[Anonymous]

Let me preface this by saying I have been out of college where more intense higher accounting was for 15 years. Two years ago, I went back to a community college to really fill in the gaps of what I was missing. I wasnt working in the field but knew I wanted to be.
I took accounting 1, 11, intermediate 1, 11, taxes, etc.
Then Im studying for this test using yeager and cannot wrap my head around 99 percent of the things I have learned. One, I never was much of an “audio” listener. Even in college, I would tune out my teachers, go home and read the book and then get it. Most of my classes were spent staring out the window, on the floor, at the person beside me, or taking mass notes but not really GETTING it until I read the book for myself. Listening never did me a darn thing.
So I figured I would click off the video and read the book on trouble areas. It would be nice if the book would actually make sense. For most of this, I kept pulling out my intermediate book and reading some of that. That helped some.
Today, Im going over bonds AGAIN and tried banging out more MCQs. I kept scoring 40 percent as I completely forgot about straight line method. This was never taught to me in school. Heck my book doesn’t even mention it. I had to use another youtube video to “get it”.
But what really bothered me was I told my husband bonds were going to be the death of me. He asked me why and I grabbed one of my bond questions that I had typed out and gave it to him. No kidding, the guy walked away, came back 3 minutes later and asked “is the answer 7200?” He was correct. I gotta give it to him- hes a software engineer and this stuff just clicks for him. It doesn’t for me and I’m wondering why I even chose accounting knowing that math in general was my nemesis. However, I did give him the effective method question and he just stared at it blankly. Funny, the effective method is easier. For cash flows, the direct method is easier for me. Those are to be the hardest.
So the “simple” stuff is hanging me up. The more complex, I can breeze through. Right now, I am not getting me. And I forgot 80 percent of what I learned these last few weeks studying.
Im super discouraged. I JUST had PBO down in my head two days ago. Completely forgot it today. Im just overwhelmed, frustrated, and ranting.
Ive been so into this that on tuesday, a woman at work asked me a question. If the cost on a report was showing 4667.00 for 500 pieces ordered, and 4667.00 cost for 260.00 shipped and the SAME cost for 240.00 shipped; how could she fix it. It took me ten minutes to come up with a cost allocation and also realize her excel sheet was calculating wrong. I just feel like an idiot anymore. An idiot who does cost accounting!