Well, at last I've finished my "accounting for non-accounting managers" online course (I refuse to give it capital letters, this course has quite enough self-importance as it is). I have to say that I am really glad to have got to the end. This course has followed me through living in three countries, to say nothing of half-way round the world. It has done it's job of giving me real information about accounting I could not have easily found elsewhere, and it's secondary job of warding off insomnia.
As you may have gathered, I have a love-hate relationship with this online course. I could never have found the time or the resources to study this in any other way, and I am really pleased that I could study online. On the other hand, there were times when it was a millstone round my neck; something I could not leave behind no matter how much I wanted to. I grew to endow it with a personality of it's own. It became very similar to one of my childhood teachers, who was very conscientious, and actually very caring, but who believed in strong love - she terrified me much of the time. However, I thrived in her classes, and came out with straight As.
Now I've finished, I find that I'm using the materials as reference. This is really really useful, and one of the benefits of an online course in that the materials are so thorough and I know them so well that it is the easiest thing imaginable to simply check information. So I have double the money's worth.
# posted by Mary @ 4:52 PM
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