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PhD Accounting Professor with 25 Years of Teaching Experience
Rick N.

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I decided to start tutoring after helping my son with his Principles of Financial Accounting course. I enjoyed explaining concepts to him in ways that are different than explanations typically found in textbooks. For example, borrowing money from the bank is like renting an apartment. When you rent an apartment for a year you pay rent in exchange for using the apartment. When the rental period is done, you return the apartment to the landlord. With a bank loan, you pay interest (rent) in...

I decided to start tutoring after helping my son with his Principles of Financial Accounting course. I enjoyed explaining concepts to him in ways that are different than explanations typically found in textbooks. For example, borrowing money from the bank is like renting an apartment. When you rent an apartment for a year you pay rent in exchange for using the apartment. When the rental period is done, you return the apartment to the landlord. With a bank loan, you pay interest (rent) in exchange for using the money. When the loan period is done, you return the money to the bank. I so enjoyed every time my son had another “aha” moment that I decided to help others understand accounting too.

I am a recently retired Accounting professor. I taught Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting throughout my 25 years of university teaching. I also regularly taught Cost/Managerial Accounting, Accounting Systems at the undergraduate and graduate level, Individual Taxation, Business Taxation, Information Systems (MIS), and Business Computing (Microsoft Office Suite).

I often taught accounting courses where most of the students were not accounting majors. The biggest impediment to my students’ success was that they did not understand how accounting applied to their majors or to their lives. I was able to use my broad educational and teaching background to make that connection and relate the course material to all of my students, both business and non-business majors.

INTRODUCTORY AND MBA FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
In financial accounting, instead of just focusing on debits and credits, I ask students to reason their way through the following questions. What are the underlying events that make up a transaction? Why is it necessary for a business to record the information? What accounts are affected? How does the information affect the financial reports? How can companies use the information to make better decisions? If you can answer these questions, the related journal entries will make intuitive sense.

MANAGERIAL ACCOU

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Education

University of Florida
Finance
University of Miami - Taxation
Masters
University of Miami - Accounting
PhD

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Business

Business

I have a BS in Finance, a Masters in Taxation, and a PhD in Accounting with a minor in Organizational Behavior. My areas of expertise include introductory financial and managerial accounting, Intermediate Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Tax I (individual and property transactions, Tax II (business entities), Accounting Information Systems, Microsoft Access and database design, Excel, Information Systems, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Management.
Financial Accounting

Financial Accounting

I taught financial accounting throughout my 25 years as a university accounting professor. In financial accounting, instead of just focusing on debits and credits, I ask students to reason their way through the following questions. What are the underlying events that make up a transaction? Why is it necessary for a business to record the information? What accounts are affected? How does the information affect the financial reports? How can companies use the information to make better decisions? If you can answer these questions, the related journal entries will make intuitive sense.
Managerial Accounting

Managerial Accounting

I taught managerial and cost accounting for the past 11 years of my 25-year career as a university professor. In my managerial and cost accounting courses, we begin by establishing why a company would benefit from gathering information of interest in the first place. Then, instead of applying formulas that students have to memorize, we reason our way through the problem. We establish the information that we know and identify what we need to solve for. We then use logic and simple algebra to solve for the unknowns. That way, we derive the formulas instead of memorizing them. This method helps students to solve related problems even if they look different than the problems in class.
Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access

I co-authored two editions of a Microsoft Access textbook. I taught MS Access extensively in my undergraduate and graduate Accounting Systems courses, including an eight-week database design and implementation project that I created. I taught MS Access in my Information Systems (MIS) course where students completed six basic MS Access assignments. Additionally, I conducted many conference workshops in MS Access for Accounting Information Systems faculty.
Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

I incorporated Excel into all of the courses I taught throughout my 25 years as a university accounting and computer information systems professor, even in courses that did not have a specific Excel component. The best way to learn Excel is to use it to solve problems relevant to you. For example, in my accounting courses I show students how to set up their homework problems in Excel and often create templates that they can use for these problems. These templates incorporate best design practices, such as separating data from formulas. Students can easily reuse the same worksheet to solve several problems by creating formulas that refer to the data cells instead of just typing numbers.
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Knowledgeable, responsive, and encouraging

I am so happy to have found Rick to help me during my graduate course. I approached him for some remedial tutoring in statistics, Excel, and accounting when faced with a class project requiring these skills (which were mostly not covered during the course). Rick got me up to speed quickly on these fundamentals, as my goal was to truly understand the concepts and not just go through the motions towards completing the project. He was extremely responsive, patient, and knowledgeable. Rick was thoroughly prepared prior to our lessons as well to ensure our time spent together was on-point. I will definitely approach Rick again for assistance as I wrap up my MBA program. In fact, I could see consulting with him on actual business projects, too, when faced with accounting and finance scenarios for which solid modeling and understanding are needed.

Kelly, 4 lessons with Rick

Patient and excellent at explaining

Rick is an excellent tutor. He was very patient, paid attention to detail, and explained difficult concepts very well. He was very flexible and helped me focus on the goals of my project. He was very reachable and communicative with messaging, always responding quickly, and fit in lessons as soon as he could in his busy schedule. I am an non-native English speaker and understood Rick well and felt very comfortable with him. I am thankful to Rick for tutoring me!

Kelsey, 6 lessons with Rick

Knowledgeable and patient Tutor

He is a very understanding, thorough, detailed Tutor. His explanations were easy to understand, and he worked through many of my questions so that I had a clear understanding of the material.

Leslie, 8 lessons with Rick

Knowledgeable and great tutor

Rick is helping me get ahead in my managerial accounting course. I look forward to taking more lessons from Rick in the future. He is very knowledgeable and has a lot of expertise. I learned so much just from one lesson.

Daniel , 10 lessons with Rick

Excellent tutor

Rick was very thorough in explaining topics related to Cybertext accounting. I was impressed with his depth of knowledge. He took his time and I didn’t feel rushed.

Dawn, 5 lessons with Rick

Knowledgeable and patient tutor

Great tutor!!! Knows his stuff!! definitely recommends for students who are looking for help In accounting. Rick has done an excellent job of helping me understand and apply concepts I have trouble learning in class

Mia, 6 lessons with Rick

Understanding and helpful

You were a big help in understanding chapter 5. Thank you for being patient with me. I was able to fully understand the material for my upcoming exam. Also, thank you for helping with my audio issues at the start. I'm hoping we can meet again.

Philip, 3 lessons with Rick

Thoughtful and Knowledgable

Rick was great, I will use him again soon. Helped me with some fundamental knowledge as I launch into my EMBA accounting class. He was a professor on the subject for many years.

Jason, 6 lessons with Rick

Two outstanding 90-minute lessons

Rick was a perfect match for my needs. He zeroed in quickly, identifying and helping me solve the issues as I tried to come up to speed in MS Access. He was very good to work with and an expert in his field. He was patient with me, guiding me to make the most productive steps forward. I look forward to more lessons from Rick at critical times. I am delighted to have found Wyzant as a source of very high quality technical assistance

Peter, 3 lessons with Rick

2022.07.31 Stellar

He is super comfortable with Accounting Informations Systems. REA Diagrams, Cardinalities, and more. Effective listener and efficient in his use of language to increase comprehension within limited frames of time. Highly informative sessions.

Matthew, 5 lessons with Rick
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