Reviews of professor Allison Kays

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor is nice and enthusiastic, explains concepts very well, class is very helpful for business, class recordings are posted. Case studies (3x) are in groups but take lots of time and grading criteria is often unclear, tests (2x) are NOT EASY, do-able with SIGNIFICANT review. Besides that, grading criteria is generous, final can replace midterm

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She cares about her students, but her grading criteria is just annoying. She does not want correct answers, she just wants to see exactly what she was thinking when she looked at a question. Because the class is case study-heavy, this becomes a real problem as most of my time went into understanding what I did wrong. Mor study hours than any class

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While Kays is a wonderful teacher the material gets to be very hard and while this may not be her fault it does not help with the tough grading of case studies and the final. Once behind the curve it is hard to recover.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Kays, although a teaching a challenging course, is really caring. Case studies can be time-consuming, but not terribly difficult. Getting an A is possible, as long as you go to office hours and review the material. Going to lectures is helpful, but not necessarily imperative in doing well in the case studies.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is not as hard as people lead you to assume, and as long as you pay attention to lectures and do the homework, the case studies are reasonable and there is no need for the reading. The information learned is invaluable to the professional world and Professor Kays is overall a great person and teacher.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Stay Away

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Kays is a great person, super smart, and really helpful. Case studies are crazy hard though. Even with office hours, these case studies consume almost all of your time for the week that you work on it. Her grading criteria is extremely tedious and she will take off points for the smallest of errors. Not worth the grind

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Kays is great! She's very kind, hosts lots of OH, and makes dry material interesting. The course is well organized and every assignment will actually help you understand the material better. Cases are much easier if you attend OH. Reviewing slides/worksheets is key for the exams. Course changed this year so cases are shorter and she now has exams

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Extremely hard to follow class. There should be a prior rudimentary course like a 101 for accounting. Tough grader, and curve did not help. I would go to both her and TA office hours and leave even more confused. Nice professor, much hard material, and tough grader.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Super hard teacher, don't recommend. Tough grader, not sure if she's gotten a bit easier with the grading.