Robert Widman - Brooklyn College

Professor: Robert Widman

Department: Accounting

College: Brooklyn College

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ACCOUNTING2001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Amazing class. Do your homework and practice solving problems and you'll be fine. Will definitely take again.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ACCOUNTING2001
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Knows his material well. Gives large curves on his tests in order that students will do well. Do the Connect homework and the review questions it counts towards your grade. Read the book and study for tests you should do well. Ask questions. No group projects. Nice professor.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ACCOUNTING2001
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I recommend him everybody, only thing do not skip the class, best luck

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ACCT2001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Grade is based off two test! The connect system really helps you learn. Test are hard you gotta sit and study and he curves by a lot like 20 points . Professor is really sweet and does a good job teaching. Classes are mostly just solving problems from the textbook. The textbook is your new best friend

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ACCT2001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Best suited for Accounting majors but you may have a hard time if you're not. He does know the topic well but he will not write everything on the board besides numbers so you may not know what is going on. The test can be tricky since it applies a lot of thinking. Will definitely answer to your questions so ask a lot and can be extremely helpful.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ACCOUNTING2001
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Great professor. If you read the book and do the homework this class is an Easy A

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ACCOUNTING2001
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Be prepared to read the textbook and do problems on the connect system. Take advantage of the connect system it has great study resources. Make sure to make study sheets on each chapter so when you study for the midterm and the final it will be easy.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ACCOUNTING2001
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Great professor. Read the book and do connect hill homework, and you'll get A. Two exams, cumulative, 50 questions. And he curves.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ACC1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He's a cool teacher but you definitely need to read the book in order to have confidence going into the exams. He also curves the grades, which is cool. No extra credit tho. Grades are based on HE & 2 exams

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ACCOUNTING1
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

The guy is an absolute legend! Really good teacher and if you go to class and put in the work you'll get an A no doubt. He curves the tests and passes you if you pass one test. An A is really not hard to get in this class, HIGHLY RECCOMEND!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ACCT2001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Very hard accounting class. I'm good at math and calculations are easy, but the concepts are soooo hard to understand. 1/10 would not recommend.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ACCT3101
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

The course is not an easy one to ace, however, professor Widman does a very good job explaining the material. If you don't skip classes and arrive on time then you'll learn a lot from him. The guy is experienced in his field and knows what he is talking about.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ACCT30TAX
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Income taxation is a hard class as it is. He gives us plenty of examples on the chapters. concentrate on those and you will be fine. Exams are "open book" but you need to study the materials.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ACCT3101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

The BEST. I don't know what I would have been doing in Income Tax class have I a taken a different professor. Explains new material on examples, and trust me, this is the only way to understand taxes. Concentrate on the topics he covers in class and you'll do go on exam. Includes a few tricky questions, just read it carefully. Does HW for you!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ACCOUNTING2001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

The semester just began and I'm already regretting taking this class. Having a tutor helps a lot. Expect to be reading your textbook.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ACC3011
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

nice guy he does exercises in class, if you have a question he will answer it the tests are a different matter he puts questions he only briefly talked about in class expects you to know them. i asked him if i should focus on the exercises in class, he told me focus on the everything,which for acct 3011 is a lot. overall a tough class

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ACCT3101
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Widman, the oasis you need in Accounting. He turns complicated ideas into easy to understand facts. He makes credits and debits seem like credits and credits. Widman once took a 4000 line item spreadsheet and turned it into gold, a true alchemist. If I had to do it all over I'd take Widman 3 times a day, but only 2 days a week.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ACCT3101
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Finally a class at BK college where you actually learn something. Go to class and and re-do all the problems he gives you in class. Do not miss any classes! His exams are long and open book, but the questions are almost identical to what he does in class. His main goal is to give you a general understanding of tax, not fail you.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: INCOMETAX
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Widman is top tier at BC. I've had great teachers at brooklyn and some duds- this guy knows his stuff. Go to class and you'll learn exactly what you need to know to pass the exams- Tax Accounting is not easy or exciting, but Widman knows how to teach it- he's funny,so class is not as boring as accounting with some other Profs.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: TAX3101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Extremely hard course.His exams are open book,but it doesn't help bc there are 45-50 mc quests. Finish the test asap, and then,go to the book. You will need to prepare a bunch of tables which are necessary for a test. You'll have to read some chapters for a few times, so if you have other difficult classes, don't take it.1 Midt+Tax Ret Projct+Final