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Thought I'd leave a review of Yin for Acct 701 and Hsieh for FIN 720.

Yin-Acct 701 - I think she uses the same material as McGee from what I could gather. Review the powerpoints and the text. The text is some open source thing, so it's not the greatest of writing but gets the point across. After week three do all the practice problems that she posts. She does Zoom sessions which are somewhat helpful but not absolutely necessary to attend. There was an extra credit assignment (an excel course) as well as a curve on the comprehensive final (ended up being 6 whole points). Not all that bad of a class. The exams are all proctored but open book/notes.

Hsieh - FIN 720. If you've never taken a finance class and also do not have great excel skills I would put this one off. It's some challenging math at times (statistics/standard deviation, NPV, ENPV, IRR, MIRR blah blah) so if those terms aren't familiar I'd get FIN 701 out of the way first. There are only 4 tests of unequal weight. He has some challenging T/F questions, most of the calcs are easy. He has his own "Readings" in a word doc that are the basis for the text. Somewhat hard to follow but helpful for the open book/notes not-proctored exams. All in I'd recommend him. He does offer one zoom session per module and is responsive to email.

Hope that helps!

FYI, I did find there is an LSUS MBA Facebook page.

Congrats! I just finished ISDS 705 with Gibbs. I can say it was a lot of work. If you have halfway decent excel skills you will be fine. Gibbs was very straightforward. Depending on the prof 705 could be very hard or very manageable. The text is Systems Analysis 9th Edition. I'm taking Yin next term for Acct 701 as well.

Here is a review of Darban, looks like he got good reviews for 705. LINK