AFM 362Corporate Taxation

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• Overall, I felt this course was very badly designed. Of the two lectures each week, one is for taking up homework (be sure to go since they don't post solutions), the other one is a waste of time. Instead of doing a lecture on content, they post a video lecture and answer questions. Then, to fill time they go over ChatGPT and article reviews which are useless. And the slides themselves are so bad. They also throw so much content at you it's impossible to understand everything so the exams have a huge in-built curve (you need around 75% of all marks to get 100 or something).

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• The fact that we had to write out every homework assessment was such an unnecessary pain. The Q&A setup is a nightmare, and we had a Prof switch halfway through.

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• This course is the first tax course that you will take. It gives you the foundation for future tax courses, so make sure you learn it well. It's not too hard and the marks are generally quite lenient knowing that this is your first time approaching this. Do lots of practice (not read textbook) and take good notes in class, debrief the solutions, and ask questions that you don't get. You should do well in this course.

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• There's a lot of free marks from handing in hwk problems (10%), course summary and news article (10%) and participation (10%). Tip for participation: they say that "saying 2 things per class warrants a good mark" but that's a lie. If you only say 2 things, that will only get you a 75% for participation.
  The midterms are very doable (usually 80% average) but their marking scheme is bad. Basically you get your paper back with a lot of checkmarks (up to 64 checkmarks per big question). They add the checkmarks up, then multiply it by the "weight" of the question to get your mark. REAL EXAMPLE from my MT: Let's say you get 45 checkmarks out of 64 total checkmarks. If the question is worth 27…

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• DO THE ASSIGNED QUESTIONS BEFORE CLASS. They literally go over the questions with you in class. If you've done tax on your previous co-op term, you'll be familiar with 80% of the concepts, they'll just be more formally introduced to you now. Tests sometimes includes specific concepts/questions that you would only know if you briefly read the textbook, so read it before exams.

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