Reviews of professor Akbar Safari

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You basically have to teach yourself. Classes are just him reading some of each PPT. A lot of homework that is never reviewed. Weekly quizzes on each chapter. Safari is not accommodating and makes class weird. The only pro is that he gave us the topic of exam questions.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Torn between 2 and 3 stars for this one. I didn't mind him or his teaching style, but as others have said, the class is heavily self-taught. All the homework is due online before the lecture, and you need to understand the material well in order to complete it. This made the lectures redundant, because they covered nearly identical information.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had 201B with Prof Akbari. Great Lecture He makes the material easy to understand. He cares so much about his students and willing everyone to succeed. Read powerpoint and practice the sample exercises he offers you will be fine Participation matter in this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took accounting 302 with professor Safri Such a great professor Super cleared lecture The course is hard by itself but he makes it easy to understand You will be fine if you follow his direction read PowerPoint and practice the examples he solves in the class You will get credit for participating in the class 100 percent recommend him.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Safari means well, but his lectures are just him reading out textbook problems to us AFTER we teach ourselves how to do the homework because he makes it due before the next class. Also, he assigns an insane amount of homework that feels like busy work at best - felt like a huge waste of time. Seems like a nice guy though.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Safari is a very nice professor, his grading is divided into: 15% participation, 5% case study (super easy), 10% HW (from Pearson, hard and time consuming), 20% exam 1, 20% exam 2, 30% final exam (cumulative). He lets you have formula sheet which is awesome so you can focus more toward learning the theory instead of memorizing everything

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do not take him. He doesn't care about the students, just the paycheck. He is extremely lazy and unprofessional + when we tried to raise concerns about Proctorio or HW he just brushed it off and blamed it on the department even though other acct profs were accommodating to their students. Consider another prof or taking this course at a CC tbh.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Read the book if you need to thoroughly understand everything, but the concept videos basically summarize the whole chapter, so I would recommend to focus on watching those (they're part of HW). For exams, I would recommend to practice the foundational 15 from the text book & to focus on the equations. I would take this class again and study harder

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Formula sheets allowed at least in the beginning. Just read the book, take notes, try hard and you'll exceed my grade greatly! Also the study guides and online quizzes help so use that as super supplementary review!! :)