Prof O’s website and related business is a new venture striving to provide excellent accounting and accounting related courses. The key theme throughout all the courses, posts, lessons is an “outside the textbook” viewpoint where lessons are delivered with wisdom, uses, misuses, interpretations that are correct (and why they are correct), interpretations that are incorrect (and why they are incorrect as well as my opinions. All are as or more important than the dry, traditional “learn the technical accounting neeed by a bookkeeper” then “larn teh technical accounting neeed to take the CPA exam” and similar mindsets so prevalent in accounting education. The same can be said for economics, econometrics, data analytics, finance and the other hard(er) business subjects and skills. I have spent months studying the learning psychology literature and incorporate learning psychology best practices into the accounting courses and lessons.

I first started teaching accounting at the University of Chicago as a teaching assistant when completing my PhD. About all I recall when I first walked into a room full of MBA students was that I really didn’t know how to teach accounting that well. Apparently I wasn’t that bad because a number of MBA students hired me to tutor them, and I decided to build a system to teach and help others learn, while also building my tutoring business. The results were numerous teaching awards. I’ve since focused on applying my teaching best practices to other hard(er) business topics including finance, economics, statistics/data analytics, etc.