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Brian Jefferson BMGT323 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/07/2024	Highly recommend taking it with Jefferson ESPECIALLY if you dislike tax. He makes the content very engaging and offers many opportunities to succeed whether through practice, extra credit, and additional review. He is an extremely personable and witty guy who makes boring topics interesting. He has been my favorite professor so far!
Brian Jefferson BMGT323 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/07/2024	He is such an awesome professor and he knows the material really well. He is very engaging and is very helpful with difficult materials. It is a lot of concepts and topics, but he really helps make the course load manageable.
Jeffrey Milton BMGT323 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/10/2024	I ended with an A- in this class but for a while I was expecting a B. First 2 exams are hard, 2nd is much harder than first so study well for the first. Quizzes can be a little tricky too because there are random facts from the textbook you must know. Everything is open note which is great but you need to know what chapter things are in. Make sure to go to every class because extra credit is given and it boosted my grade at the end.
Brian Jefferson BMGT323 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/22/2023	Amazing professor who cares about his student
Jeffrey Milton BMGT323 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2022	Prof. Milton is a really cool guy, he has a lot of life stories as he's been in pretty much every industry under the sun. Been in a lot of director, CEO type spots. Offers a good amount of extra credit, be sure to show up to class as he takes attendance, plus class is where you'll see the extra credit opportunities. Exams and quizzes are open-book, open-note, if you study just a little bit and know how to search the index of the book and skim the chapters, you should be good to go to get an 80+ on each exam. Homeworks are easy 100s if you put the time into them as it's "do until you get it right". Lecturing could be very boring though, often felt like droning on and on. And yeah, the cold calling sucks. It does keep you on your toes though.. because nothing's worse than zoning out and all of a sudden he's asking you about filing statuses.
Jeffrey Milton BMGT323 Anonymous 11/16/2022	The lectures are a little boring but he's a nice guy. His lectures are like conversations and he'll ask you questions you don't know how to answer, but just participate and guess and you'll be fine. You can't be afraid of sounding a little stupid if you get the question wrong. HWs are a big part of the grade and exams are open book (you'll need to buy a physical version of the book).
Leslie Mostow BMGT323 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/04/2022	Pretty solid professor. Class is pretty straightforward and consists of just lecturing from the slides. The class is heavily based on the textbook just because you can't really memorize tax, so you just look up whatever you need to know. That being said make sure to read the chapter at least once so you know where to look. Assignments are just connect smartbook and connect HW assignments.
Jeffrey Milton BMGT323 Anonymous 11/21/2015	I had Milton for 323 and 417, and contrary to the one review on this website, I thought he was great. Milton is a slow talker and he is not that interesting, but I still think he is a great professor as a whole. Use of class time: He spends class going through the publishers power points, which have example problems in them, and if you pay attention you will learn from his lectures. Usually the class before and exam we will play jeopardy. Homework: For homework, he uses McGrawhill Connect. You will have one assignment every week, they are not long and are not too hard. You also get unlimited tries, so everyone should be able to get 100%. Homework is 30% of your grade which is great. Textbook: This is one of those classes where you should read the textbook (about 1 chapter a week). The exams are open book, and it is much easier to take advantage of that if you have read the book and can navigate it easily. Quizzes: We did not have quizzes for 323, but we did for 417. They are all multiple choice and open book/notes. Exams: The exams are all multiple choice and open book/ notes. They are very fair, and Milton gives more than enough time for exams and quizzes. Also he often recycles quiz and jeopardy questions for exams.
Leslie Mostow BMGT323 Anonymous 05/06/2015	Do not take this class with this professor- Leslie Mostow. He doesn't teach anything. TA does most of the work. TA made up questions for midterms and final. TA graded exams and submitted grades. TA prepare tax project. TA worked out problems in class. TA answered emails and discussion. The professor was pretty much let TA do whatever in class. Even though the professor lectured but TA gave exams so things were like: teach A, test B... didn't work out for students. We (me and other classmates) dont even know what the professor do in the class. He does not teach anything, You are on your own 99% of the time. Almost forget to mention, the 1st midterm was given during the 2nd week of the semester, so be prepare to fail if you want this kind of challenge!
Leslie Mostow BMGT323 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/06/2015	Professor Mostow is a pretty funny and interesting guy. The material is not by any means easy, but the class is structured well enough that you can learn a lot and do well. You have homework on Connect practically every week and in the end there is a tax project, which is very good to put into practice what you've learned. He grades the project pretty leniently. The exams (4) are not easy, but not overly difficult, and he'll be sure to tell you in advance what's going to be on it during the review sessions right before the exam. In class, he basically just reads of the power points and does some exercises, so it's not the most interesting thing, but it's still useful to attend. Overall, I really enjoyed taking this class with this professor, and I think you will also if you decide to take it.
Leslie Mostow BMGT323 Expecting an A+ clue 01/27/2014	Professor Mostow was a pretty funny and interesting teacher, although the class material was a bit dry. The class was really structured, with homework every week, so if you studied on your own you might not have to pay that much attention in class. I would definitely pay attention during the class period right before the exams because he pretty much goes through the exam questions and tells you what topics to study. He also gave a lot of opportunities for extra credit and graded the final project very, very leniently. Overall, he wasn't an overly difficult professor, and he made the class interesting and pretty easy to do well in.
Jeffrey Milton BMGT323 Anonymous 11/11/2013	He is just about the worst teacher at the Smith School. Boring like hell! I challenge people to stay awake in his class, let alone learn something.
Leslie Mostow BMGT323 Expecting an A+ sukhenkoy1990 01/25/2012	I have had Professor Mostow for two different courses (BMGT323 and BMGT310), and his teaching style was very similar for both courses. He typically reads off of the PowerPoint presentations that are provided to him by the book publisher in one lecture, and does practice problems in the next lecture. He does not like to use the board to explain problems, but is friendly in trying to help students with any questions. I did not like his teaching style, but if you read the book and do the homework, you should be fine. His review sessions before the exams go over exactly what you need to know, so make sure you go to reviews. If the class did not have any points awarded for attendance, I would have only showed up for the review sessions. Overall, it is clear that he is extremely knowledgeable in the field of accounting, but I felt that he was not particularly good in conveying his knowledge to the class effectively. If you are able to learn from the book, you will do fine in his class. If not, I would suggest taking this class with another professor.
Leslie Mostow BMGT323 Expecting an A KG 12/16/2011	Professor is the best teacher I ever met!!! Very funny guy and we end up being very good friend! Let's put aside all the other good things about him, just one thing you need to know about his class: Make sure you go to the class right before midterms and the final, then you will get something.... that is extremely useful for your exams! Haha, just go to the review class before his exams, you will know what I mean! Take his class!!!!!
Eugene Cantor BMGT323 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/15/2010	This class is one of my favorite Accounting classes in CP! For a three hour class, he was really entertaining! On top of that you got free cookies :D. Grades are based on 10% In class Assignments 30% Midterm 30% Final 30% Simulation Our Umd understates the number of A's he gives out, its closer to 55%, which is 9% more than Pfeiffer. You will do a much better job on the CPA if you take him over Pfeiffer. I learned a lot from this class, but the exams arent easy.

Brian Jefferson
BMGT323

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/07/2024

Highly recommend taking it with Jefferson ESPECIALLY if you dislike tax. He makes the content very engaging and offers many opportunities to succeed whether through practice, extra credit, and additional review. He is an extremely personable and witty guy who makes boring topics interesting. He has been my favorite professor so far!

Brian Jefferson
BMGT323

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/07/2024

He is such an awesome professor and he knows the material really well. He is very engaging and is very helpful with difficult materials. It is a lot of concepts and topics, but he really helps make the course load manageable.

Jeffrey Milton
BMGT323

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
04/10/2024

I ended with an A- in this class but for a while I was expecting a B. First 2 exams are hard, 2nd is much harder than first so study well for the first. Quizzes can be a little tricky too because there are random facts from the textbook you must know. Everything is open note which is great but you need to know what chapter things are in. Make sure to go to every class because extra credit is given and it boosted my grade at the end.

Brian Jefferson
BMGT323

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/22/2023

Amazing professor who cares about his student

Jeffrey Milton
BMGT323

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/22/2022

Prof. Milton is a really cool guy, he has a lot of life stories as he's been in pretty much every industry under the sun. Been in a lot of director, CEO type spots. Offers a good amount of extra credit, be sure to show up to class as he takes attendance, plus class is where you'll see the extra credit opportunities. Exams and quizzes are open-book, open-note, if you study just a little bit and know how to search the index of the book and skim the chapters, you should be good to go to get an 80+ on each exam. Homeworks are easy 100s if you put the time into them as it's "do until you get it right". Lecturing could be very boring though, often felt like droning on and on. And yeah, the cold calling sucks. It does keep you on your toes though.. because nothing's worse than zoning out and all of a sudden he's asking you about filing statuses.

Jeffrey Milton
BMGT323

Anonymous
11/16/2022

The lectures are a little boring but he's a nice guy. His lectures are like conversations and he'll ask you questions you don't know how to answer, but just participate and guess and you'll be fine. You can't be afraid of sounding a little stupid if you get the question wrong. HWs are a big part of the grade and exams are open book (you'll need to buy a physical version of the book).

Leslie Mostow
BMGT323

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/04/2022

Pretty solid professor. Class is pretty straightforward and consists of just lecturing from the slides. The class is heavily based on the textbook just because you can't really memorize tax, so you just look up whatever you need to know. That being said make sure to read the chapter at least once so you know where to look. Assignments are just connect smartbook and connect HW assignments.

Jeffrey Milton
BMGT323

Anonymous
11/21/2015

I had Milton for 323 and 417, and contrary to the one review on this website, I thought he was great. Milton is a slow talker and he is not that interesting, but I still think he is a great professor as a whole. Use of class time: He spends class going through the publishers power points, which have example problems in them, and if you pay attention you will learn from his lectures. Usually the class before and exam we will play jeopardy. Homework: For homework, he uses McGrawhill Connect. You will have one assignment every week, they are not long and are not too hard. You also get unlimited tries, so everyone should be able to get 100%. Homework is 30% of your grade which is great. Textbook: This is one of those classes where you should read the textbook (about 1 chapter a week). The exams are open book, and it is much easier to take advantage of that if you have read the book and can navigate it easily. Quizzes: We did not have quizzes for 323, but we did for 417. They are all multiple choice and open book/notes. Exams: The exams are all multiple choice and open book/ notes. They are very fair, and Milton gives more than enough time for exams and quizzes. Also he often recycles quiz and jeopardy questions for exams.

Leslie Mostow
BMGT323

Anonymous
05/06/2015

Do not take this class with this professor- Leslie Mostow. He doesn't teach anything. TA does most of the work. TA made up questions for midterms and final. TA graded exams and submitted grades. TA prepare tax project. TA worked out problems in class. TA answered emails and discussion. The professor was pretty much let TA do whatever in class. Even though the professor lectured but TA gave exams so things were like: teach A, test B... didn't work out for students. We (me and other classmates) dont even know what the professor do in the class. He does not teach anything, You are on your own 99% of the time. Almost forget to mention, the 1st midterm was given during the 2nd week of the semester, so be prepare to fail if you want this kind of challenge!

Leslie Mostow
BMGT323

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/06/2015

Professor Mostow is a pretty funny and interesting guy. The material is not by any means easy, but the class is structured well enough that you can learn a lot and do well. You have homework on Connect practically every week and in the end there is a tax project, which is very good to put into practice what you've learned. He grades the project pretty leniently. The exams (4) are not easy, but not overly difficult, and he'll be sure to tell you in advance what's going to be on it during the review sessions right before the exam. In class, he basically just reads of the power points and does some exercises, so it's not the most interesting thing, but it's still useful to attend. Overall, I really enjoyed taking this class with this professor, and I think you will also if you decide to take it.

Leslie Mostow
BMGT323

Expecting an A+
clue
01/27/2014

Professor Mostow was a pretty funny and interesting teacher, although the class material was a bit dry. The class was really structured, with homework every week, so if you studied on your own you might not have to pay that much attention in class. I would definitely pay attention during the class period right before the exams because he pretty much goes through the exam questions and tells you what topics to study. He also gave a lot of opportunities for extra credit and graded the final project very, very leniently. Overall, he wasn't an overly difficult professor, and he made the class interesting and pretty easy to do well in.

Jeffrey Milton
BMGT323

Anonymous
11/11/2013

He is just about the worst teacher at the Smith School. Boring like hell! I challenge people to stay awake in his class, let alone learn something.

Leslie Mostow
BMGT323

Expecting an A+
sukhenkoy1990
01/25/2012

I have had Professor Mostow for two different courses (BMGT323 and BMGT310), and his teaching style was very similar for both courses. He typically reads off of the PowerPoint presentations that are provided to him by the book publisher in one lecture, and does practice problems in the next lecture. He does not like to use the board to explain problems, but is friendly in trying to help students with any questions. I did not like his teaching style, but if you read the book and do the homework, you should be fine. His review sessions before the exams go over exactly what you need to know, so make sure you go to reviews. If the class did not have any points awarded for attendance, I would have only showed up for the review sessions. Overall, it is clear that he is extremely knowledgeable in the field of accounting, but I felt that he was not particularly good in conveying his knowledge to the class effectively. If you are able to learn from the book, you will do fine in his class. If not, I would suggest taking this class with another professor.

Leslie Mostow
BMGT323

Expecting an A
KG
12/16/2011

Professor is the best teacher I ever met!!! Very funny guy and we end up being very good friend! Let's put aside all the other good things about him, just one thing you need to know about his class: Make sure you go to the class right before midterms and the final, then you will get something.... that is extremely useful for your exams! Haha, just go to the review class before his exams, you will know what I mean! Take his class!!!!!

Eugene Cantor
BMGT323

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/15/2010

This class is one of my favorite Accounting classes in CP! For a three hour class, he was really entertaining! On top of that you got free cookies :D. Grades are based on 10% In class Assignments 30% Midterm 30% Final 30% Simulation Our Umd understates the number of A's he gives out, its closer to 55%, which is 9% more than Pfeiffer. You will do a much better job on the CPA if you take him over Pfeiffer. I learned a lot from this class, but the exams arent easy.

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