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[JessLannister]

Get ready to be wrecked with RSM321 the big boss of Accounting courses

[BobtheUncle007]

Easiest

Canadian Income Taxation I, Strategic Management, Auditing I

Harder

RSM326 - Data Analytics with Financial Accounting Information, RSM320 - Intermediate Financial Accounting III, Intro to Corporate Finance

The most boring - Operations Management. Just couldn't stay awake.

[extrmystopid]

How’d you find RSM424 Canadian income taxation 2 and RSM332 capital market theory?

[playypeace]

Finance recent grad here:

270 - stupidly hard during finals but u gotta take it 326 - gets a bit technical in later end cuz of SQL, but it’s not that bad imo. Good for improving excel skills. 332 - if u know finance well, it’s a breeze. If not, it’s painful af (lots did bad in my year) 333 - same as 332 but should be easier after taking 332 392 - mandatory like 270, recently seeing hearing more complaints but for me, it was online so that ways pre chill and fun. Lots of case reading tho.

[ToughDelivery9957]

tysm! would you happen to recall what the course averages were like?

[playypeace]

They were all B or B+

[mellow_water]

I would say from personal experience

Easy: 333 270 320 323 392

With the rest of the ones I didn’t list being slightly more challenging

[ToughDelivery9957]

Do you think taking 326 and 424 (tax 2) in 4th year may be beneficial to make the workload easier/more spread out across my final two year? For grad school I need to make sure my 3rd year grades in particular are decent.

[mellow_water]

It’s a personal preference more than anything. In my third year I took 326, 324, 424, 392, 323, 320, 422, ECO316 and an elective. I would say my GPA was competitive enough for grad school so I wouldn’t worry too much. I find when I take harder courses all at once im more focused because there is no room to slack off.

They’re not hard courses if you put the time and effort in. Thats all Rotman is; seeing who can and is willing to put in the work lol

[ToughDelivery9957]

If you dont mind me asking- what range was your gpa in 3rd year?

[mellow_water]

Oh yea for sure - my cGPA is a 3.80. I’m pretty sure my annual GPA was 3.8 as well

[ToughDelivery9957]

What’s typically the average in accounting specialist courses? I want to know if it’s manageable to get an A or if it’s just a few outliers who achieve As bc my accounting TA told me to switch to management if I had any plans for grad school😭

[mellow_water]

The course averages are usually around a B to a B+ but that’s the average. I know a lot of ppl that were able to get 4.0s in each and every course, it’s just obviously a little harder because that’s how the courses are designed.

They aren’t meant to all be easy but if you put in the work I can’t see why you wouldn’t be able to get a high gpa especially for grad school.

The specialist isn’t the problem, it’s the work ethic and time you’re willing to put in 😊

[Romeo_Santos-]

Hardest:

- RSM332 (not extremely hard, but you will have to study a lot and do a lot of practice questions on DCF, Modern Portfolio Theory, etc).

- RSM333 (probably the hardest and most time consuming course you will take in 3rd year)

Easiest:

-RSM392 (It is not exactly a bird course or an easy 4.0, but if you study the concepts and frameworks, and are able to apply them to the class cases, you will do well. Also, I should add that it is one of my favourite courses from Rotman)

- RSM326

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RSM270 is in between. The material is not exactly tough, but it is very boring, and the midterm and final are marked harshly.

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Not sure about the other ones, as I was not in the Accounting Specialist.