; many advise studying alone instead of class.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

18/100

, and students with high GPAs fearing failure make an A extremely hard.

Is the course easy?

BrainBurner

18/100

Difficulty ratings are very high and students say you learn almost nothing from lecture.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

40/100

while others say it is not required.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

8/100

and repeated warnings that class is a waste of time.

Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

18/100

, and high-stakes midterm/final weights dominate feedback.

Format shift

Workload

Heavy

28/100

Online homework, heavy slide lectures, and .

Format shift

Teaching experience

Awful

15/100

Students describe book-reading, board-facing lectures, garbled delivery, and almost no interaction.

Format shift

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

72/100

Midterm and ; and confusing.

Format shift

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

4 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person accounting and business sections are described as and little classroom learning.

Main concern

, and tests without notes make success feel unlikely.

What students said

“He is a but horrible at teaching.”
BA101B

“It's 3 hours of .”
ACCT103

“The entire class is pretty much him going though on average 150-250 slides”
ACCT203

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

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Main concern

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Exam style

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Exams are closed-note, high-stakes, and paired with little useful in-class preparation.

No notes allowedHeavy midterm and finalIn-class tests

Assessment risk

Strict

22/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and make up a large share of the .

No notes allowedMidterm and final heavyIn-class tests

“No work is done in .”
ACCT103

“One mid-term for 25% and one final for 30%.”
BA101B

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice
“The worst class I've experienced in my 3 years. I have a 3.8 GPA (all As with 2 Bs), and I feel like I'm about to fail.”
Voice snapshots generated from 4 uniformly negative in-person reviews on teaching and exams. Credibility rating: Medium.

🎯 Teaching Quality

15/100

“He is a but horrible at teaching.”

🚫 Recommendation

8/100

“Just go home and study on your own, you'll perhaps learn better than wasting your time in class.”

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22/100

“No work is done in .”

😴 Lecture Style

12/100

“It's 3 hours of .”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

horrible at teaching
going though on average 150-250 slides

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

feel like I'm about to fail

Theme 3

💤 About Classroom Energy

Student played games, videos, talked, and close to falling asleep
Boring and reads off the book for everything

Data context

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Lifetime ratings

48/100

Evidence confidence

Four consistently negative in-person reviews across years give a .

Inside 4 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50

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2 out of 52

1 out of 52

Course coverage

BA101B2 reviews

ACCT1031 review

ACCT2031 review

Reported outcomes

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F

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Richard Hermerding

Avoid if you have another option; expect to teach yourself accounting from the book while x x x x x.

Four answers before you build your schedule.

MissionImpossible

BrainBurner

Varies

Avoid

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In person

Online

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🎯 Teaching Quality

🚫 Recommendation

📚 x x

😴 Lecture Style

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

💤 About Classroom Energy

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Quality ratings

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Avoid if you have another option; expect to teach yourself accounting from the book while .

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