Amir Rozen

Horrible class! Two hours twice a week 8-10 pm is insane! Its dry and long. Amir repeats too much and has annoying nuances to his lecturing style whihc take time to get used to. The class does not need to be that long. The other problem with the class is that it isnt based on real-life examples enough to solifify the knowledge in your mind. I wish we worked more with financial statements etc. or the actual stock market to truly understand finance and how accoutning in applied in the real world. He is really helpful though if you have any problems. Just speak to him. Mid term was hard. Final was a bit easier. Many people pass/fail the class

Amir was the TA to Mesznick's Corp Finance class for the fall semester. He was never available for OH, and when he bothered to schedule an apt. he stood me up twice. He seemed embittered to be the TA and was condescending and reluctant to give out any help. Maybe he is a better professor, but as a TA, dont expect ANY help.

Rozen is a prof who oversimplifies the material. Although he is good at making the material understandable for all students, I felt he often spent way too much time trying to explain concepts that were themselves pretty simple. This made the lectures pointless to go to unless there was a quiz that day. Because his lectures seemed to be geared for junior high/high school students, the material he covers in the 2 hours can be covered in less than 30 minutes at a reasonable pace by a regular lecturer. Finally, his final grading scheme didn't seem very understandable. Although he initially had weights for each exam, homeworks, quizzes, etc., it didn't appear like the weights were actually followed when the final grade was given. I would suggest another prof if you actually want to learn something from the class and have your grade decided by a schema that is more elaborate than him eyeballing your final scores.

This guy is actually a really good lecturer. He presentations are clear, and he he adds his own perspective to the powerpoint, and to the presentation he gives in class. You can actually miss class, but he tends to give pop quizzes, although, they are usually when hw is due, so be careful. I always had a friend on the lookout, who called me when she thought there would be a quiz. the hw is out of the book, and his midterms are simple if you know the material. This semester he had to cancel class several times, not intentionally, but because, for some reason, it was just not his semester. I have to say this hurt the students. In the end, he gave the option of students who did better on the first midterm to count for 70% of the grade, because he covered such little material for the finance section of the cours.e In other words, the grade of the final didn't count. This hurt me, and i'm sure some other people who did better in the second half than the first. And he refused to hear out the students who were against this. He even suggested there be extra classes during the study period to cover for his absences. It wasn't his fault that he cancelled classes, but I think it hurt the students. Overall, though it is a great class. One should take it if you have three credits and 2 hrs a night for two nights out of the week. I feel he explains the material well, and answers all questio…

amir is great if you don't like going to class b/c he puts his lectures up online. honestly, this stuff is easy - if you have half a brain, you'll be able to learn the required chapters in less than a week. but, since we spend an entire semester, amir gives pop quizes (like 5 of them) scattered throughout the 3 months... all you gotta do is figure out when the quizes are and study for 15 minutes on 3 chapters right before the quiz. and you're set. at first, amir was a pretty terrible lecturer, but i think he got better towards the end of the year. the class is huge, so he doesn't like to take questions, and to be honest, some of the questions asked by our fellow peers are so dumb. it'd help if he were more approachable by students about the company analysis project, but he's a young arrogant banker from smith barney. he doesn't hurt if you don't bother getting to know him and study your stuff. since the class was big and there's some crazy ibanker-wannabes out there, do all your work (psets, quizes, proj, tests) well and you should be okay. if you want to dispute a grade, he won't listen to you...

Amir Rosen is the worst teacher i have ever had. He takes 2 hours (literally) what it would take me 10 minutes to learn on my own. A good teacher could teach the entire content of this class in about 2 weeks. Worse, his class is 1 hour and 50 minutes. I really think that they added the extra 35 minutes because Amir cant teach. avoid him at all costs. trust me you dont want to listen to him for this long. The content of this class is pretty important, so take it...just NOT with him.

Some kid asked a question in class, he responded, "please don't ask me any questions after we've moved on to the next problem" dude...it takes time to absorb the information and he was going wickedly fast. every class that i've gone to i've heard him scream at the kids sitting in the front. This guy tests on NOTHING he shows you in class. His sample problems in class are easy and his midterm problems are killer. and he curves to like a b-/b. I heard the other class was ridiculously easy. i learned jack from him anyway, why torture yourself and pretend like you're learning something...go with the easier prof...which is just about anyone else in the department. the final rocked everyone like nothing else. 25 multiple choice questions with at least like 4-5 concepts embedded in each. you can understand and be able to answer part of the question, but if you mess up the rest of it, NO partial credit. so it's all or nothing. evil i say!

This is the most practical course that econ majors can take if they're looking for a career in finance. This professor will also leave a good impression of the subject so as not to change your mind about the field. The professor is very thorough in his lectures, which are all available in powerpoint presentations. The two projects are also pretty interesting. In the end, if you do your work, you're guaranteed an A.

I thought Amir was such a fabulous teacher that I'm still considering going to Susan Elmes, as the department head, and suggesting that his class be video-taped for the benefit of those professors who may be geniuses in their field but who, if they took it into their heads to describe the workings of a doorknob, would insure that at least half of the adult population would never be able to get through a door again (just about sums up the econ. department for me). His lectures were not only clear, he not only kept up class participation in a way I would have thought almost impossible for a class with about 150 people, but he is just a plain good lecturer. He has a real "public-speaking style" that actually acknowledges that he has an audience to keep interested. If you hate it then I guess your in trouble but I really appreciated it. He speaks well, clearly, loudly enough and with as much humor as can be wrought out of accounting. His lectures are well-organized powerpoint presentations and there are no surprises or long, wandering deviations. He repeats information; not in an annoying but in a truly helpful "I want to make sure you're all clear on this" sort of way. As to minding the "Clear? Questions?" I can only say that in many of many of my classes the level of lostness on the part of the students is palpable above the silence and their refusal to ask the professor what on…

Amazingly boring professor, but hey its accounting what do you expect. He can't stop saying things twice, its so annoying it will make you not go to class. Extremely frugal on grades, doesn't give a crap about anyone or anything but his own personal time. *CULPA censor*