Vincent J. Schaze

Not as if you probably haven't gotten the point already, but this class is extremely difficult with Professor Schaze. Most likely you have to take this class so there's no way around it, so my only suggestion is to go to the Accounting department and tell them about his inability to teach! He is extremely knowledgeable, but that doesn't matter when you can't hear him speak!! So please, take this info to the Accounting department so we can spare the eyes and ears of future students! Professor Schaze must retire!

Mr. Schaze does present himself as a nice old man, and that indeed is what he is. I'm sure he's very knowledgeable in the subject matter of accounting, and he could be of great guidance to peolpe seeking this information. Moving on...if you want to take ACCT300, I'm sorry to say, but he's the only one teaching it. It's either take this class or take ACCT100 & 101. Vincent Schaze has poor speaking skills due to his tongue surgery a year or so ago, which makes me wonder why he's still trying to teach the course. He comes to class 10-20 minutes pass the start time, opens his book to god knows what chapter, and begins his lecture. He doesn't tell you what chapters to read, or does his syllabus give dates for chapter readings or tests. His writing is worse than chicken scratch, aside from just being inaudible. So if you plan on coming late to class, you'll have no idea what the heck he's lecturing about & your neighbor probably doesn't know either or is asleep. His tests are broken down in the following manner: 2 midterms (60% of your grade) and a final (40%). If you bomb the first midterm, the second can replace it if you do well on the second. The final is comprehensive (about 23 chapters or so). He doesn't really give out homework (which is great) but when he does, it's like he expects you to know how to do it. Basically you're doing the math & figuring it out all on your own. I honestly say, GO TO THE ACCT LAB & GET HELP if you take this course. Bottom-line: he's not teaching anything, but expecting you to know it already. GOOD LUCK!

All of the reviews couldn't be wrong, it is more than time for Shaze to retire. The first day that I was in his class, I was disturbed that he was still qualified to teach because of his strikingly low voice; I sat in the front row, about 2 feet (24 inches) from him and i have yet to hear a single word that comes out of his mouth! Everyone who sat in the front row had to skoot even closer so that they could listen. His lectures were also confusing and incoherent; no one could ever understand it. Cutting to the chase, he gives two decent midterms and a long, comprehensive final. His exam reviews were a joke; he never said clearly what will be on the exam. And to make matters worse, a few questions that were in his exams weren't in the book nor was it in the lecture! If you're a book person, this is undoubtedly your kinda class; the only way to learn in his class is to bury yourself in the book. On the sunny side, he grades on a big curve. Overall, Mr. Shaze is a "fully depreciated asset" of SFSU's accounting department and should be "debited" with any of the following: retirement package, 401k, social security and pension benefits.

IF you believe in the power of prayer, if you have faith in a higher being. YOU will DEFINITELY lose all of your beliefs in Schaze's class. No matter how much you pray, Schaze will not speak lounder or write larger on the blackboard! I seriously warn all students who are geniunely interested in learning or value their hard earned tuition to withdrawl, drop or try to change professors. IF you are one of the unfortunate ones, please, I urge you to get to class early to grab one of the coveted seats in the front row, preferrably in the middle of the front row. That, I stress, is the only way you might hear anything that whispers out of his mouth or see the chicken scratch that writes on the chalkboard. I was truly frightened my first day of class when I sat in the back row with horror when I could not hear a thing that came out of his mouth! Hint: If you don't read lips, don't sit in the back row. But if you wanna join in on the professor bashing, the back row is the place to be. I lost all interest in learning and most of the time I chose not to attend class. Instead I read the book and did the assignments on my own, or with the help of the Acct tutoring lab. Now that I'm done bashing, I must say that he does have one redeeming quality: he is a nice guy, just not a good professor, lecturer, or instructor! May God have mercy on you if you decide to stay in his class.

Well, folks, let me tell you how lousy this instructor is. I think he is actually the worst instructor I have ever met at SFSU. First of all, he can't speak. He always mumbles himself with very small voice. Please imagine: He only talks during the first 20 minutes of the lecture, and then he asks students to do lots of problems and exercices on the textbook for the rest of lecture. Which means HE NEVER TEACHES ANYTHING! However, his exams are not as easy as his brain. He uses grade other than curve. So most students get an average of C in his super boring class. THIS OLD GUY SHOULD BE FIRED! It is my true and sincere advice for the Accounting Department. Thank you. Bye-bye.

This is horrible teacher to take for such a hard class. This class is most students first encounter with accounting and if you have no prior experience in it, he makes it very confusing. His lectures and explanation of the material are very unhelpful. The only way to get a good grade and understand the problems is to join a study group with someone who has taken accounting before. He has a very low voice and mumbles alot, so he is almost impossible to hear. He also writes very small in hard to read handwriting. If you must take Schaze then make sure you get to class early and get a front seat at every lecture.

First let me note how pleased I am that I managed to get through this class somehow. The instructor repeatedly promised to "help us understand some basics of accounting" but did not seem to have an agenda that would help us reach this goal.

Homework was promised, but never given. It was up to the students to learn whatever they could based on reading the text. Lectures were almost always less than adequate. Usually they degenerated into lists of generalities that we should be prepared for.....(but how Jim, how?) The instructor often asked questions of students in the class, but upwards of 95% of the time were never told that they had given a correct response. Usually it was something like "that's not quite what we are looking for..." or "yes, BUT blah blah blah..." which would lead directly into another topic before the first one had been properly elucidated.

The only actual practice we had was doing an occasional problem in class...perhaps doing homework at home then checking our answers in class would have been more efficient. I can safely say that the instructor wrote on the board so infrequently that he probably didn't use up one half of a piece of chalk throughout the entire semester. Lectures meandered and mentioned but never digressed upon materials that we would be held responsible for later. Furthermore, the instructor is very, very, very difficult to hear as he always speaks very softly. Perhaps he could use some sort of amplification device to assure that his students could at the very least hear what he was saying.

This is one of the worst (and there have been a few) classes I have ever attended at SFSU. It was a complete waste of time, considering that it is a required course for many, and I can safely say that I don't know much more about the subject than I did before. The amount of confusion and frustration that the larger part of the class felt was unfortunate and never expressed to the instructor. I even met people from other classes that Prof. Schaze taught that felt the same way, and said so as they applied for WITHDRAWAL. I really feel sorry for you if you have to take ACCT300 this semester, as again, Schaze is the ONLY instructor for this section. GOOD LUCK!!!! (you WILL need it...)

The only positive thing I can say about the professor, however, is that he is a genuinely nice person, and that he often lets the class go early. Otherwise, BEWARE!

Mr. Schaze is a very nice person and loves his subject so he is redemed by these and other qualites. However I found his class to be one of the most difficult to understand and frustrating as a student. Mr. Schaze needed some kind of aid so students could hear but when the whole class complained they could not hear him because of his soft voice and low tone he said move to the front of the class. It is not that he does not care , he just does not understand what a student needs to learn and after this horrialbe experience i would be hard presssed to recomend another student take his class.

I don't even think he should be teaching. He is a nice old gemtleman. However, it is not relevent to what we are trying to do here at the University. During class, we can barely hear him talking. And he mumbles. Neither is he a good lecturer. Yes, he did have a plenty of working experiences, but he isn't using that experience to help us. We want a instructor who can talk clearly and express what the lecture materials. We don't want to hear his life time stories. We want to learn

The only students that should be enrolled in his class are the ones who have some kind of background in accounting. It is definitely not easy if you're a first time student in this subject. He speaks very soft and doesn't know how to teach. There are two midterms and a final. During review of each tests, don't even bother asking him what will be on there because he'll just go through all the chapters with you. He gives out homework once a week and covers all the chapters in the book. Unless you're really desparate to get over with your accounting courses, do not take him!!!

I will first say that he is a very nice man, he does want you to do well, But I would strongly recomed any student new in the business field to NOT TAKE HIS CLASS!! If you have had experience in Acct. before go ahead. He speaks very low, and doesn't give good examples. When reviewing for mid terms( 3 of them) he jumps around and is very broad with whats going to be on it. You don't know when assignments are due, or if they are even due at all! This is the first class I have ever struggled like this. If you do take this class- Good luck!

A good instructor who would be much more effective in a small class setting. It is difficult to hear him, and sometimes he seems to drift off what he was talking about. I did feel that I had to teach myself this subject. Because we had to read the chapters and complete assigned homework before we discussed a particular topic in class, I had a hard time doing some of the homework problems; by discussing a topic first and then assigning the homework would make this course less frustrating. He does let you know exactly what will be on the exams (three in all), and I found his exams to be easy so long as you knew the subject matter. He a not an instructor who does examples "on the board" and he does not give "simple" definitions and explanations. You can do well in his class, but you must be prepared to work extremely hard and study!

Listening can be difficult at times in Schaze's class but that's the only flaw I can see in his course. The text book is an easy read and his lectures are designed as a review of important subjects that we need to cover in order to do well on his tests. I like the fact that he starts the course with the fundamentals and principles that govern accounting, making the material easier to understand...not a lot of teachers do that unfortunately. His tests are fairly difficult but I think he does a good job of preparing us for what's going to be covered. It's true that we have to be absolutely quiet to hear his lectures, but we're supposed to be quiet in class and to listen. And a lot of comments have been made about his age, but with age comes wisdom and experience and so long as he has something intelligent to say I'm going to listen.

This teacher was probably once a very good teacher. One can tell his expertise on the subject but he is just unable to get it accross to the students. He does not demonstrate any of the problems on the board. His lectures go over the definitions of each chapterand assigning a problem in class out of the blue. You have to be able to teach yourself through the book because he won't do you any good. The accounting labs aren't much help either. They just give the answers to some of the problems. I hear though that if you go to his office hours he will help, but those are not at convienent times. The exams are what he tells you they are on plus a whole bunch more of extra stuff. You cannot hear what he is saying unless you sit in the first four rows and everyone needs to be really quiet. His light handwriting on the chalkboard is very hard to see even with glasses on. The sad thing is that some people get really upset because of these difficulties. You might want to try for another teacher...problem is the limitations on the classes available and a drought on professors.