First of all, his lecture is very dry and he just reads off from the slide. Do not expect him to teach you every details of accounting in the class. Basically, you have to teach yourself by memorizing all the concepts in the text book and do all the problems in the book. Hes exams made absolute no sense to me since most of his questions required to write an short essay. Even the simple questions like calculations or entering journal entry, he made it impossible to get a full credit because you have write your own statement to justify your answer. If he didn't like your explanation of the answer, you will get only a partial credit even though your answer is correct. His grading scheme is not clear and fair since most of the test questions were asking you to write an answer that would result in subjective grading. I wouldn't recommend any of his classes he teaches in UCLA.

As long as you read the text book, you should at least get a B. Slides go over key points of book but there will be specific things he doesn't go over that will show up in exams, so read the book. Work load isn't much, unless you read the book, then its a lot of reading. Do the practice midterms, I didn't even bother with practice problems from book. Class has 2 quizzes, final, and 1 memo project that doesn't take too much time. He is nice and helpful as long as you reach out. If you don't like reading and prefer doing intense journal entries and calculations then you should probably take Ravetch.