Reviews of professor Allison Kays

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
kays is a great person and teacher. the class is a tone of work though. case studies requires you go to go multiple office hours. marking grid doesn't exist and yet marks very tough. there's a tone of content to learn. be prepared to do a tone of study. it isn't an easy A.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Excellent professor but it is a rather challenging class so effort is required.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very clear grading criteria. The class was a bit difficult but meeting with the professor and TA's outside of class time helped a lot. Case studies were also a bit hard if you don't know your group members as well. Overall enjoyable class and Professor Kays helped a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kays as a professor is very good. She's able to breakdown complex accounting concepts and make them understandable and applicable. The issue is with her grading standards. I personally found that despite doing very well on exams, I was never able to do well on the case studies, despite going to office hours. Great teacher, tough grader.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Kays is one of the most knowledgeable professors I've come across in any field. The class is a lot of work, isn't super intuitive, but I really think that's the nature of the subject. Kays is helpful, insightful, and does what she can to make the class more accessible. If you want to do Accounting as your area depth, take Kays.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Kays is a very sweet woman but case studies were overall confusing and sometimes what she wants is unclear. There is no criteria of what she is looking for until after the grades are posted and median grades of case studies fall between 81-85%. Make sure you pay attention in class, GO TO OFFICE HOURS, and take notes carefully.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Kays is great, amazing lecturer even though the material gets incredibly dry at times. The case studies are very time consuming, but not as hard as people make them sound. Stay on top of the content, take good notes (classes are fast, so I would rewatch lectures), start working on the case asap, and GO TO OFFICE HOURS, and you will do well.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The case studies are VERY DOABLE if you go to office hours routinely and learn from previous mistakes. Most complaints arise from the challenging nature of ACT 200 but Professor Kays made it much more straightforward. The grading criteria are clear; if the final case is done well, the grade could replace the lowest midterm.