Financial Accounting!!!

Probably the most feared module of the first semester was, without a doubt, financial accounting. Although many of us were indeed not keen on studying it, it was a compulsion and one would realise its value only after entering the real business world. The program I had opted to study was BSc (Hons) Business and Management which was also opted by nearly 400 other students. The course was a sandwich program and was one of Aston's finest and renowned courses. One of it's best features was that, one would study all the various modules of the business and management in the first year which gives him/her a lucid idea as to what he/she is interested in and wants to study. Such a course trains us to excel the real world, as a true and successful businessman does require a strong hold over all the fields of business and management.

Getting back to the point, financial accounting was that one module that everyone cribbed about but never realised its value and importance in the real world. Around a month before the start of the examinations, we had a test on financial accounting and around 2 weeks later, another surprise test. Although both were not as bad as I, who also was definitely not a big fan of financial accounting, had expected them to be, I did crib about it, before and after the tests, to the other 400 students! Funny as this may sound, it was the one module on which everyone removed their frustration on.

The other modules included marketing, international foundations of management, microeconomics, quantitative techniques and organisational behaviour. Thus we were indeed learning about a variety of fields of business and management. According to students like myself, the best feature of the first semester's examinations was the fact that there were only 4 written papers! The modules of organisational behaviour and international foundations of management had only coursework submissions which we had already given in, prior to the examinations. Although the examinations were around the corner, we never felt the pressure, or rather, they made sure we did not feel the pressure. For instance, the night before the financial accounting test was the bollywood and bhangra night party at the guild! So you could imagine our states after the paper, with barely 2-3 hours of sleep, sore feet from the dancing, aching heads from the hangover and of course a sigh of relief, from having finished the test.

The exams were right after the christmas break and as of now, none of us were even thinking about the exams, as, at least in my case, I was trading in the -5 degrees of Birmingham for the 30 degrees of Bombay. What I had for the first 3 months at Aston were indeed amazing, but I definitely could not have been more excited to go back home!