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ACG 2021
3/5
Introduction to Financial Accounting
4 credits
Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer
Accounting
Weed-out
The accounting cycle, financial statements, and reporting fundamentals. Warrington's primary weed-out course — heavily curved with high-stakes exams.
Typical workload: ~9 hrs/week outside class
Do not delay. UF lists this in critical tracking for 8 majors, and 24 courses sit downstream of it in the prerequisite graph. Pushing it back can push back everything behind it.
Why students take this
From UF's official model plans and critical tracking, aggregated by TrackPilot.
Scheduled in 9 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 3 (sophomore year) and part of critical tracking for 8 majors.
Accounting
Agricultural Operations Management
Business Administration, General Studies, BABA
Construction Management
Finance
Information Systems
Management
Marketing
Sport Management
Prerequisites
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No prerequisites. Open to take anytime.
Usually taken with
Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as ACG 2021.
What it unlocks
24 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).
ACG 2071 · Introduction to Managerial Accounting
FIN 3403 · Business Finance
ACG 3101 · Financial Accounting and Reporting 1
ACG 3401 · Business Processes and Accounting Information Systems
MAR 3231 · Introduction to Retailing Systems and Management
MAR 4403 · Sales Management
REE 3043 · Real Estate Analysis
RMI 3011 · Risk Management and Insurance
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Career relevance
Accounting is the language of finance — IB technical interviews start with the three statements.
Critical for: Investment Banking Analyst
Fall 2026 sections
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Critical tracking for 8 majors
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