Right Over My Head

When I was first looking at the glossary of all the accounting terms I might as well have been reading Latin or Japanese or Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. It was bad. The only words that I could easily understand were profit, loss, corporations, and asset. Every two minutes I had to ask my boyfriend (an accounting major) to explain to me what the words meant. It took me awhile to get through the whole list and then I was dreading reading all of the articles that followed it. Today when I finally started reading them though after staying away out of fear, I realized that they weren't so bad. I know it wasn't because I had read the glossary though. I think that just seeing the words used in sentences and applied to situations made a lot more sense to me than the straight definitions did. It kind of made me wish that I hadn't spent so much time on the definitions because just by reading through the sections I understood so much more than I did from reading the glossary. I guess the real test will come tomorrow though when I take the quiz and listen to the guest speaker.