I just expect you to fit in these other activities around your class work. This expectation is identical to what your future employers will expect of you. I have this same expectation. Consequently, you should have learned certain material in that class that I should not have to cover in detail in this course. Since you should have already learned this material, I do not plan to spend much time covering it again.
Students usually perceive accounting to be a series of disjointed rules and procedures.
Further students usually believe that there is very little overlap between accounting issues, so the only way to learn all the different rules and procedures is memorize rules and procedures. I honestly believe that if you learn several broad general rules and concepts, you can logically figure out a majority of the most important rules and procedures. Taking this approach will be a benefit in at least four ways. First, you will have a better understanding of accounting. Third, I suspect that learning general rules and concepts and then using analytical skills will take less study time than memorizing detailed rules and procedures.