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AFM 211Connections to Business Context

Faculty
Arts
Last listed
Spring 2023

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2023 and last ran in Spring 2020. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. S20

Ran in 1 term, Spring 2020 to Spring 2020.

This course focuses on developing the qualities and transferable skills necessary for integration, continuous learning, and professional development. The course integrates an understanding of business, basic functional competencies, leadership, collaboration, and communication skills to address a range of business decisions.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: AFM 101, 131, SPCOM 111; Accounting and Financial Management, Mathematics/Chartered Professional Accountancy, or Biotechnology/Chartered Professional Accountancy students

In today’s calendar

  • AFM 212 lists it as an antirequisite

Reviewed on UW Flow

39% liked it18% easy56% useful

From 36 ratings and 8 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • This course is very subjective and dumb. It is good that we learn how to approach cases and give us a sense of what CFE is like, but this course is just so subjective in terms of marking and very unfair. Different TAs mark differently. So your mark could be very low if the TA is mean. The solutions are very subjective also. It really depends on the marker's mood.
    Another thing is that she does not provide solutions for cases. Neither does Manning. It would make sense that she doesn't want us to have the solutions so people come to class. But she doesn't post it AFTER class either. So essentially no one knows what the real case solution is and cannot practice effectively. What's worse is…

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  • Gives a chance to practice a wide variety of cases. Exams are thankfully all on computer (and you can use excel). You don't really need to study that much for the exams as you don't know what kind of case it will be (this may be a plus for you if you find yourself crunched for study time during the exam period).

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  • Not a bad course. Teaches you how to solve cases which will be really helpful for future classes and the CFE. Practice the cases yourself and you should be able to do well.

    Aug 2017 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Practice the cases before each seminar. Friday lectures are absolutely useless since you aren't tested on that material. New venture team project is easy. Midterm and finals were fair.

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  • Easy 60 no matter how hard you try

    Aug 2016 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

30 posts and comments in 25 threads mention AFM 211, December 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2020

AFM 2a large courses? 1 point, 8 comments

“I'm headed into 2a in fall 2020, and I was wondering how many lecture vs classroom sized courses were there. The email said that large courses (like lectures) would be online. …”

u/smoIbean: “AFM 2A Term - Class of 2024: • AFM 205: max 45 people • AFM 206: max 68 people • AFM 207: max 45 people • AFM 208: max 68 people • AFM 212: max 48 people (if same as AFM 211) • AFM 27: 45-225 people • ELECTIVE: depends on the course - usually large (100+ people)”

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Comprehensive Guide to AFM based on my experiences 70 points, 26 comments

u/suh-dude_: “… Elective: 2B - SUMMER AFM 211 - Connections to Business Context: This is your first case course. You essentially learn to write a case. This is very important as you get into 4th year and MAcc. Midterm and final are both cases. …”

u/leea0526: “… AFM 131 replaced with AFM 132 MATH 109 replaced with AFM 111 STAT 211 replaced with AFM 113 AFM 211 replaced with AFM 212 AFM 202/203/204 replaced with AFM 20[5,6,7,8] AFM 341 - they changed it up in 2019 so it's more about data analytics and b l o c k c h a i n. …”

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Winter 2020

Winter 2019

Am I fucked 11 points, 17 comments

“Im a 2nd year, on winter co-op right now. I forgot to pick classes for my 2B schedule.. Am I fucked”

u/caneatalldayeveryday: “Can say I did the exact same thing for 3A because forgot to select courses while on co-op. Not messed at all, like the guy below said, you still have add/drop period on March 21 because there's …”

u/bw0732: “I tried adding my classes to the shopping cart now so I can enroll right away. However, most of my classes don't show up, even though I put in the course code exactly. For example, AFM 274 or AFM 211. Any idea why?”

u/caneatalldayeveryday: “… Though I just checked AFM 211 and there's a bunch of open classes so might be something wrong with your browser, maybe you didn't select the right ones, consider restarting your laptop/refresh the page or just wait. …”

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Spring 2018

Prof life advice thread 23 points, 14 comments

“A lot of profs like to end the term off with a few words of wisdom. Any advice that stood out to you? My personal favourite was from our cs240 prof: do your best and never give up. …”

u/leea0526: “"Take the rest of the day off, smoke em if you got em, at ease." - Thomas Manning, AFM 211”

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Calling out for 3rd and 4th year AFM students. HELP,ADVICE,TIPS....anything appreciated! 17 points, 9 comments

“So we just got our AFM 274 and 280 marks for the first midterm back today. 274 was a hard exam, but I could understand the marking scheme. For 280, they just have some tick-marks and the marks given. …”

u/Newnewguy2019: “… AFM 211 (with Nancy Vanden Bosch) was also a tough course because it demands a bunch of different analyses applied to cases. The final was quite brutal for us and it was my lowest mark in 2B. The only advice I have for this is to practice doing the cases again in class. …”

u/Sneakymist: “… AFM 211 is definitely my worst course in AFM (AFM 481 tied but at least it wasn't so subjective). …”

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